Aravat

Culture

Culture and cultural heritage

Aravat High Society In aravat high society there's always a large amount of servants, usually those of a smaller clan will send their children to them for money (and less financial trouble to guarantee a child's protection and education) Most rich aravats will have an abundance of luxury goods and furniture. On top of the buisnesses they spend time with hobbies such as fine arts and hunting. There's also many who order collectables and millions of dollars worth of stranger items.

Shared customary codes and values

The aravat people are devoted to their family, hierarchy, and honor.

Art & Architecture

Porcelain originates within the high classes of the Vetran Empire which was mostly ruled by aravat families. These secrets are largely kept within the descendants of those families and their servants. Many of these families thrive off of the old art style and use it to show off wealth and power, while also being a good way of filling pockets due to royalty wanting them.

Common Customs, traditions and rituals

Poetic Traditions
There is a long tradition of compex poetry that are hard to decipher from an outsider. It falls into a condition of vague references among them. There is also a rich tradition of flyting, a swift battle of wits in which competitors insult eachother using
A traditional dinner
In Aravat culture consists of everyone gathering together to have a banquet. Everyone grabs food at their own pace, not served in various courses. Most foods are served as 'sliders' or large bowls that have things like soup in them. Dinners are expected to be a social event, everyone stands around talking in a very informal way.
Aravat Child Gifting
Sometimes an aravat clan will give away one of their children to an allied clan or friend who can take care of them, usually as a reward for a great service or political gain. One may not use their gifted child in military service or intentionally put them in harms way. This practice is most common among the poorer clans toward the richer ones.
Yadleck
A holiday that celebrates the dead. It lasts 8 days in total, the 4 days being the mourning of those for gotten and the next 4 celebrate the remembered.
The first 4 days, the 'mouring period' is acknowledged by fasting and telling tales of what might have been.
The next 4 days are the 'joy period' where there are lots of plays and storytellers recounting the tales of the remembered dead.

Funerary and Memorial customs

When an Aravat dies a book is written about them by the clan historian.

Related Organizations

• Mordesent