Greater Pass Stenza
The Greater Pass Stenza were best known for their spiritual know-how, especially in relation to the Snow Warrior and Snow Pups, although in recent years the attitude has shifted into viewing Greater Pass people as somewhat backwards and superstitious. However, the Greater Pass people still take pride in their ancient traditions and stories, and their customs are thriving.
Naming Traditions
Feminine names
Many feminine names in the Greater Pass end in -o.
Other names
Many of the names of the Snow Pups evolved out of an ancient form of the Greater Pass dialect, although the names do not follow an ordinary sense of logic, due to the Snow Pups being seen more as embodiments of specific natural phenomena.
Culture
Culture and cultural heritage
The Greater Pass clans have a long tradition of relations with the entities that live in the Frozen Wastes, most famously the Snow Warrior and his Pups, and have rich bodies of both childlore and other customs.
Art & Architecture
Greater Pass weavers are best known for satins with a high harness count (eight on average), which drape well and were once used as Insulating Mesh before the invention of the Automated Mesh Weaving Machine.
Common Customs, traditions and rituals
Birth & Baptismal Rites
Coming of Age Rites
Funerary and Memorial customs
Common Myths and Legends
Historical figures
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Encompassed species
Related Organizations
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Languages spoken
I like that these guys are the more traditional of the Stenza, even if they're seen as superstitious. Their lore is interesting.
I have such a blast with this group of Stenza honestly. Between them and the Low Pass folks they've gotten a lot of my mental real estate these days (probably helps that prominent characters in my book are from these groups). I had an initial idea of them and their land as like "Space Appalachia", somewhere stereotyped as rustic, with quaint ways that they keep to stubbornly (or "Space Ireland", given the high prominence of their beliefs in their culture). So these are the people you go to if you run into a specific kind of problem that cannot be rationalized or explained away (which in a way reminds me of what I heard once that even other denominations of Christianity sometimes say "if you need an exorcist see the Catholics").