Easterlings
In the lands of the east are lands crisscrossed with contradicting laws and districts drawn up as temporary solutions during times of extreme crisis, unchanged for centuries. After all that's how they've always been. Each noble and state claims direct descent from the same collection of ancient founders whose continuity it required to legitimize modern practices. These high level contradictions and bits of cognitive dissonance have created a people focused for the most part on the here and now, after all the past is a polite fiction used to justify action by your superiors.
Culture
Culture and cultural heritage
The Easterlings are a people descended from the Philosopher States of old Nysa. Their societies have collapsed and reformed dozens of times since. Their aptitude for quickly constructing organizations through ad hoc rules and positions is unmatched in the entire world. Though transitioning those jury-rigged organizations into long lasting states is a far rarer trait. Despite this they as a people have a great respect for their predecessor nations, and venerate them as fonts of knowledge, even when the members of those precursors held morals that would be abhorrent to the modern Easterlings. This has created a tendency for cultural conservatism by way of assuming that the past was simply a more idealized form of a present, rather than an entirely different culture. For instance the Ysian and Capetian understandings of their Nysan ancestors are so divergent as to be completely different cultures.
Shared customary codes and values
A common custom among all Eastern peoples is that of the verbal combat. Whenever any group of two or more strangers meet they will inevitably engage in a contest of trading insults and boasts, growing more exaggerated and implausible as the hours grow long and the drink flows freely. There are no concrete stakes for these contests, but do establish a sort of social capital for the victor.
Art & Architecture
While the tumult of the East's history has left the land of Ys and Capetia little time for the finer arts, they have sustained the most august of all crafts, the brewing, distilling, and fermentation of all forms of alcohol. Every Easterling community larger than a single family can be expected to have its own local type of wine and spirit.
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