Frigidfolk

Frigidfolk is a large ethnicity of people who inhabit The Frozen Plains - the cold North Eastern landscape of Elgidth. This ethnic group includes a variety of different races that live in the Frozen Plains including:
White Orcs and half-orcs; Humans; Goliaths; Arctic Dwarves; Aarakocra; Sabertooth Leonin and Tabaxi; Arctic Minotaurs; Centaurs, Dragonborn and Shifters.

Culture

Common Dress code

Due to the cold weather, the practice of wearing thick furs, coats and jackets is done.

Art & Architecture

Art differs from clan to clan but a style that is widely seen done is a statue or figurine making from bones and skeletons of beasts and monsters. This art is finely made and cherished which means even civilizations outside of the Frozen Plains have an interest in it.

Coming of Age Rites

Many coming of age ceremonies in the Frozen Plains either involve an adventure with an objective, like to kill a wild beast or monster or an adventure with the objective being to survive for a set amount of time in the wilderness. Some other coming of age rituals have a more specific, different goal. Such is the coming of age ceremony for the Skolkog tribe who value their literature and poetry. Their coming of age ceremony involves sending their youth on a journey to the Poet's lake where they're to write a sonnet and come back.

Funerary and Memorial customs

The Frigidfolk care deeply for their comrades both in life and death. Depending on the significance of the one who'd died the funeral ceremony would be different. For most common folk there was a simple burial in special locations such as hills or mountains or specific fields. In the cases of multiple deaths occurring at the same time, such as in battle, large groups of dead were placed inside funeral pyres and set aflame. For more noble, well-known individuals like legendary warriors or royalty, the custom was to send their bodies off on a large ship into the water and then have the ship be burnt, supposedly for the smoke of the fire to help the individual have an easier time of ascending. If a legendary warrior had died in battle, if he had fellow warriors who fought alongside him who died, they were often put on the same boat as well. If nearby water isn't available or if the legendary figure wishes so, instead of a burning ship ceremony they are buried in a special location where they've asked to have a statue depicting them be placed.

Common Taboos

Due to the largeness of the ethnicity, it can't be said that this is a shared taboo throughout all of the civilizations but for the most part - cowardice and not wishing to die in battle are seen as taboo by most tribes and clans in the Frozen Plains. They believe that dying in battle is the noblest thing one can do, so wishing to die in other ways is seen as cowardly and is discouraged.

Diverged ethnicities