Submitance

Submitance is a cultural concept practiced by our forebears for their own protection when dealing with the authority of the Humans casually.
In practice, it is a method of carrying oneself in such a way so as to avoid the notice and ire of particular Humans, should any Otonomoi encounter them in the day-to-day. It involves looking down, hunched shoulders, and profuse apologies should even a slight insult be perceived by either Otoi or man.
It's a methodology of groveling and praying that you avoid attention, and then debasing oneself if they cannot achieve the first goals.
I cannot begrudge its development in ages past, given the relation between Otoi and Humans throughout history, where they ran roughshod over us with little consequence, a relation that remains in place in many nations across the known world, but where I do take exception is where it's still in place. There are Otoi out there, many in their later centuries I admit, that still maintain this school of thought. Old lessons are rarely unlearnt, I suppose. And yet there are Otoi out there, of my age and of my homeland, who flinch and bow at the humans as if those humans have a right to do what they wish with us even now. Even after all that has transpired to change change the dynamic between glass and blood, and for that I boil.
I cannot say that they are completely fools for the exercise. Regardless of any change, there are still many who lack true protection from the depredations of the greater devils of human nature. My anger is largely for the fact that such actions can still be argued as viable, and in other places necessary.

In much of the civilized world, relations between Otonomoi and Human have evened out. Of course, there remains inequality between us and the descendants of the gods, but there are far greater protections against th

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