Eastern Lieo

Eastern Lieo is divided into sanctioned reservations, each with their own levels of power and operating systems. Children are reared by those who have been tasked as caretakers in the community and begin helping around the community as soon as possible. Adults are tasked with one of four main subjects; fighting/training, farming/hunting, child-rearing/caretaking, and resourcing. Despite the cold climate, the people of Eastern Lieo have a special resilience to it, thanks to the genetics which gave them scales for skin, and warm-blood. The combination has never been seen anywhere else in Ultimus, a creature with scales has always been cold-blooded, but tales passed down for generations say that at the beginning of the war, the ancestors found a war to stay warm permanently, their hearts full of determination and anger warmed their blood, and this was passed down to even the modern-day Lieons.

Culture

Common Customs, traditions and rituals

In the lulls between battles, it is customary for adolescents to participate in a field game made to filter through and pick out the most capable in the age group. This game involves co-ed teams, and the goal is to paint one of the spinal plates in a bright blue color, this indicates the younglings ability to maneuver around an enemy and reach to a point where they are most vulnerable.
In rites of passage, when a child is said to come of age, the child is escorted out to an old battle site where signs of war can still be seen. They are given a small number of items for this rite, perhaps a knife, a source of light, and small tools. The main struggle of the rite that the child must overcome, is survival in the abandoned site, with only the given tools and no help from the villagers, they must demonstrate hunting, cooking, and other key survival skills. The better they thrive during the passage, the higher their ranks are said to be; someone who made clothes out of their hunt and built a decent structure is more respected from an early age than someone who would just dig a hole and consumed all of what little they could kill.