Canzian
Culture
For most people, Culture consists of the combined circumstances of their surroundings during their formative years, and in some cases the most influential time in their life. This includes the Land they consider home, the people they consider family, and the ideals and traditions they hold dear.
This page specifically sorts these Cultures by how common Canzians appear in them.
More detailed information on Cultures will be coming soon~
Native Cultures
These are the most common cultures of this species, created from any combination of shared languages, values, traditions, and settlement in certain regions of the world. Native cultures most often contain the vast majority of their associated species, as the world is fairly young and wild, not allowing for risk-free world travel.
Oasin
A never-ending cavalcade of various nomadic clans whose lives and livelihoods revolve around the mysterious Wandering Oasis.
Mkase
The rough-living ridgelanders, highlanders, and canyon dwellers of the most punishing, arid, southern regions of the Beanut Lands.
Ukamimba
Primarily residing on the southeastern coasts of Canzia, the Ukamimba have developed a special relationship with their spiritual selves. They often endeavor to reach beyond the physical world, even if it comes at a cost.
Familiar Cultures
These cultures are similar to this species’ native cultures, either in values and traditions or in geographical proximity.
Mau’kali
People who live in the tropical southern and eastern coastlines, islands, and marshes known as the “Edgelands”.
Hearthie
These people have decided to put down roots in one place, and they rarely leave whatever home they find themselves in. Most Hearthie are located in the Hinlands, enjoying their time with family and friends, and providing services and duties to their local hometown.
Yokee
While the Yokee have much in common with other Hinnish cultures, as they do a good deal of traveling, they usually have an established home, family, or ties to a particular place that always brings them back to the Hinlands.
Masquen
Blessed by the bounty of diversity, trade, and convenience, Masquen truly benefit from all the wonders of the Beanut Lands being easily accessible. All denizens of the urban Crownlands are provided with a formal education that encourages understanding of people from all walks of life, but often means Masquen aren’t as equipped to endure harsher environments outside the comforts of a city.
Milona
While Milona may not have the same comforts as city dwellers, they also retain a great deal of that Crownlander convenience. Thanks to a simpler, more social lifestyle, they are more equipped to get along with just about anyone, but most have not trained to be particularly capable in physical endeavors. Most Milona derive their traditions and values heavily from one of the four Crownland Regions.
Maybraun
Maybraun experience the Crownlands life differently than other natives, earning their convenience through neighborly connection and understanding, rather than formal education or regular trade with outsiders. Inhabiting the more expansive fields, evergreen woods, and mountain ranges on the fringes of the Crownlands, Maybraun collect and export most of the natural resources unique to the Crownlands, including the bird leaves that are used at the Imperial currency.
Foreign Cultures
These cultures are unusual for this species, but not unheard of. It requires a great deal of hardship for a person of this species to travel to, assimilate with, and fully understand these cultures. It is likely that some generational work has gone into this integration, or else a truly drastic event has brought a person of this species into this culture.
Kartaki
The people that live amongst the dense networks of rivers and towers around the source of the Kartakaum River, primarily densely localized around the city towers of Kartakai
Tenkabi
This represents a large population of the people in Torgalia and the surrounding Wilds. They all share traditional Torgali values borne of survival.
Altoval
While the comfortable and cultured Altoval live in the shadow of the Golden Days of Lovalia, they still honor timeless traditions of their elders and provide a heavy influence on the world’s educational systems, historical records, and the arts.
Greunval
The Greunval have always been the same: hardworking folks who value the small blessings of the rural areas of Lovalia, when the cold season is over. Many Greunval communities revolve around carpentry, masonry, and other crafts that make expert use of Lovalia’s unique natural resources.
Norloval
The Norlovalian people spend their lives without flair or fashion, instead finding value within themselves. Enduring the harsh frozen Wastes, Mountains, and icy waters of the deep north, these people are often found in rapt contemplation and reflection.
Danuvican
Danuvicans value personal achievement and advancement above all else. Raised to honor both physical regimens and educational routine, the Danuvicans are taught that stricture breeds excellence. Their unique ways of military and educational training has proven extremely effective against the standards of the wider world, but often causes them to come across as strange.
Nymbi
The Nymbi-kin are one of the most atypical cultures of the entire Beanut Lands, due to the fact that they never experience the outside world. While that does not make it a unique culture itself, the near-millennia lifespan of most Faekin Nymbi has created a strange, leisurely pace of life that seems to never focus on the future or past, even for those who happen to be of other species. Nymbi live in the moment, doing what they want when they want without considering consequence.
Wyndi
Though they may be the most worldly of all Faekin cultures, the Wyndi-kin still live their lives with a freedom and whimsy that brings inspiration to others. Spreading excitement and drama, the Wyndi are often seen performing in theatre troupes, engaging in the world’s politics, and generally interacting with high society and commoners alike.
Deltren
The Deltren people hold deep significance to their connection with water, and often schedule their lives around its importance, but have otherwise assimilated with the modern world at large, residing on land most of the time. The majority of Deltren people live, as their name implies, in and around the river deltas of the central Beanut Lands, primarily the Heartlands and Brittle Bog.
Hydren
The Hydren people are what most outsiders think of when they hear of the denizens of the Brittle Bog. Living near to equal portions of their lives between the water and land and primarily consisting of farmers, ranchers, and homesteaders, the Hydren people maintain communities that are independent, but still welcoming to outsiders on their travels in the Bog.
Tangleroot
The Tangleroots are the largest native cultural group of the Fangren, representing the vast swath of peoples that live within the heart of the Nettle Forest.
Wetwood
Stitched together from numerous small and isolated peoples that inhabit the lowland forests and coastal regions that were created at the merging of the Forest and Bog, the Wetwoods once referred only to the people of Gurbodden. The term has stretched to include all the people who live in the less dense region of the forest, whose close relationship with the Deltren people has influenced them with other worldly traditions without affecting their values of naturalism and respect for the wild.
Ghostoak
North of the Frostfoot River that bisects the upper regions of the Nettle Forest live the Ghostoak people. Made up of smaller tribal clans in a loose trade federation, these people survive as masters of hunting and trapping in the frost covered lands they call home.
Nolian
Nolians are a people who exist and benefit from the modern industrialization of Willonia, but who actively resist the existing Willonian Government structure, undermining laws and values that the Colonians have put in place over the last few centuries. Within modern society, Nolians are a minority voice who tend to romanticize other cultures, attempting to adopt their ideals and aim to influence Willonia to do the same.
Armadian
The Armadians are the small communities, sporadic towns and villages that dot the northern and western coasts of the Willonia’s fringe territories. Much less industrialized and developed than the surrounding lands, these people lack the inter-regional influence and government that most other Willonian communities have adopted, but they keep stronger ties to their traditions and culture from a previously seafaring lifestyle.
Bandy
The most widely-seen culture of the Hinfolk are the Bandy– those who love to travel, trade, and experience the world for all of its wonder. While they spend most of their time experiencing this joy of interacting with diverse people and learning about the world at large, the Bandy people still consider the Hinlands their home, and may one day return when they have had their fill of adventure.
Wonderkin
The more culturally assimilated people of The Grimlands, primarily made up of the inhabitants of Waldovia and the Steplands regions, but also includes the people in the wider world who still cling to traditional Grimmish values. They often find themselves pursuing a trade, craft, or occupation directly related to their own passions, rather than something that provides money or fits the expectations of others.
Outlandish Cultures
These cultures are the most improbable for these people, and most are rare for anyone outside of their native species. This is because most of these cultures are heavily isolated, may require a unique biology, or some other, odd reason that keeps outsiders from integrating fully. To truly become a person who is native to this culture would require some extremely zany set of circumstances, and a whole lot of narrative heavy-lifting on a player’s part.
Arcanican
Similar to other Dawi cultures, the Arcanicans hold personal and collective achievement very dear to their hearts, and rarely stray from their ideals of strict scheduling and ethics. However, the Arcanicans prefer to experience more of the world in order to further solidify their own understanding of their culture as it pertains the greater picture.
Nostrovican
Nostrovicans prefer to keep to themselves, not necessarily out of hate or fear of the outside world, but because they tend to be brimming with ideas, innovations, and ingenuity. They have no time for the silly outside world and its politics, people, or predetermined rules. Like other Dawi cultures, Nostrovicans have a love for structure and process, but they tend to have their own way of doing things that might seem bizarre to others.
Sylki
Uniquely linked with the Wonderkin of the Grimlands, the Sylki have developed their own sister-culture that complements and also challenges the views and values of the Grimkin majority. The Sylki people work hard to elevate the quality of life in the Grimlands and provide wisdom to their neighbors. They never underestimate the power of information, influence, and insight.
Merdren
The Merdren are the people who have adopted the most aquatically active life, many living and residing predominantly within the deeper waters of the Bog and southern Brittle Bay.
Colonian
The Colonians predominantly populate Willonia itself, the greatest fertile agricultural center on the continent. Their short life span and ambitious temperament have led them to multiple population booms. Characterized primarily by their adherence to progressive, industrial, and capital ideals, the Colonians do not seek to conquer other people of the world, but rather to elevate the whole world to a modern way of life.
Cavernkin
The isolated pockets of deep-cave smallfolk who rarely see the light of the sun. They have a strange and wild culture, created from extreme levels of caution, silence, and survival in the tightest spaces of oppressive darkness.
Greyrock
The more private-living people who primarily live in the western Stormlands area of the Grimlands. The Greyrock people have a particular affinity for elemental magic, as it has historically shaped their region, traditions, and beliefs.
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