Life & Culture¶
The texture of everyday life in Terrun: how its peoples count the days, speak and write, trade and pay, eat, build, marry, judge and bury. One page covers each topic, with the differences between cultures as sections, so that the Sancturi, the Proturans, the Naher and the Silek sit side by side. Each people's own page under Peoples tells its history and character; these pages compare them. Most of the material belongs to the Fifth Age and to the Compendium of the Earlier Ages; the Fourth Age material says very little about daily life.
Pages¶
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Calendar | The Kalari Calendar of fifteen months and six-day weeks, and the year counts MA, DE, SM and AL. |
| Languages | Common and its dialects, Elvish, the demon tongues, the holy and dead languages, Eldritch caste prefixes, scripts and literacy. |
| Arcane Languages | The nine written tongues of spellcraft, from Antusil to Sylvir, and the peoples who made them. |
| Names | Elven four-part names, Eldritch prefixes, Sancturi personal names and clerical titles, and the secret names of the Assassins of Ghoresh. |
| Currency & Trade | Sancturi Age coinage, older coin standards, taxation and land leases, banking, and the trade of Proturas and the Riven kingdoms. |
| Materials & Metals | Metals as goods: the Sancturi Age metal economy, the Mithis metals and their alloys on the market, smelting, mines, stone and clay. |
| Technology | The lost Dwarrow machines, Silek craft and Goblin-draughts, airships of the Rift, Sancturi roads, ships. |
| Food & Drink | Farming and harvests, hunting peoples, the Silek diet, the inns and taverns of Proturas. |
| Daily Life | The working week, town life in Proturas, homes, family and marriage, education, arts, and the few festivals and observances recorded. |
| Social Order | The Sancturi castes and marks, honour and slavery; Silek castes and strains; the tiers and titles of the human peoples. |
| Law | Sancturi imperial law and Mord'ivarus, Proturan law enforcement, the laws of the Riven kingdoms, Naher and Boreal trial customs, dwarven Grudges, the Four Laws of Delvarn, underworld codes. |
| Death & Burial | Consecrated ground, pyres, executions, Grave Salt, and the burial customs of the Naher and Aeseans. |
| Demographics | The population of the Broken Sea in 704 SM, the Fifth Age races by number, and the shares of the Earlier Ages peoples. |
Festivals have no page of their own. The sources name no holiday, feast day or seasonal festival; the observances they do record (Godsday, the war-month of Marches, the Sancturi Great Election, victory sacrifices) are a section of Daily Life.