Fiction:Union of Mecholife/Members1/Ravir Standing Republic/Culture

The RSR is large, and has several distinctly different themes about it's culture.

Respect and Honor
In a world where you can live for almost 400 years even without Somenamac, repsect and honor are the most important things. Blood fueds can last for thousands of years while spanning only a few generations, and as such they are avoided at all costs. They have a complex system of honor to abide by as a way of preventing unneeded bloodshed.

Greetings
First, when meeting another always assume they have more respect then you, and treat them as such. Use the saying

"Stand tall, be strong."

- Superior Ravir

"Know Right from Wrong"

- Inferior Ravir

"Forever Ends, Believe your Sins"

- Superior Ravir

as your greeting. Anything less, or mistakenly taking the first line when you should have taken the second is considered a great insult among adults. If a younger Ravir does this, that's fine, they don't understand the codes of honor well yet. If both are equal in respect then an added line is placed at the end to balance it out.

"And never forget the future."

- Ravir

In Battle
In battle, the honorable way is to always allow your enemy time to react, as well as to never use undue force against them. Fight in combat, but never use power the other cannot, for that is showing you simply want to win and care not for the other's ability.

When entering a battle, you first bow to the enemy, then you cross blades/weapons once. Take ten step away from the center, and turn around. After that, bow again, and find the others name so you can remember them properly at death (if they die). Then the battle can comence. When in combat, you must always give your enemy time to retrieve his/her weapon if dropped or knocked out of their hands/graspers. You cannot use dishonerable blows, like in a species vulnerable parts (pubic areas), but besides that and the rule of never using a power that is completely beyond your enemy you can do anything you wish.

Torture
Even in torture the Ravir have honor. You cannot use certain kinds of poisons and cannot harm the brain. You must keep your victim alive, and cannot try to make them insane. Forcing a victim into insanity is considered a great crime, greater then any superweapon or poisons or other dishonerable things.

The Great Gods of Triumantigy
Beleivers in the Great Gods (GG) are a powerful force in the RSR. They believe that thse gods, together, created all of reality and unreality. They beleive that these gods did so one at a time, adding to the universe as they chose to. Egar created time in which this Reality would exist. Enots created planets and stars to give the universe a phisical form. Erised created life to fill it. Rellor gave that life courage, Erised gave it desire, Khallahn gave it war, and Emit gave life suffering. Finally, Egaruoc gave the universe fate, to direct all the other gifts and powers and create something out of the chaos. Together, they created Reality in full, and are worshipped because of it.

The Great Gods are the following:


 * God of Courage: Rellor
 * God of Sufferage: Emit
 * God of War: Khallahn
 * God of Time: Egar
 * Got of Life: Erised
 * God of Desire: Efil
 * God of Fate: Egaruoc
 * God of Stone: Enots

Accended Children of Galiatogy
The Accended Children are the same as the Great Gods, but are instead though to be merely powerful children who tapped into powers greater then what this reality sustains. True beleivers in this religion are common, and many try to speak with their accended cousines using various means, but no contact has yet been made.


 * Rellor the Couragous.
 * Emit the Suffering
 * Khallahn the Warmonger
 * Egar the Timeweaver
 * Erised the Lifebringer
 * Efil the Loving
 * Egaruoc the Phrophet
 * Enots the Earthborn

Spode, the One God, and the God Who Will Come
These are the other 3 major religions, and there is a religion called "God of Gods (Onolagy)" which believes that all gods are faces and forms of the same superior god. Spode is obviouse, as is the One God and the God Who Will Come.