Culture: Wood Elven

Wood Elven

Wood Elven is one of Eyom's major cultures. It's reach covers 3661501 square kilometers in northeastern coast of Eyom, and is comprised of aproximently 28949663 individuals in urban centers.

Scociety

Art

The majority of Wood Elven's art is usually only commissioned by academics and universities. Artistic endevors are primarily funded by the state, while artists themselves are generaly treated as a means to an end. Wood Elven uses the majority of its art as a general faset of everyday life, primarily by remembering the dead. Wood Elven also uses its art for: celebrating life, making certain concepts easier to understand for children, questioning authority, examining cultural norms, and immortalizing key events of history and mythology.

Wood Elven's major laws relating to the creation of art are; may not directly criticize government officials, and must be authorised by all relevent athorities if the art is to be publicly displayed. Art is concidered to be taboo if it depicts violence against children, depitcs certain bodily functions, or depicts violence. Works which are either illegal or taboo are enshrined by those it resonates with, and dessicrated by those it provokes.

Durring this Cycle, the Wood Elven greatly favored the literary arts. They primarily focused on literature, with their greatest works consisting of written works taking the form of the account of the life of the author. The foremost artisan within this medium and time was the author space, texture, and forms hues, value, and colors poems with a structure that uses refrains and callbacks as a means to emphasize the importance of particular lines to the overall poem. This form of poem is almost exclusively used to tell a grand and epic story, generally depicting mythological or heroic events poems written in the fashion of traditional folk ballads, in essence, a song without music to accompany it. This form of poem is almost exclusively used to tell a grand and epic story, generally depicting mythological or heroic events plays consisting primarily of songs which have been expanded upon with distinct rolls and actors, usually to tell a story, but occasionally to recant events, or codify mythology and often with each song being written expressly to tell a part of the play's story plays consisting primarily of songs which have been expanded upon with distinct rolls and actors, usually to tell a story, but occasionally to recant events, or codify mythology and often with each song being written expressly to tell a part of the play's story I̊dwůh́ H́åch́ayḿ H́åhkah́ik Poland Gardiner Howfield, whose works are typically the first ones thought of and mentioned when discussing the Wood Elven's artwork of the current era.

In the Visual Arts, they primarily focused on print making, with their greatest works consisting of images created by covering a metal plate in wax, which the artist then draws in by cutting away some of the wax. An acid is then applied to the plate, which eats away at the exposed metal. Once the image is acid etched, the plate is carefully painted with inks and applied to other media via stamping. This method produces extremely sharp and detailed lines. Their art showed a particular emphasis on value, hues, and colors. The foremost artisan within this medium and time was the printer space, texture, and forms hues, value, and colors poems with a structure that uses refrains and callbacks as a means to emphasize the importance of particular lines to the overall poem. This form of poem is almost exclusively used to tell a grand and epic story, generally depicting mythological or heroic events poems written in the fashion of traditional folk ballads, in essence, a song without music to accompany it. This form of poem is almost exclusively used to tell a grand and epic story, generally depicting mythological or heroic events plays consisting primarily of songs which have been expanded upon with distinct rolls and actors, usually to tell a story, but occasionally to recant events, or codify mythology and often with each song being written expressly to tell a part of the play's story plays consisting primarily of songs which have been expanded upon with distinct rolls and actors, usually to tell a story, but occasionally to recant events, or codify mythology and often with each song being written expressly to tell a part of the play's story I̊dwůh́ H́åch́ayḿ H́åhkah́ik Poland Gardiner Howfield, whose works are typicaly the first ones thought of and mentioned when discussing the Wood Elven's artwork of the current era.

In the Preforming Arts, they primarily focused on music, with their greatest works consisting of a polyphonic style which is discordant in tone, while favoring moderately loud to very quiet Heavy sounds with movements generally making use of paterns created using melodies between six to eight notes in length utilizing subordinate harmony with a alternating rhythm, all arranged in a sequence of clear-cut units.. The foremost artisan within this medium and time was the musicisian space, texture, and forms hues, value, and colors poems with a structure that uses refrains and callbacks as a means to emphasize the importance of particular lines to the overall poem. This form of poem is almost exclusively used to tell a grand and epic story, generally depicting mythological or heroic events poems written in the fashion of traditional folk ballads, in essence, a song without music to accompany it. This form of poem is almost exclusively used to tell a grand and epic story, generally depicting mythological or heroic events plays consisting primarily of songs which have been expanded upon with distinct rolls and actors, usually to tell a story, but occasionally to recant events, or codify mythology and often with each song being written expressly to tell a part of the play's story plays consisting primarily of songs which have been expanded upon with distinct rolls and actors, usually to tell a story, but occasionally to recant events, or codify mythology and often with each song being written expressly to tell a part of the play's story I̊dwůh́ H́åch́ayḿ H́åhkah́ik Poland Gardiner Howfield, whose works are typicaly the first ones thought of and mentioned when discussing the Wood Elven's artwork of the current era.

Pop Culture

Wood Elven's popular culture is dominated by ceramics and music. These arts are made avalible to the public through the kindness of patrons.

Manual Prompt:How has changing technology impacted popular culture?

Manual Prompt:How has popular culture impacted traditional arts and crafts?

Manual Prompt:How has popular culture impacted attitudes towards the arts?

High Culture

Wood Elven's high culture is dominated by theater and painting. These arts are made avalible to members of the cultural eliet through capitalist ventures.

Manual Prompt:How is access to high culture restricted?

Manual Prompt:Who is unable, or less able, to access high culture?

Manual Prompt:What are the attitudes towards high culture artists, and how do they differ to popular artists?

Manual Prompt:How has high culture changed over time?

Manual Prompt:What subject matters does high culture avoid, and how is that governed?

Communication And The Spread Of Ideas

Manual Prompt:What are the common forms of communication, and how are they used?

Manual Prompt:What methods do people have to fact check?

Manual Prompt:To investigate or research further?

Manual Prompt:How much emphasis is placed on non-verbal communication?

Manual Prompt:What steps people might take to make sure their messages are understood, and maintain their original meaning?

Manual Prompt:What barriers and inequalities are there to using communication?

Manual Prompt:What legal and social restrictions are there on communication?

Holidays

The major Wood Elven holidays are:

  1. car spotting
  2. stamp collecting
  3. wood carving
  4. witchcraft
  5. mechanics

Manual Prompt:What is the holiday?

Manual Prompt:When is it held?

Manual Prompt:What does it represent?

Manual Prompt:How is it celebrated or marked?

Manual Prompt:What economic barriers are there to travel?

Manual Prompt:What social barriers are there to travel?

Manual Prompt:What legal barriers are there to travel?

Manual Prompt:What are the popular holiday destinations?

Manual Prompt:What are the popular holiday activities?

Gender and Gender Roles

Manual Prompt:Which genders are recognised?

Manual Prompt:How is gender assigned?

Manual Prompt:What are the typical gender roles and expectations?

Manual Prompt:WWhat’s the stance on equality?

Subcultures and Alternative Lifestyles

Manual Prompt:What subcultures exist alongside the main culture?

Manual Prompt:What subcultures oppose the main culture?

Manual Prompt:Which subcultures are protected by law?

Manual Prompt:Which subcultures are criminalised?

Manual Prompt:What alternative lifestyles exist?

Universal Fears

The top five most common fears found within Wood Elven's members are:

  1. Being unemployable
  2. Devastating tornados
  3. Government Tracking of personal data
  4. Loved ones becoming seriously ill
  5. Dying due to a careless doctor

Money and Wealth

In Wood Elven culture, wealth and money is seen as something one should avoid if possible. The poor distantly admire the wealthy, seeing them as examples of what they might one day achieve for themselves, while the wealthy rarly concider the poor in their daily lives. Opertunities for scocial mobility exist for the well educated, and Wood Elven communities are supprisingly balanced in terms of income inequality. Broadly speaking, education is avalible to anyone who can afford it, carrer options are avalible for most, homes and family-related infrastructure avalible to the vast majority of people, healthcare is seen as a right and avalible to all freely, and anyone with wealth can gain scocial or political power.

Manual Prompt:What beliefs or saying are there about money?

Food, Meals, and Mealtime

Wood Elven's members typicaly eat two meals, one at dawn and one at dusk, which are generaly eaten in solitude. Manual Prompt: What practicalities or beliefs have created this norm? Where is the impact of this seen in life?

Wood Elven makes extensive use of potatoes, beans, dairy products and seafood in its cuisiune. Corn [primarily sweet corn although flint corn is grown as well] is also widly used, notably in hasty puddings, cornbreads and corn chowders. Three prominent characteristic foodstuffs native to Wood Elven are maple syrup, cranberries, and blueberries. Traditional Wood Elven cuisine is known for a lack of strong spices. Ground black pepper, parsley, garlic, and sage are common, with a few "exotic" additions such as nutmeg. The favored cooking techniques are stewing, steaming, and baking.

Wood Elven culture has several prominant summer festivals, which are cullinarily significent due to a part of the festivles being reserved for use in a right of passage for youths who have recently come of age, which involves consuming a particular dish

Manual Prompt:What behaviour is impolite while eating?

Manual Prompt:What behaviour is polite while eating?

Manual Prompt:What superstitions are there about food?

Manual Prompt:What rites of passage are there around food?

Leisure

Wood Elven's members typicaly prefer scheduals which maximise leasure time, which is a pleasure enjoied typicaly by elites, and expressly denied to children, though plenty of average people still find time for recreation.

Popular adult pasttimes include:

  1. music
  2. shoemaking
  3. playing musical instruments
  4. proverbs
  5. skipping rope

Popular pasttimes for children include:

  1. art
  2. macrame
  3. basket weaving
  4. amateur radio
  5. chatting

Manual Prompt:How are these influenced by the values of your culture?

Manual Prompt:How are these influenced by climate and topography?

Manual Prompt:What restrictions on leisure activity are written into law?

Manual Prompt:What restrictions are based on social values?

Manual Prompt:What are the religious restrictions?

Manual Prompt:What are the wealth restrictions?

Charity and Wellfare

In Wood Elven culture acts of charity are generaly preformed on rare occasions, for reasons specific to the doner. Doners are typicaly seen as foolish by the rest of their culture. Donations are typicaly made to assist the impoverished, with notably less going to other groups in need.

As with all of Eyom's cultures, general wellfare is of excelent quality and reach. Food and shelter programs are ubiquitious, even if only to ensure all able-bodies members of scociety are healthy enough to be laborers. Programs to assist the poor with accuiring basic nessities such as clothing, tools for their porfession, etc are also quite common. These institutions are typicaly backed by Gnollish banks, though most nations have set up their own financial institutions to handle these programs affairs more effishently. Such acts are seen as a means of keeping scociety at large healthy and prosperious by limiting non-contributors to those who either cannot, or simply will not be productive mebers of scociety.

Manual Prompt:Who is ineligible for chairy or wellfare?

Health, Fitness, and Beauty Standards

Manual Prompt:What are the physical health standards?

Manual Prompt:What are the mental health standards?

Manual Prompt:How do people improve their health?

Manual Prompt:How are sickness and disability viewed?

Manual Prompt:What is the ideal body?

Manual Prompt:How are beauty ideals perpetuated?

Manual Prompt:What happens to those that fall short?

Values

Manual Prompt:Which personality traits are valued?

Manual Prompt:Which personality traits are disliked?

Manual Prompt:How are these preferences seen in society?

Manual Prompt:How do valued traits feed into life goals?

Manual Prompt:How are those with valued/unvalued traits treated differently?

Patriotism

Manual Prompt:What is expected of the patriotic in times of war?

Manual Prompt:What is expected of the patriotic in times of peace?

Manual Prompt:What are the consequences for unpatriotic behaviour in times of war?

Manual Prompt:What are the consequences for unpatriotic behaviour in times of peace?

Manual Prompt:What are the rewards for patriotic behaviour?

Manual Prompt:What level of patriotism is legally required?

Manual Prompt:What are some examples of extreme patriotism?

Diversity

Manual Prompt:What diversity is evident in your world?

Manual Prompt:What laws exist to protect diverse characteristics?

Manual Prompt:What laws exist against diverse characteristics?

Manual Prompt:What cultural prejudice exists?

Manual Prompt:What diversity is concealed?

Integration and Exclusion

Manual Prompt:Who is fully welcomed in your culture?

Manual Prompt:Who is expected to make adjustments and integrate themselves?

Manual Prompt:Who is still striving for acceptance?

Manual Prompt:How does public opinion differ from the law?

Manual Prompt:What behaviour will result in exclusion from society?

Manual Prompt:What behaviour will result in exclusion from society?

Manual Prompt:Is there a chance of redemption?

Aspirations And Goals

Manual Prompt:What are the big life goals and aspirations?

Manual Prompt:How are these encouraged through...

  1. Education?
  2. Employment?
  3. Religion?
  4. Expectations and Norms?
  5. Education?
Superstitions

Some superstitions common to Wood Elven culture are:

  1. Red clothing magically attracts projectiles.
  2. Walking backwards will let aberrations know where you are going.
  3. Opening an umbrella indoors will make your roof leak.
  4. Bringing a banana on a boat will doom it to sink.
  5. Sleeping with your head facing west invites plague.

Manual Prompt:Create orgins for each.

Bad Manners and Insults

Some superstitions common to Wood Elven culture are:

  1. Making people feel bad for not knowing something.
  2. Wearing excessive perfume.
  3. Having bad body language.
  4. Talking exclusively about yourself.
  5. Asking people if they have children.

Some commonly used insults in Wood Elven culture are:

  1. crybaby
  2. badgerfucker
  3. milksop
  4. roughneck
  5. douche
Heroes and Villains

Manual Prompt:List some historical heroes

Manual Prompt:List some historical villains

Manual Prompt:List some contemporary heroes

Manual Prompt:List some contemporary villains

Manual Prompt:List the scapegoats in your culture

Family Structures

Manual Prompt:Who is typically the head of a family?

Manual Prompt:How important is family?

Manual Prompt:How do the different generations live together?

Manual Prompt:How are family trees tracked?

Manual Prompt:How are marriages and partnerships organised?

Pregnancy, Birth, and Motherhood

Manual Prompt:Who supports the mother through pregnancy?

Manual Prompt:Who is present at the birth?

Manual Prompt:How are pregnant women viewed?

Manual Prompt:Who helps after the birth?

Manual Prompt:How does life change for the parents?

Coming of Age

Manual Prompt:When does a child officially become an adult?

Manual Prompt:What coming of age milestones are celebrated?

Manual Prompt:Which milestones are unacknowledged?

Manual Prompt:How is the transition to adulthood marked?

Manual Prompt:How does life change for the parents?

Manual Prompt:When are children expected to leave home?

Manual Prompt:What expectations are placed on those entering adulthood?

Rites of Passage

Manual Prompt:What rites of passage celebrations exist for:

  1. Births?
  2. Birthdays?
  3. Educational milestones?
  4. Religious milestones?
  5. Other life milestones?
  6. Marriages?
  7. Deaths?

Manual Prompt:How have rites of passage changed?

Love and Romance

Wood Elven culture holds the love between friends in the highest esteeme. Of the diffrent varrieties of friendly love, storge [Familiar Love, that of parents and child, or childhood friends] is seen as the most important and sacrad type of bond. The love found between significent others is seen as important, but nowhere near as much as storge. The love found between family members is seen as important, but nowhere near as much as storge.

Wood Elven culture favors triamory. Triamory is the practice of haveing two concurrent partners, with each partner in mutual relationships such that it is acceptable for any of the three to be with any one of the others at any time.

Manual Prompt:What are typical acts of romance?

Manual Prompt:What romantic celebrations are there?

Sexuality

Manual Prompt:What differing views about sexuality exist?

Manual Prompt:How public is sexuality?

Manual Prompt:What contradictions exist?