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cornerofmadnessSome of the characters really wanted to weigh in on this one so I’ll let them handle it and come back in later if something else needs covering.
Ethon Drake – I’ve been accused of being a clotheshorse. I do have a sense of style when I’m not in uniform. Men’s styles run more to loose tunics in dark colors with decorative stitching at the hems and necklines. I look great in red and dark blue. The fabrics are mostly flax based or from the Cisdipalla plant, a fluffy plant that grows damn near everywhere like a weed which is convenient. Trouser tend to be form-fitting and in more sedate colors like brown, grey, blue or black. My uniform is lined wool and hot as hell in the summer. More formal clothes are even more form fitting with button down shirts often made from the silk of a Lagan caterpillar and tailored suit jackets. I look good in suits.
Sverre Spicer – Being Yaarian, we don’t have any damn dress clothes or a reason to wear them. Our stuff is made out of wool, flax or leather, whatever the hell we get our hands on. A lot of times you end up wearing hand me downs that are more patches than original cloth. Clothing is made for working and hunting, not fashion. I go with clothing that hides my burns scars except in the summer because I can’t sweat right. And because I’m an actual guy, I don’t know or care what colors I look in. Most everything I have is brown anyhow. I guess a decade ago our clothing was whatever was fashionable in the rest of the country but now we make do. I remember having better options but I was just a kid then.
Charis Blackpool – As a princess, my experience is a little different. When I’m not in my uniform, I’m expected to be in formal gowns but if I can get away with it, I wear what most women do, dresses in cisdipalla or flax. Skirts and blouses are popular too and necklines have been getting recklessly low lately. We’re starting to wear trousers, usually wider legged than men’s. I do know the Yaarian women, like the men, have less colorful and more utilitarian garb.
Savaria Archana – being a Living Goddess, my clothing is different. I most often wear sheath gowns in whatever color and cut is appropriate to the seasons, pastels in short or long sleeves in the spring, brights with almost no sleeve in the summer, and somber colors with more covering fabric in the fall and winter. At more ceremonial times, I’m adorned with Goddess paint from the Arwada plant. It stains my skin blue. I almost always have it on my hands and feet in various patterns but for ceremonies it covers much more of me. My clothing then is usually very revealing to display the patterns, mostly halter tops and split-sided skirts. Of course in winter, that’s impractical. I have a furry tunic and kid skin pants and boots for that.
Sverre Spicer – Forgot to mention hair styles. For as long as anyone remembers, guys, Tasi and Yaarian have been copying Alden’s hair style, a waist length braid. I love my god, I’m a priest after all but I wish we’d give his hair style a rest. It’s a real bitch for me because I have one hand only and that means Mom or sis has to do the braid for me. I feel like such a burden.
Savaria Archana – Tasiana women tend to wear their hair long. All goddesses wear it long and often woven with flowers or strands of semi-precious stones.
Paivi Spicer – Yaarian women are more variable with hair style. For every one woman wearing it long, there are three more who wear it short. Short is more practical really.
Sverre Spicer – Yaarians use a lot of wild game in our meals, nuts and berries too. Whatever we can get from the woods. Lake and river fish as well. We use a ton of root veggies. I like them roasted but I miss spices. My family was in the spice trade before the war hence the surname. About the only way to get salt or any of the hot spices is to rob a Tasi town. We have honey and sugar grass but what wouldn’t I do for some salt? We do make mead and berry wines and beer when we can get into the grasslands to get the grain. Hops we have. Technically I’m not old enough to have any but I do like mead. Mom doesn’t know I sneak it and hell, I’m only a few months away from being old enough.
Ethon Drake – As you can probably imagine from listening to Spicer, the Tasiana have a stranglehold on spices, salts and grains. We have a much more varied diet and we do love our spices. We have a few dishes that will melt your spoon and we tend to cool them down with yogurt. Wines, whiskeys, ales, you name it, we brew it.
Savaria Archana – As Goddess, I have to take the first bite of every dish made in the temple kitchens. They are huge and make so much food. Of course it’s not all for me but for the priestess and the penitents and we do feed the poor. Still, I’m spoiled and I know it. I’ve never had alcohol though. It’s forbidden.
Charis Blackpool – I love the theatre and the symphony. I go every chance I get which being Princess could be every day if I weren’t so married to my job in the military. The Tasiana have rich traditions in both and so did the Yaarian before my father went mad and ruined it. Also I like carnivals. I have to go in disguise though.
Ethon Drake – I love to dance. Waltzes are great but I love the new music and the new swinging dances. I know the king thinks they’re raunchy but they are definitely for me. I’m an excellent dancer. Also we have a rich history in art. My grandmother was Yaarian and became a famous artist. Mom’s a potter and I wanted to be an artist like them. I’m good. I even had a few pieces in galleries before the King learned of my magic and took it all away from me and made me into something I didn’t want to be.
Savaria Archana – I’m not allowed out to attend any kind of amusements like this. I did get my mentor to sneak a radio in to me. I love listening to the symphony there and I love the scary radio shows. They’re fun.
Sverre Spicer – As you might guess, in the last two decades we lost our theatre, our music, electricity, radio, cars, musical instruments and who the hell dances?
Paivi Spicer – Ignore my brother. We do have instruments and we do dance. Okay, it’s nothing fancy like the symphony, whatever we can cobble together but we do have story telling times in the town square and town dances. Sverre can’t dance and he’s bitter about it.
Charis Blackpool – As a royal, my birthday is celebrated on Royals Day. All of our birthdays are. Our people wanted to celebrate. Celebrating each individual one got to be expensive so about a century ago the queen at the time invented Royals Day. Everyone gets off work, there are carnivals and it’s a lot of fun.
Ethon Drake – My favorite holiday is Longest Night. There is something about the cold, stark beauty of winter that I like. Sitting around the fire with the people you love and telling stories into the wee hours is wonderful.
Sverre Spicer – I love both the planting and harvest festivals. It feels like my time to shine. I get to use my magic in the spring planting which makes them all sprout instantly. Even now, with our towns broken, we still get out and celebrate the planting and the harvest. The harvest fest comes with wine and beer.
Savaria Archana – I like all the festivals as it’s the only time I get to go out into the town usually. Of course I’m terribly busy doing ceremonial things. I think the goodwill festival in the summer where people go and help their neighbors is one of my favorites. It’s not splashy but it does good things.
And I think I’ll just end with that. They had plenty to say even if it’s not really all the cogently arranged or even detailed.
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Ethon Drake – I’ve been accused of being a clotheshorse. I do have a sense of style when I’m not in uniform. Men’s styles run more to loose tunics in dark colors with decorative stitching at the hems and necklines. I look great in red and dark blue. The fabrics are mostly flax based or from the Cisdipalla plant, a fluffy plant that grows damn near everywhere like a weed which is convenient. Trouser tend to be form-fitting and in more sedate colors like brown, grey, blue or black. My uniform is lined wool and hot as hell in the summer. More formal clothes are even more form fitting with button down shirts often made from the silk of a Lagan caterpillar and tailored suit jackets. I look good in suits.
Sverre Spicer – Being Yaarian, we don’t have any damn dress clothes or a reason to wear them. Our stuff is made out of wool, flax or leather, whatever the hell we get our hands on. A lot of times you end up wearing hand me downs that are more patches than original cloth. Clothing is made for working and hunting, not fashion. I go with clothing that hides my burns scars except in the summer because I can’t sweat right. And because I’m an actual guy, I don’t know or care what colors I look in. Most everything I have is brown anyhow. I guess a decade ago our clothing was whatever was fashionable in the rest of the country but now we make do. I remember having better options but I was just a kid then.
Charis Blackpool – As a princess, my experience is a little different. When I’m not in my uniform, I’m expected to be in formal gowns but if I can get away with it, I wear what most women do, dresses in cisdipalla or flax. Skirts and blouses are popular too and necklines have been getting recklessly low lately. We’re starting to wear trousers, usually wider legged than men’s. I do know the Yaarian women, like the men, have less colorful and more utilitarian garb.
Savaria Archana – being a Living Goddess, my clothing is different. I most often wear sheath gowns in whatever color and cut is appropriate to the seasons, pastels in short or long sleeves in the spring, brights with almost no sleeve in the summer, and somber colors with more covering fabric in the fall and winter. At more ceremonial times, I’m adorned with Goddess paint from the Arwada plant. It stains my skin blue. I almost always have it on my hands and feet in various patterns but for ceremonies it covers much more of me. My clothing then is usually very revealing to display the patterns, mostly halter tops and split-sided skirts. Of course in winter, that’s impractical. I have a furry tunic and kid skin pants and boots for that.
Sverre Spicer – Forgot to mention hair styles. For as long as anyone remembers, guys, Tasi and Yaarian have been copying Alden’s hair style, a waist length braid. I love my god, I’m a priest after all but I wish we’d give his hair style a rest. It’s a real bitch for me because I have one hand only and that means Mom or sis has to do the braid for me. I feel like such a burden.
Savaria Archana – Tasiana women tend to wear their hair long. All goddesses wear it long and often woven with flowers or strands of semi-precious stones.
Paivi Spicer – Yaarian women are more variable with hair style. For every one woman wearing it long, there are three more who wear it short. Short is more practical really.
Sverre Spicer – Yaarians use a lot of wild game in our meals, nuts and berries too. Whatever we can get from the woods. Lake and river fish as well. We use a ton of root veggies. I like them roasted but I miss spices. My family was in the spice trade before the war hence the surname. About the only way to get salt or any of the hot spices is to rob a Tasi town. We have honey and sugar grass but what wouldn’t I do for some salt? We do make mead and berry wines and beer when we can get into the grasslands to get the grain. Hops we have. Technically I’m not old enough to have any but I do like mead. Mom doesn’t know I sneak it and hell, I’m only a few months away from being old enough.
Ethon Drake – As you can probably imagine from listening to Spicer, the Tasiana have a stranglehold on spices, salts and grains. We have a much more varied diet and we do love our spices. We have a few dishes that will melt your spoon and we tend to cool them down with yogurt. Wines, whiskeys, ales, you name it, we brew it.
Savaria Archana – As Goddess, I have to take the first bite of every dish made in the temple kitchens. They are huge and make so much food. Of course it’s not all for me but for the priestess and the penitents and we do feed the poor. Still, I’m spoiled and I know it. I’ve never had alcohol though. It’s forbidden.
Charis Blackpool – I love the theatre and the symphony. I go every chance I get which being Princess could be every day if I weren’t so married to my job in the military. The Tasiana have rich traditions in both and so did the Yaarian before my father went mad and ruined it. Also I like carnivals. I have to go in disguise though.
Ethon Drake – I love to dance. Waltzes are great but I love the new music and the new swinging dances. I know the king thinks they’re raunchy but they are definitely for me. I’m an excellent dancer. Also we have a rich history in art. My grandmother was Yaarian and became a famous artist. Mom’s a potter and I wanted to be an artist like them. I’m good. I even had a few pieces in galleries before the King learned of my magic and took it all away from me and made me into something I didn’t want to be.
Savaria Archana – I’m not allowed out to attend any kind of amusements like this. I did get my mentor to sneak a radio in to me. I love listening to the symphony there and I love the scary radio shows. They’re fun.
Sverre Spicer – As you might guess, in the last two decades we lost our theatre, our music, electricity, radio, cars, musical instruments and who the hell dances?
Paivi Spicer – Ignore my brother. We do have instruments and we do dance. Okay, it’s nothing fancy like the symphony, whatever we can cobble together but we do have story telling times in the town square and town dances. Sverre can’t dance and he’s bitter about it.
Charis Blackpool – As a royal, my birthday is celebrated on Royals Day. All of our birthdays are. Our people wanted to celebrate. Celebrating each individual one got to be expensive so about a century ago the queen at the time invented Royals Day. Everyone gets off work, there are carnivals and it’s a lot of fun.
Ethon Drake – My favorite holiday is Longest Night. There is something about the cold, stark beauty of winter that I like. Sitting around the fire with the people you love and telling stories into the wee hours is wonderful.
Sverre Spicer – I love both the planting and harvest festivals. It feels like my time to shine. I get to use my magic in the spring planting which makes them all sprout instantly. Even now, with our towns broken, we still get out and celebrate the planting and the harvest. The harvest fest comes with wine and beer.
Savaria Archana – I like all the festivals as it’s the only time I get to go out into the town usually. Of course I’m terribly busy doing ceremonial things. I think the goodwill festival in the summer where people go and help their neighbors is one of my favorites. It’s not splashy but it does good things.
And I think I’ll just end with that. They had plenty to say even if it’s not really all the cogently arranged or even detailed.
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Date: 2013-02-01 04:45 am (UTC)Ethon is a bit girly. Or just, you know, Into Himself.
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Date: 2013-02-01 04:51 am (UTC)Ethon hides behind being pretty.
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Date: 2013-02-01 09:00 am (UTC)One minor thing that struck a bit of a false note with me is Sverre's comment about being a few months away from being old enough to drink. To me, that feels a little too modern, or specific to our culture, or something. Most pre-modern cultures didn't really have any equivalent of a "legal drinking age"; in fact, since alcohol was a disinfectant and the only way to make water safe to drink was to mix booze in it, most people would be drinking (heavily watered) beer and/or wine even as children. (And in Europe, my understanding is that children regularly drink wine at family gatherings and whatnot, even today.)
Even if the Yaarians don't do that (if they live in the forest and have access to plenty of fresh water, I can see water contamination being less of an issue) it still seems like you'd get more of a slow transition from being too young to drink to being old enough that it was socially acceptable -- like, I could imagine adults taking a mug of beer away from a 6-year-old and going "No, you shouldn't have that", but a 12-year-old kid who's big enough to work in the fields would drink beer at the end of the day along with the other workers, whereas a different kid who is a total stay-at-home bookworm might have beer for the first time at a festival later in their teens ... something like that. As opposed to have a particular age when it suddenly becomes okay.
But like I said, it's a very minor thing; it just felt a little modern for the rest of the setting.
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