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"How could our maker return if he never left?"

"How could our maker leave if he was never here? And how could any creation take the place of their maker?"

A rather depressing people, their firm belief in a mechanical world whose maker is now content to let run through its paces has not won them friends, although it has not made them enemies; mostly, a sort of grudging tolerance is extended towards them, for their tendency towards fatalism makes them good subjects and, on occasion, tolerable rulers. Even if they can be somewhat dismal. Their most commonly used symbol is the four-point star in a circle; the four points are the four cardinal directions, and the circle the boundless knowledge that awaits if you follow the path of study. When materials require, they make do with a simple filled circle, a dot, to symbolize the fullness of knowledge that awaits the wise.

Firm monotheists of a sort rarely encountered in the inner sea until the arrival of the Dawic tribes, they departed the land of Yehid-by-the-sea and the city of Ariel millennia ago; their occasional efforts to resettle in Ariel tend to end in disaster, most recently with the armies of the west arriving to sack the entire damn city. Such is life.

They are excellent scholars and tend towards theoretical mastery of the secret arts of the Creator. Theoretical, because their leaders tend to be very scholarly and very old men who find the idea of actually doing anything somewhat distressing. As such they tend to be unworldly sorts, though it is not wise to offend them; a man who can speak your flesh off your body is a man who deserves respect even if he would rather do literally anything else, including what you want him to do.

Their women tend to handle the actual affairs of running their communities and liaising with the outside world, with the Rabbans only involving themselves in matters of religious law or on those regrettable occasions when the authorities require a man to sign documents, something they consider beneath them but will agree to do so they may return to their books all the faster.

Of course, most of them are similar to their neighbors; the primary difference being a slightly higher literacy rate. The world is not built to allow all of them to burrow into their books, as much as they would like.

Description

"How could our maker return if he never left?"

"How could our maker leave if he was never here? And how could any creation take the place of their maker?"

A rather depressing people, their firm belief in a mechanical world whose maker is now content to let run through its paces has not won them friends, although it has not made them enemies; mostly, a sort of grudging tolerance is extended towards them, for their tendency towards fatalism makes them good subjects and, on occasion, tolerable rulers. Even if they can be somewhat dismal. Their most commonly used symbol is the four-point star in a circle; the four points are the four cardinal directions, and the circle the boundless knowledge that awaits if you follow the path of study. When materials require, they make do with a simple filled circle, a dot, to symbolize the fullness of knowledge that awaits the wise.

Firm monotheists of a sort rarely encountered in the inner sea until the arrival of the Dawic tribes, they departed the land of Yehid-by-the-sea and the city of Ariel millennia ago; their occasional efforts to resettle in Ariel tend to end in disaster, most recently with the armies of the west arriving to sack the entire damn city. Such is life.

They are excellent scholars and tend towards theoretical mastery of the secret arts of the Creator. Theoretical, because their leaders tend to be very scholarly and very old men who find the idea of actually doing anything somewhat distressing. As such they tend to be unworldly sorts, though it is not wise to offend them; a man who can speak your flesh off your body is a man who deserves respect even if he would rather do literally anything else, including what you want him to do.

Their women tend to handle the actual affairs of running their communities and liaising with the outside world, with the Rabbans only involving themselves in matters of religious law or on those regrettable occasions when the authorities require a man to sign documents, something they consider beneath them but will agree to do so they may return to their books all the faster.

Of course, most of them are similar to their neighbors; the primary difference being a slightly higher literacy rate. The world is not built to allow all of them to burrow into their books, as much as they would like.