[Theori]

• As a remarkably physical culture, it is not uncommon for the Rhoynish to settle minor arguments through arm wrestling or racing, the nature of the challenge determined by the challenged party. Greater disagreements are often settled via wrestling or armed combat.
  
• Rhoynish are very communal, especially due to their low birth rate. As a result, many Rhoynish are part of a Clan, a collection of several families that are tied together by geographical location or choice. Clan bonds amongst the Rhoynish are very strong; children often consider each other siblings, regardless of blood relation.
  
• The Rhoynish are essentially a nomadic people, as as such their history in mainly passed down via the elders of a clan orally. This also often expressed through singing and dancing.
  
• Rhoynish children are gifted a silver armring when they reach the age of twelve to reflect their beginning on the path to adulthood. The rite of passage into adulthood itself -undertaken at the age of nineteen- is to last twelve days in a forest by themselves, during which they must prevent their armring being taken by other participating members of the Clan. Failing this test is uncommon, but those who do may try again after a month. Success in this rite results in the armring being replaced with a golden one. Following the Conquest, many such armrings were looted from dead Rhoynish by First Light soldiers.
  
• Rhoynish often tattoo each other to reflect clan affiliation, notable deeds, and victories in combat. It is considered shameful to lack any such tattoos past the age of twenty three. Wearing the mark of a Clan when one does not belong to it is an extreme taboo amongst the Rhoynish, and is harshly punished.
  
• Rhoynish warriors paint their face with the symbol of their clan before entering combat. 
  
• Punishments amongst the people of Rhoynur for acts considered dishonourable vary from clan to clan. In minor cases, the dishonoured is sometimes required to shave their head or eyebrows. In more serious cases, the punishments are usually death or being rendered clan-less, a punishment many Rhoynish consider worse than death.
  
• Rhoynish cultural dances commonly involve a dancer's magic as well as physical movements.
  
• Whilst aware of and appropriately respectful of Angels, the people of Rhoynur chiefly worship their ancestors -as examples to both follow and avoid- and the Divine Spirits, with it being common for a clan to have a Patron Spirit they follow in particular. The Rhoynish faith is more on a person-by-person base than the Essharan faith, and lacks a formal clergy aside from a handful of Priestesses, who serve more as spiritual advisors to the Clans than an actual authority.
  

Festivals and Celebrations

• The Clans of Rhoynur each have their own celebrations, often including one for their patron spirit, if applicable. These commonly entail the telling of creation myths, and several other folk stories of dubious accuracy applied to the spirit being celebrated. Primordials are quite often the protagonists in these stories, granted something of a demi-god status within the Rhoynish culture.
  
• The Festival of Natasa in a universally celebrated occasion amongst the Rhoynish. Occuring once every five years, it is held in honour of Natasa Dayndros' defeat of Barsburg's finest, and the resulting freedom of the Rhoynish from foreign control. It usually involves athletic and martial contests, as well as singing and dancing. Festival-goers also paint themselves with the symbol of the Dayndros Clan, a rare exception to the taboo of wearing a Clanmark without belonging to the clan. In fact, it is only permitted in this case because the Dayndros Clan Elders permitted it as a way of honouring their famous ancestor. Given its connotation to freedom from foreign influence, this tradition was banned by Queen Ariadni II as part of the Treaty of Hessalia.