Wow, thank you! I'm just surprised any of it was coherent, since I was just writing stuff as it came to me without much order to it.
There's more, stuff that I was going to put and then forgot to.
Like, I never got back to the Goddess like I said I would. Salkiy religion is basically pantheistic, with several different gods representing various aspects of the world, but the Goddess is above all the others. The Goddess does actually have a name, but it is something sacred that salkiys just aren't going to ever tell outsiders.
Uh, there was more stuff about the roles played by Fourth and Fifth Ethret salkiys, but I think it would have been too long and boring. Basically, in the old days there were distinct paths of knowledge salkiys could take beyond the Third Ethret based on their talents and vocational desires, so for example one could become a Fourth Ethret warrior or a Fourth Ethret scholar or healer or whatever. Again, pretty highly specialized. After Border Glory, most of the salkiys who continued past the Third Ethret did it as part of training to become an arai, and there was no separation of different areas of study (since much of the original knowledge and spellwork had been lost anyway).
Also, your comment above about Serpent Folk life spans reminded me: salkiys live on average about twice as long as humans, so the oldest salkiys might be in the vicinity of two hundred years old. They go through puberty at about the same age as humans, but relative aging slows down after that.
And, because I say so, left-handedness is dominant among salkiys. :)
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There's more, stuff that I was going to put and then forgot to.
Like, I never got back to the Goddess like I said I would. Salkiy religion is basically pantheistic, with several different gods representing various aspects of the world, but the Goddess is above all the others. The Goddess does actually have a name, but it is something sacred that salkiys just aren't going to ever tell outsiders.
Uh, there was more stuff about the roles played by Fourth and Fifth Ethret salkiys, but I think it would have been too long and boring. Basically, in the old days there were distinct paths of knowledge salkiys could take beyond the Third Ethret based on their talents and vocational desires, so for example one could become a Fourth Ethret warrior or a Fourth Ethret scholar or healer or whatever. Again, pretty highly specialized. After Border Glory, most of the salkiys who continued past the Third Ethret did it as part of training to become an arai, and there was no separation of different areas of study (since much of the original knowledge and spellwork had been lost anyway).
Also, your comment above about Serpent Folk life spans reminded me: salkiys live on average about twice as long as humans, so the oldest salkiys might be in the vicinity of two hundred years old. They go through puberty at about the same age as humans, but relative aging slows down after that.
And, because I say so, left-handedness is dominant among salkiys. :)