Zaman

Within the wilds of Zaman, the detlimse race claims its origin. Although the Zamanites are not as unwelcoming to outsiders as their neighbors in Felddun, foreigners tend to stick out in the insular, monoethnic culture like a sore thumb regardless. In Zaman, nature-based magic is revered as the highest form of power imaginable. Almost every community, no matter how small, will have at least one "wildcaller" -- the closest Standard term might be "druid," though not all wildcallers can be properly classified as druids. Wildcallers may have different ways they derive their magic, but they are all considered to be vitally important in discerning the will of the land and protecting the community from natural disasters. Zamanites live as part of the land; regardless if their community is roaming or stationary, they tend to seek to make their mark on the world as "temporary" as possible, a notion that foreigners tend to consider ironic for the long lifespan of the detlimse race.
Zamanites segregate themselves by gender; the primary exception is children who are still with a parent, though they will eventually be expected to leave and go to a "gender-appropriate" community once they reach adulthood, or even sooner in some cases. Some fringe cultures on the borders of Naji and Felddun do not enforce this segregation as heavily, but the central and coastal parts of the nation view excess mingling of genders as improper and against the ways of nature. Animals native to Zaman are possibly the cultural origin of this practice; Zamanite animal species are mostly solitary or live in groups that are predominately one sex, such as a herd of herbivores that will have only one male and will otherwise be females and their young. The Zamanite view of gender is whatever the individual identifies as; consequently, those who identify with no gender will be expected to have their own community, and those who identify with both might go between communities or feel most at home in the non-segregated border communities.
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