Order of Sattoros

The Order of the Harada Sattoros is a prominent Maninist Order and voting member of Concourse. Their patron Harada is the Ailuttorutto culture-hero Sattoros, who in the legends of that people was the father of their race. Their headquarters were once located at Ritti, but they have since relocated to a complex in the port of Nahar. 
===History===
===Practices===
Sattoros is held to have exemplified the virtues of daring, fecundity, and filial piety. Family is of extreme importance to Sattoros initiates, and the Order has the strongest hereditary component of any of the Synothal Orders; not coincidentally, it is also probably the most insular. Inter-familial politics is of more interest to most Sattoros than inter-Order disputes. Familial alliances are based largely on marriage. Children of a Sattoros family are expected to accomplish some sufficiently great deed to impress the family of their intended; in these days, that typically takes the form of a large sum of money, though the more romantic types will still occasionally produce a lion's head or something similar. Initiates are expected to produce many children, and polygamy, while officially frowned upon, is unofficially winked at, in no small part because it eases inter-familial tensions. In a similar vein, Sattoros shares with the Alonites the practice of pseudo-religious prostitution - though for some reason the Sattoros version never seems to attract the same condemnation. 
Quite apart from its official creed as set forth in its Sequora, Sattoros has a strong association with mariners and the sea, likely due to its origins among the marine-focused Rutto.
===Organization===
The Order is formed primarily of numerous extended families, not unlike Faronun faeoria, and the most common means of entering the Order is marrying into a Sattoros family. The patriarch or matriarch of a family has wide latitude for dealing with family members, but must answer ultimately to the Primarch. The Primarch is almost always the patriarch of the Sittico family, the richest and one of the oldest of the Sattoros families, and has absolute authority over the other patriarchs. There are no universal aspects to family behaviour, but in general they tend to be at least somewhat peripatetic, although the stereotype of the vagabond Sattoros in his covered wagon is a considerable exaggeration. Members of many families spend much of their lives on ships, trading and fishing in the Nakalani and the Three Seas.
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