New Havenites

"How did you know I was a New Havenite?" - Thomas "Pinkbeard" Northmount
New Havenites are the citizens of the Dominion of New Haven, in Tyrrus. This area is saturated in magical energy due to a phenomenon that happened in Drakevale during the Worldshaking, causing a lot of the ground to warp, shift, and, in some places, float.
New Havenites are innately affected by the magic of the Dominion. They are born with unnatural and vivid hair and eye colours, often blue, purple, or green. Generally, this becomes less vivid the further from New Haven you go.
New Havenites are mostly descended from refugees from Old Haven, who were themselves descended from the followers of Zythia when she first created Tyrrus.
== Culture ==
In general, New Havenites are energetic and optimistic, possibly due to the general brightness of the city.
In New Haven and its surrounding towns, magic users are treated with great respect and reverence. Mages are given elevated positions in society, and there is a distinct divide between magic users and non-magic users. In the outermost settlements, where they've never seen magic used, the average villager would be afraid to meet the gaze of any mage, even an apprentice.
In New Haven, knowledge is power, and as such it is highly prized. It is a massive faux pas to teach anything for free, and in some cases it can get you arrested. Nevertheless, New Havenites within the city itself are almost all very well educated in mundane matters at least, though magical education is an expense not many can afford.
Unlike Erdannians, the New Havenites have a great respect for the wilderness and generally try to preserve their local environment.
New Havenites can be incredibly deceptive and underhanded, especially amongst the Magocracy, where deceiving one another is practically a sport.
=== Cuisine & Fashion ===
New Havenite cuisine is based on lots of small meals, usually containing different kinds of meats, cheeses, breads and vegetables.
A traditional New Haven dish is Drake Slayer's Dinner, chunks of grilled drake meat coated in gravy and cheese, and eaten with small hard slices of bread.
New Havenites tend to wear bright and colourful clothes, often with long jackets and scarves. Their clothing is often reminiscent of the traditional depiction of a wizard, with large cloth robes, which can make them seem archaic to other cultures.