Themes

Some themes and concepts which Ephemeral Respite hopes to explore are the following:

**age-grading

asexuality

athletic sports

bodily adornment

calendar

capitalization

cleanliness training

community organization

cooking

cooperative labor

corruption of power

cooperation vs exploitation

cosmology

courtship

dancing

decorative art

divination

division of labor

dream interpretation

education

equality: gender, racial

e.g. this thread: http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/female-monk-design-criticism

intentional character design or character design options that blur gender stereotypes please

eschatology

apocalypse driven hopelessness?

ethics

ethnobotany

etiquette

faith healing

family

feasting

monogamy vs polygamy

fire-making

fraternity

folklore

food taboos

funeral rites

games

gestures

gift-giving

government

greetings

hair styles

hospitality

housing

hygiene

incest taboos

inheritance rules

invasion

invention breeds necessity

joking

kin groups

kinship nomenclature

language

law

learning "appropriate" behavior

luck/superstitions

magic

marriage

mealtimes

media drives culture and science (cyborg vs bioengineering)

medicine

natural aptitude

obstetrics

penal sanctions

personal names

population policy

postnatal care

pregnancy useages

property rights

propitiation of supernatural beings

puberty customs

relationship

homosexuality vs heterosexuality

religious ritual

residence rules

self-worth, without portraying every player as an in-game hero to the storyline

sexual restrictions

soul concepts

status differentiation

steampunk

surgery

tool-making

trade

visiting

weather control

weaving