Raised Heteri

If you were raised Heteri...

Home & Food

• Your largest meal is the evening.
• You don't consider dogs or horses to be food. Goats, swine, eggs, fowl, and a variety of root vegetables are common ingredients.
• Killing your own food is not uncommon, and if you're male, you've certainly killed your share on the hunt.
• You eat around a fire pit, sitting on the floor or a blanket.
• Wines and ales are common beverages. Smoking pipes during a meal is common, and it is considered impolite not to offer your smoking herbs to others.
• You have an outhouse of some variety. Soil inside your hut/house/tent? Yuck.

Work & Travel

• You've been riding a horse since you could stand. Unless you're a member of a farming clan, it's rare that you've not been a day or two's away from home in any given month.
• A couple times a year you travel a week's ride for clan gathering. You may have been even farther once or twice for larger tribe meets.
• You've probably inherited the skills and job of the father, and his clan.

Weather

• In Ghikarn'gai, the winters are wet and the summers hot and dry.
• Cold is the temperature when you wear gloves. Hot is when you don't need a fire at night.

Entertainment

• Stories and songs are sung about the fire. Adults play drinking games to see how can recite their lineage the furthest back. You know tales of your tribe and can name a few Heteri Kings.
• Everyone sings. Most adolescents can strum a tune on a stringed instrument.

Weapons and Warfare

• You know how to use a bow, even if you're a city boy. You're probably a decent shot from a horse.
• If your from a migratory clan, you own a sword or an axe, and can use it. You dream of having a proper Heteri Broadsword like the Vuhwul (or other leader)
• You may have killed a man, especially if you live along the border counties.