Dezabian

Dezabian are a Kemono ethnic group that according to legend, originated in the highlands to the south of their territory. The Dezabian are a highly religious group - and their culture is tied heavily with their native Safaism religion. The group is largely dominated by kemonomimi exhibiting the trait of a jackal or cat - with other phenotypes popping up but often marginalized from the very top of society.

General Information

• Primary Faith: Safaism
• Language: Dezabian
• Locations: Dezabia
• Minority: Hombaxia
• Races: Kemonomimi
• Inheritance Law: Female Preference Primogeniture.
• Slavery: Dezabian accept slavery and indentured servitude in their society. Slaves are largely employed as guards, soldiers, holy servants - with plantation labor being very rare after large scale slave revolts during the Silnarian invasion (The slaves mostly being Hombaxian who sided with the invaders in exchange for freedom).
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Cultural Traits

• Religious: Dezabian are highly religious and consider it necessary to consult the gods for many matters and to respect ritual.
• Communal Culture: Dezabian consider it important to be part of your community and to work toward their common goods, and to participate in construction of communal projects - outside of the urban area, that is.
• Libertine: Dezabian are very libertine about romance and relationships.
• Trade Master: Dezabian are masters of trading and seafaring.
• Intellectual Traditions: Dezabia is one of the world centers for mathematics, technology and philosophy, and arts.
• Architect: Dezabian architecture are advanced and famous - they however, do not construct pyramids or the like, despite their source of inspiration, and are noted for their grandiose monuments and temples.
• Coffee House Culture: Drinking coffees and smoking tobacco at a coffee house is a matter of daily life for many middle to upper class Dezabian, alongside mild usage of drugs. Indeed, it is said that an appropriate, moderate dose of recreative drugs could make one become closer to the divine.

Cuisine

Dezabian cuisine features wheat, barley and rice. Rice is the most commonly produced and eaten crops, with wheat coming in at a far second. Leavened pastry bread, made elaborately often with added sugar, are very popular, while flatbread are less popular than in Hombaxia. Olive oil is the primary source of oil in the Dezabian diet. Potatoes are rarely made.

In terms of seasoning, a wide variety of spices are used and are relatively inexpensive, with cmin, chili, cardamon, parsley and mint being featured commonly. Sugarcane cultivation is widespread and sugar is used liberally. Dezabian are also noted for the wide varieties of candies they produce. Garlic and onions are used widely with everyday dishes.

Dezabian diet has chicken and duck featuring prominently, alongside seafood in the northern coast. Lamb and beef are also roasted and grilled, but are not eaten very often by the poor. Offals and livers feature widely in diet - and Dezabian has no issues eating them. Pea and vegetarian dishes are extremely common and often fried or stewed. Foie gras is one of the most common luxury foods.

Dezabian has a long cheesemaking culture, with fermented cheeses and is often served with breakfast. Both soft and hard cheese can be found. Milk is often used to make different kinds of delicious desserts, and are sometimes used to make a curry-like dish with rice and meat.

The most common alcoholic drinks are beer, with other type of alcohol being unpopular or expensive and imported. There’s a significant coffee culture and coffee is an everyday drink for people of all classes - imported en masse from the Kingdom of Matta to the south. Both men and women socialize in coffee houses, often smoking tobacco at the same time. Dezabian coffee is sugared heavily and black coffee is seldomly drunk.

Dezabia's cuisine are based on Egyptian cuisine with a heavier usage of meat than modern time Egyptian cuisine.

Warfare & Tactics

Dezabian warfare is largely similar to that of the Hombaxian to the west, but occasional usage of war elephants from the south are added in. Camelry are much more prominent than horsemen, as Dezabia lack widespread marginal land to herd horses in.