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====The Left and Right Hands==== | ====The Left and Right Hands==== | ||
− | One vestige of this federation, though are the Right and Left Hands of Justice. The Left Hands are universally female, and are roughly the equivalent of hired judges/justices of the peace. They are brought in by tribes when oath-breaking or other crimes have occurred, and asked to render a verdict and specify punishments. The People, as a general rule, don't go in for imprisonment as punishment; punishments are almost always exacted immediately and involve fines, corporal punishment, public shaming, and sometimes death. The Left Hands come from all the different tribes and are to some extent tribeless; they maintain their ties with their former tribe but are held to a standard of impartiality. The Right Hands are universally male, and are the executioners of the justice of the Left Hands. This involves both the tracking and apprehension of fugitives as well as the administering of the punishments handed down. As with the Left Hands, the Right Hands swear oaths of impartiality and fidelity to their commissions | + | One vestige of this federation, though are the Right and Left Hands of Justice. The Left Hands are universally female, and are roughly the equivalent of hired judges/justices of the peace. They are brought in by tribes when oath-breaking or other crimes have occurred, and asked to render a verdict and specify punishments. The People, as a general rule, don't go in for imprisonment as punishment; punishments are almost always exacted immediately and involve fines, corporal punishment, public shaming, and sometimes death. The Left Hands come from all the different tribes and are to some extent tribeless; they maintain their ties with their former tribe but are held to a standard of impartiality. The Right Hands are universally male, and are the executioners of the justice of the Left Hands. This involves both the tracking and apprehension of fugitives as well as the administering of the punishments handed down. As with the Left Hands, the Right Hands swear oaths of impartiality and fidelity to their commissions. |
===Language=== | ===Language=== | ||
The native language of the People is just called Speech. The People also have two other languages; Hunting Code and Spirit Tongue. Hunting Code is a kind of high level sign language/noise language/body language that the People use when hunting/fighting/speaking among themselves. Even tribes that no longer have anything to do with hunting or outdoor activities still maintain their knowledge of Hunting Code, although they are liable to have their own dialect that involves signs and codes appropriate to their own niche. For example, the miners of the Deep Shadows Pierced By Light tribe could communicate with the entertainers of the Grinning Blue Moon tribe in Hunting Code, but the miners dialect will also include light and sound based codes for communicating information deep in a mine, while the entertainers will have their own set of body cues and signs to communicate key information in plain sight of an audience without the audience knowing. Spirit Tongue is a strange language that spirits find very easy to understand (a Shaman using Spirit Tongue is at +1 to any Shamanic Pool) but is VERY difficult to learn. These two languages are closely guarded secrets among the People and almost no one outside of the People will know them. | The native language of the People is just called Speech. The People also have two other languages; Hunting Code and Spirit Tongue. Hunting Code is a kind of high level sign language/noise language/body language that the People use when hunting/fighting/speaking among themselves. Even tribes that no longer have anything to do with hunting or outdoor activities still maintain their knowledge of Hunting Code, although they are liable to have their own dialect that involves signs and codes appropriate to their own niche. For example, the miners of the Deep Shadows Pierced By Light tribe could communicate with the entertainers of the Grinning Blue Moon tribe in Hunting Code, but the miners dialect will also include light and sound based codes for communicating information deep in a mine, while the entertainers will have their own set of body cues and signs to communicate key information in plain sight of an audience without the audience knowing. Spirit Tongue is a strange language that spirits find very easy to understand (a Shaman using Spirit Tongue is at +1 to any Shamanic Pool) but is VERY difficult to learn. These two languages are closely guarded secrets among the People and almost no one outside of the People will know them. | ||
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