Habersi

Names

• All names are poetic in composition, derived from the celebrational poetry written at the birth of a new child. i.e. Spring Meadow Resplendent in Dew.
• They usually have one or two “use names” derived from the poetic name. i.e. “Spring Meadow,” or “Meadow Resplendent”. They use the Habersi language for these names, however (use Persian, Turkish, and Arabic as inspiration for sounds).
• Names are in no way gendered.
• Family names do not exist. Traders do append the name of their ship when dealing with others of their own Fleet they do not know well, or append the name of their Fleet in dealing with those outside the Fleet. This is done using prefixes to indicate their status aboard the vessel or within the Fleet. So the admiral of the Fleet Vachen would introduce herself as Imira ra'Vachen, while the swabby aboard one of her ships would simply Eldir a'Vachen.
  • er - outcast, or the sole survivor of. (Status 1)
  • a - deckhand, or common citizen (Status 2)
  • zho - officer of a vessel, or a trader (Status 3)
  • che - captain of a ship (Status 4)
  • ra - admiral of a fleet (Status 5)
  • in'Tara - the Master of the Waves, the equivalent of a king among the Habersi Seafolk (though there is an equivalent figure among the Landfolk and the Skyfolk as well).
• Names may alter as elders of fleet or family commission poets to add to the birth poem. Major events such as marriages, gender transitions, great successes or defeats, etc, are considered good cause to add to the birth poem. New elements added to this poem may be added to or used to replace entirely the current name.

Origins

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Religion

• Habersi revere three Forces that they believe make up the world: the Land, the Sea, and the Sky. These Forces wear many Faces, and each grouping of Habersi have their own names for their patron Force - a Fleet has its own name for the Sea, for example.

The Starwise Arts

The star-wise of the Habersi are one of the reasons why only they have mastered the seas sufficiently to sail anywhere in the world upon them. The stars guide and protect them as they traverse the waves, and grant luck and joy to the vessel and the People of the Waves.