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==Religion== | ==Religion== | ||
Most believe in a gigantic mystic bird of living flames. They call Her the Pho'Nix and She was their creator who shaped the heavens and created the stars and planets. Every city has a large statue carved from a single piece of A'urin crystal standing in the center of the city with 6 fires burning around it that are never allowed to go out, each fire is representative of something that helps keep their society together and that is why those fires in particular are not allowed to go out. Many Aurelians also believe in the concept of the soul's rebirth, and something akin to karma. Every fire ''eventually'' burns out, but like the Pho'nix, you can rise again stronger and brighter than before, holding more knowledge and understanding in your new aspect. No one is ever truly beyond hope, or above the ability to learn from their actions and change. Sometimes it just takes multiple lives to achieve it. Eventually, those spirits will be rebirthed back as an Aurelian to rest and be cared for, in much the same way as the Pho'nix rests on Aurelia between creations. | |||
Very notably most Aurelians refer to the Pho'nix with She/Her identifiers. This is a matriarchal society, and as such their creator being is leaned in feminine terms to most. Alternatively, people have been known to use a They/Them pronoun or their flock language form of a neutral pronoun otherwise. In some cases It/It's is also used depending on a person's full view of the Pho'nix. Regardless, it's very rare to hear an Aurelian refer to the Pho'nix as He. It's not seen as inherently wrong. The masculine is an aspect of the Pho'nix's rebirths. But it will catch them off guard and they likely won't instantly understand that the Pho'nix is being referenced without clarification of that aspect first. | Very notably most Aurelians refer to the Pho'nix with She/Her identifiers. This is a matriarchal society, and as such their creator being is leaned in feminine terms to most. Alternatively, people have been known to use a They/Them pronoun or their flock language form of a neutral pronoun otherwise. In some cases It/It's is also used depending on a person's full view of the Pho'nix. Regardless, it's very rare to hear an Aurelian refer to the Pho'nix as He. It's not seen as inherently wrong. The masculine is an aspect of the Pho'nix's rebirths. But it will catch them off guard and they likely won't instantly understand that the Pho'nix is being referenced without clarification of that aspect first. | ||
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There are a fair amount of flocks who believe the resting cycle has the Pho'nix in something of a literal Aurelian rebirth state when She rests. The cosmos are timeless. Three hundred years as an Aurelian to rest is the blink of an eye in the grand scheme. There are signs for what various flocks might consider signs of such a rebirth, but they are speculation and they don't think it's time for one of Her rest cycles for a long while yet. As it stands because they recognize the concept as a resting cycle, they would hardly treat Her differently than anyone else even if they did know. A time of rest would be a time of love and not a time of heightened responsibility for such a being. | There are a fair amount of flocks who believe the resting cycle has the Pho'nix in something of a literal Aurelian rebirth state when She rests. The cosmos are timeless. Three hundred years as an Aurelian to rest is the blink of an eye in the grand scheme. There are signs for what various flocks might consider signs of such a rebirth, but they are speculation and they don't think it's time for one of Her rest cycles for a long while yet. As it stands because they recognize the concept as a resting cycle, they would hardly treat Her differently than anyone else even if they did know. A time of rest would be a time of love and not a time of heightened responsibility for such a being. | ||
They do also have a number of stories and myths about the many different aspects of rebirths from ash that the Pho'nix has gone through to help create their world and others prior to them being Aurelians. And given that their society started with spoken stories and performances before even developing a written language, there are different means of reciting the Aspect stories depending on the tone they want to convey | They do also have a number of stories and myths about the many different aspects of rebirths from ash that the Pho'nix has gone through to help create their world and others prior to them being Aurelians. And given that their society started with spoken stories and performances before even developing a written language, there are different means of reciting the Aspect stories depending on the tone they want to convey. A story of one event can sound like a different story depending on who tells it. | ||
==Society== | ==Society== | ||
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A very obvious benefit of this is that the Aurelians, in general, have never had issues with "queer" topics. All relationships regardless of the make of the individuals in them are simply seen as a love bond. Aurelians don't have to come out, their relationships with others are just accepted. It varies from flock to flock, but there aren't necessarily words for these things because of that view. And the flocks that do have those identifiers use them with complete respect and choice of the ones using them. (Since joining the federation there are also a number of Aurelians who just feel connections to off-world identifiers, and that is taken with equal respect, they'll just want clarification if they don't know a specific definition.) Similarly, polyamorous relations are fairly common. And transgender or nonbinary identities obviously have words to lovingly describe them, as well as unique Aurelian pronoun identifiers if it's less binary. There has also been a huge adoption of the Standard they/them among those groups. You would be hard-pressed to find an Aurelian who has a problem with any of it. | A very obvious benefit of this is that the Aurelians, in general, have never had issues with "queer" topics. All relationships regardless of the make of the individuals in them are simply seen as a love bond. Aurelians don't have to come out, their relationships with others are just accepted. It varies from flock to flock, but there aren't necessarily words for these things because of that view. And the flocks that do have those identifiers use them with complete respect and choice of the ones using them. (Since joining the federation there are also a number of Aurelians who just feel connections to off-world identifiers, and that is taken with equal respect, they'll just want clarification if they don't know a specific definition.) Similarly, polyamorous relations are fairly common. And transgender or nonbinary identities obviously have words to lovingly describe them, as well as unique Aurelian pronoun identifiers if it's less binary. There has also been a huge adoption of the Standard they/them among those groups. You would be hard-pressed to find an Aurelian who has a problem with any of it. | ||
They do tend to easily love others who are not Aurelian in the same or similar ways if the bond is formed as well. In general, it is a deep, unconditional love for the people in question. But it is not a love that is inherently romantic unless it goes that way, it's just love. Like any group of individuals, the determination for what one Aurelian considers the basis for their ''personalized'' love differs between Aurelians and some flock sub-cultures. Some are more reserved and introverted and thus more selective with their intensity, while others only need a few interactions to feel immense love from their end for anyone they might interact with. This connection to love, family, and compassion is what makes it so easy for them to offer their help to others, and very easy to forgive a lot of things. (It's good to note that their forgiveness does not always mean their continued interaction with someone who has wronged or betrayed them deeply. Just that they forgive what happened, and genuinely hope for the best for the other side, but then they move on in the rare occurrences that happen past that point.) | |||
==Culture== | ==Culture== | ||
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==Language== | ==Language== | ||
Despite being matriarchal, their general language is surprisingly non-gendered unless it needs to be for specific identifiers. A lot of their means of referencing things are based on | Despite being matriarchal, their general language is surprisingly non-gendered unless it needs to be for specific identifiers. A lot of their means of referencing things are based on intensity, or it is said directly if it has nothing to do with a feeling. And in a good number of languages across the planet, this sticks as a consistency even as grammar and vocabulary differ. Things they say also tend to have an interesting variety of meanings depending on the word or phrase, and the tone used to say that word or phrase. Something can go from essentially just meaning "family" to meaning of "the people who help create your soul with you" without adding more words to it because the tone and context do that for them. And while both mean similar things, the intensity changes those meanings. Both are important, and one is not "more meaningful" than another. It's just different intensity and context. This is so for a lot of their phrases and words. Having a simple meaning, but a more complex meaning in other emotional spaces. | ||
==Customs== | ==Customs== | ||