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1) What's the cultural relevance of Cuezi to the Verdurians? Eg. the relevance of Greek to West Europe was theological, and then philosophical, but does Eleďát have such strong a hold over Verdurian culture that Cuezi plays are still publicly performed, etc, because of them? Or is there some other reason that cultural influences from Cuzei not only survived, but practically thrived even after the majority lost reverence for their intellectual traditions?

2) What, if anything, does the Kebreni religion say of ktuvoks besides the expected "evil demons who enslave humans", etc? I assume they agree with Verdurians on that much despite trading with Dekhnam, since the Irreanism article says "Alone among Almeans, the flaids believe that the iliu are not all good, nor the ktuvoks all evil."
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1. The Cadhinorians admired and preserved Cuzeian knowledge (while deploring the state the Cuzeians ended up in), and this attitude was inherited by the Verdurians, and reinforced by the rediscovery of classical languages after the Dark Years and by the Eledhe dynasty.

Just as our intellectual history always goes back to the "Greeksnromans", that of Eretald goes back to the Cadhinorians and Cuzeians.

2. It says very little about the ktuvoks at all— they never conquered or threatened Kebri, and the religion is something like Shinto, much bigger on places and rites and local divinities than on grand historical or cosmological themes.

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zompist wrote:1. The Cadhinorians admired and preserved Cuzeian knowledge (while deploring the state the Cuzeians ended up in), and this attitude was inherited by the Verdurians, and reinforced by the rediscovery of classical languages after the Dark Years and by the Eledhe dynasty.

Just as our intellectual history always goes back to the "Greeksnromans", that of Eretald goes back to the Cadhinorians and Cuzeians.
What knowledge was that? Other than the basic arts of civilization, such as writing, they seem to have been ahead of the Central tribes only in terms of friendship with the iliu, historiography, the arts and a socio-religious ethic that was later superseded. Rather like Egypt, if you ask me, except Cuzeian religion survived sort of intact. Was this enough to establish a continuity of intellectual tradition, or is there more to it?
zompist wrote:2. It says very little about the ktuvoks at all— they never conquered or threatened Kebri, and the religion is something like Shinto, much bigger on places and rites and local divinities than on grand historical or cosmological themes.
Okay, what about popular religion? Shinto has plenty of demons and legends, including creation myths, though organized religion (not counting scholarship, &c.) is mainly focused on ritual, following Confucianism.
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Cuzei was the more advanced civilization for the Cadhinorians' formative period-- in effect they invented the arts of civilization in that part of the world, and the market economy and steel to boot. In any area of knowledge the reflex was to first check what the Cuzeians had written about it.

As for the Kebreni, of course they have a healthy distrust of the ktuvoks, but again, ktuvoks were just not a part of their historical experience. The Cadhinorians are much more likely to be villains in their foklore.

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Thanks. :)
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