ADDENDUM FOR ELVES OF MADRUMAH:

KIRRN ADDENDUM:

Kirrn / Cyrrin ( probably from: ‚Cyrrî ‘yen‘ = Children-Men )

Another thing that is very important to say about the Kirrn generally is, that they live in very numerous, very different tribes, not only different to others by culture, way of living and more warrior or more hunter and nomad / ranger like ways to live in Madrumah, but also differing very much in body height, skin colour, physical build and outlook appearance, allignment and own very specific and individual features and traditions to act, move and approach to their environment, woods, forests and jungles.
Apart from the classical, maybe even oldest, and rather childlike Kirrn, there are also other elven species, related to the Kirrn, but being completely otherwise configurated.

The Xamasqua tribes amongst the Kirrn are very numerous and oftenly to meet with if you enter the woods of Madrumah.
They differ very much to the most other Kirrn only already by physical build. They tend to be much taller and up to an adult human’s body height ( and in cases even reach a size of over
1, 85m ), ruddy of complexion, sinewy and musculous.
They actually overtower an ordinary Kirrn-elf like some giant! Are far not seeming as juvenile and ageless as the much older native Kirrnic woodelves, inhabiting Madrumah, and also differ in skin colour, mentality, temperament and potential for aggression.

Xamasqua are far not as fair as the other Kirrn, and have got skin colour varying inbetween lightly weathered tan ( until almost dark tan ) leathery skin, deep black or dark eyes, being slightly slanted or shaped almondly, with some very awake und alert expression in their glance, suffused of strongest will force and charisma and finest, almost animalic senses and instincts, have got oily black or dark smooth and straight hair, striking cheek bones full of character and thin faces, pointed elf ears and expressively drawn eyebrows, noses and mouthes.

For they are warriors and violently acting native elven, they will appear hostile and with weapon force, towards any other tribe, and all those, crossing their ways or entering their territory, will attack any human and any target they would see as enemy and intruder.
They are proud and possess their very own culture, including also shamanistic values, codex of honour and strives to follow. And also command over ranger skills, silent moving, track reading, catching scent and path lore, just as the other Kirrn. But use their ranger skills, their totem, and their striking power of own combat ability, rather in raiding, ambushing and killing.
Their pride is the pride of the victorious warrior, in alliance with his spirits and gods, and includes unconquered strength and iron mercilessness, towards all enemies and weaker one‘s.
While bringing honour and glory to their gods, ancestors and their own tribe means in their case, to conquer as many foes as possible, intrepid, bold and death-defying, to know no fear and shy back before no opponent – may it be a wild animal or monster, or also another warrior, civilist or even weaponless. Powerless one or in cases even a child, if they are once in war rage and began to devote completely to their fierce of battle and blood rush – in old feud or in revenge, or in simple campaign to conquer land, make slaves, and gain wealth of the defeated one‘s.

The weaker one to them is always the one that will receive none of their mercy and turn out unspared.
That is the law of the wilderness, how they themselves experienced it, from the earliest days on. The stronger and fitter prevails and survives, the weaker and sick, old or handicapped falls victim to the stronger.
Mother nature has settled this law herself.
To seperate the strong from the weak, and to guarantee the natural balance in the forests, in natural selection, within the eating one’s and the one‘s being eaten.

For the martialic Xamasqua mostly tend to identify themselves with wild beasts of the wilderness, strong and noble animals who rip prey, like wolves, birds of prey, bears and boars in fury, it is natural for them to just act this way as well.
They not even see this as cruel or act of random violence.

If they are on the war path and intend to raid, slaughter and shed blood of a manies, they put on very fear and awe giving full body paint of ritual and warrior cult related nature, decorate with trophies from slain foes, horrible fetish of feathers, bone, teeth and skulls and prepare already to transform into a pure beast, spiritually.
To strip off the last remains of false humanity, scruple and hesitation.
War and combat is their spiritual way to become part of the wilderness and jungles, itself.
With entire soul, heart and spirit.
They even to parts use magic, potions and techniques to come into a state of ecstatic frenzy, unite with Totem spirits, that makes them even more strong, brave and animal-like.
And when their hwl is once filling the woods with echoes and clamour, you know that they are already long present, watching you and maybe even built a battue around you.
It is said, that these special Kirrn were once more like thorough common Kirrn. And that they were not always living this way.
But that the appearing of the foreign men, the menace of their evil and dishonest, cowardly intruding – and above all the complete extinct of their own, natural supplies of game and resources, at the edge of the northern parts of Madrumah, by their hands, drive them to their life as cruel warriors.   

While the Taj-Maari then again in the total opposite are mainly peaceful.
Giving efforts to sanctify the earth, to follow the will of the spirits, to keep the ancestors in honour, and to protect and keep the graceful and fair woods, not angering and waking the older, deeper and partly also more hostile, dark and more gloomy parts of Madrumah. 
These Kirrn can act martial and grip to weapons too, but tend to be much more reasonable, less random and cruel.
Their chieftains and tribe heads still believe in the hope, that Madrumah can be saved, and preserved also with peaceful and diplomatic ways. 

Some Kirrn ( and especially the Kaelaar ) even once began to dress up in more civilized ways. To not only wear leather, fur and simple linen cloths, but also a green ranger outfit, jerkins, belts, coats, boots and hoods.
These Kirrn did not anymore go naked and only dressed in loin cloth, mokassins, and traditional chestplates, fetish of feathers, pearls and carvework from bone, they somewhen prefered to approach more like the High Men of the Szerraid rangers.

Yamaatu / High Mentalist Wing Elven addendum:

( 'Yamaatu' - * probably from: ‚Éamorthu‘ / ‚Éamortû‘ = Mediators Inbetween Éas and Morrui )

Important to say about Yamaatu is also, that they are immortal, as long as they are any part of the community of Rho-Auron.
That they are mostly ( by a majority of at least 70 % ) born as male ones, and sometimes by rumour even said to be kind of ‚genderless‘ in some way.

Yamaatu wings then are most commonly and mainly white or grey feathered – in mixes and variations of colour sometimes.

DARK AND BLACK WINGED YAMAATU:

A special and more rare kind of Yamaatu also possesses dark –or even more rare and special: Black wings.

They are much less spritual, worldlier, more hedonistical, and ‚humanlike‘ in character than all their noble, calm and rationally just and soothed, sober brethren ( who are traditionally and culture wise rather religious, loyal to the forces of balance and neutrality and the ‚Grey Lords‘, and according to strict codexes of warrior honour, mentalistic monk vows, godly laws or laws of ethics and moral )
These special dark or black winged Yamaatu sometimes even tend to evil, and ressemble more the mentality of DAWN ELVES, or NIGHT ELVES for that reason.

Their naturally and culturally given calm, rationality, transfigurated aloofness and tendency to be rather emotionless, purely logical and just in a way without prejudice or looking at the ( outward ) appearance of another, in order to judge him, is now instead taking rather effect in individual characteristic traits of:

Coolness, cruelty, decadence, listlessness, boredom, randomness or mercilessness; Scrupellousness, ice cold calculation and incidiuousness or malice; Intellectuallity, action by pure logic or rationality in ways of lack of any sense for moral, decency or belief – or also takes form in purely unpredictable chaotic allignment of any other way.

The very special dark or black winged Yamaatu mostly follow life works as ( fanatic ) spiritual warriors or warrior monks, viscious Samurai-like fighters for personal or religious goals, including extreme violence, own personal extremes of classical Yamaatuan honour codexes, belief in vengeance and self-justice, or even belief in the total independance from gods or beliefs, and are, professionwise most typically:

Professional fighters, bounty hunters, shady nightblades or rebels, outlaws,
followers of common ‚human‘ professions, or even fallen, honourless crooks, gamblers, drunkards, and cross-bow pistol slingers, only striving for selfish or hedonistical profits, money, gain or worldy / political power.

Ressemble roaming desperadoes without cause, as lonely and solitary strivers for challenge, danger and death, so bored and tired of their own immortality, possibilities and own cultural and long traditioned virtues and religious / spritual goals, that they became listless, bored about warriorhood, and own cruelty.

They partly turned almost life-tired, extremely daring and bold, extremely corrupted and tempted by evil, looking desperately for any ‚real goal‘ in the world worth to fight and long for, restlessly –
For a real true worthy and equal foe, in duel, ( and follow any extreme way of the special spiritual way to live as Yamaatuan Samurai, and walking a ‚mystic life path‘ desecrated to only one single, special goal, in life, as for example the ‚Mystic Path in order to find the Greater Enemy‘ ) and look - in last consequence - for own honourful death as fighters, in the end.

Involving themselves in basically totally chanceless and inferior duels, against mighty creatures as dragons, giants or whole armies of evil creatures, or alone against more than three mighty foes ( in a similar way as the cultic and spiritual ‚death seekers‘ and ‚giant slayers‘ of the dwarves ) and therefore also for own death in battle, being allowed to part from this world as hero and with style, with some last, selfish glimmer of glory, or also in totally suicidal, unglamourous intention.

Black or dark winged Yamaatu are also very oftenly users of partly occult or black magic or sorcery, evil mentalists or chaos warriors following a twisted own kind of interpretation of the general force of neutrality and balance.

So, the wings colour of the Yamaatu seems obviously very much to depend on their personal or family / bloodline related allignment, and range inbetween ( classically ) white or grey wings, white wings with grey patters, grey wings with white tips, white wings with black tips, purely black wings or other mixes and variations of wing feather colour!

YAMAATU IN DEMONIC FORM:

The very seldom and almost purely mythical demonic species of Yamaatu are scaled, have got bat or reptile wings / demon wings instead of more swan-like or angel-like wings.
( And sometimes even horned heads, demonic red or bestial eyes, natural splitten or self splitten tongues - similar to Warlock and Chaos Warrior like acts of occult piercing, tattooing, branding and self-mutilation - snake-like body parts, scorpion or spider body parts etc. )

YAMAATU IN UNDEAD FORM:

In legendary but factic not existent undead form they have got rotten or decayed / skeletonized wings, in dragonic form grey, darkly scaled or horned bodies, horns and dragon wings ( with other special dragonic traits, chracteristics, attributes and skills partly )

OTHER SPECIAL YAMAATU FORMS:

Some other special martial Yamaatu then own the magical and wondrous secret effects of HORN WATER is supposed to have black scaled or chitin-like, horned natural grown breast plate armoury, horned body parts – or whole dark or black exo-skeletons, on their bodies.
Are a special own kind of classical spiritual Yamaatu warriors then, or also member of the ‚order of the horn‘ then mostly, the secret underground lodge related to the gods of the Grey Lords, and are warriors, warrior monks, mentalists, assassins, spies, mystics or agents, fighting for neutrality.

SOCIETY OF THE YAMAATU IN THE CITY OF RHO-AURON:

- Look and characteristic features of the place Rho-Auron itself:

Rho-Auron ( Or: Yaroshima / Aomóri ) is a huge, almost titanic city-like place, located at the most northern mountains of the Dragon’s Merlon’s, very close northeast of the giant woods of Madrumah and the land of the enchanted forests, and directly towering over the entire forests of Madrumah, in the west, looking over an amazing loftly panorama view... ( over the magical and lovely fair lands of Navapália and the big inland sea of Cirwillin, in the north, and the Deep Forest of Dhúyalas, and the lands of Vrinh in the east. )

Partly nestled and very skillfully built into the slopes of the Dragon’s Merlons, with steep incline, continuingly broken by edges and platforms, dropping sharply, leading into an open abyss, Rho-Auron is characteristic most importantly by:

It’s huge Grey Tower of Knowledge; It’s most big and important city complex - with the almost titanic, huge round and perfectly shaped dome of silverish copper in the middle ( and the city‘s other many buildings, houses, schools, arcades and halls of warriors )
And it’s most important holy temple for the gods of neutrality, all their own aspects of the Grey Lords and the Yamaatu’s own main god.

The whole settlement is still much more extensive than only built from these three parts.

Sometimes parts of it are built upon a single pointed, high and needlelike rock stalagmite - or finger shaped single pin, sometimes built on a secluded rock formation, or boulder, linked up with a bridge, natural bow of rock, rocky ridge or path along a hollow.

And then there are also again numerous other, smaller towers, abbies and temples.
Groves of special holy or cultural meaning; Greyish asterisks, obelisks, columns and even waterfalls, included with ingeniously skillsful and sophisticated architecture, and suited homogenously perfectly into the landscape, while integratng all it’s features found there:
Trees, rocks, slopes, cliffs, mountainous plateaus and rock rises or rocky hills.

All linked up with a complicated system of roads in the innerest heart of the city-like part, shaped vaguely like some claer and systemetic, very orderly spiderweb, from the center out - and connecting all the most other important places of Rho-Auron in form of straight, even roads...

Partly also chaotically, edged up with plenty corners and forks and labyrinth like, branching off in turnings into thousands of side lanes.
With marked plaza’s, junctions and cross-road places, as only means to orientate upon.

Leading to countless little back yards, diving underneath of arch bows, leading over bridges ( footbridges and planks, far ahead of cliffs with a precipice ) and over sharp edges or ridges with chasms again and again.

And then Rho-Auron also has got it's broad and paved, very rigid and safe, own ( serpentine like and partly gradient ) roadways, connecting the great grey tower, the temples and abbies, schools and all other places and buildings scattered over whole Rho-Auron, elsewhere, outwards of the city itself.

It is furthermore causing attraction to any visitor of Rho-Auron, that it completely lacks any scultures of people, or beings, things portraying or depicting such.
And that it’s only decorations and symbols used for decorations, it’s only art-works or sculptures of stone
( onyx or marble ) are of purely abstract or pattern-like kind, and of purely neutral kind of expression. 

But still coming very near to impressing artistic perfection, with loveful details, and being worked with nearly ingenious skills of crafting and architecture.
Containing stone work or glass work, some windows being consistent of fragmental mosaic’s of cloured glass, varying mostly inbetween green, blue, grey and lilac, some whole facades or interiors being glazed with enemel, walls, tiled up with millions of little exactly ordered ornaments, decorated with mathematically exact geometrical shapes od carvings and even precise effects of ‚mirage‘ and optical illusions, creating marvellous and unique phenomenon’s, paradoxes and impossibilities by pure mathematical calculations and special ways to use light, water ( fire) mechanics, simple technology and clockworks, architecture working based upon physical laws or natural principles of the ways of elements, in high sophistication of harmony, clearness, aesthetics, and minimality.

- The social form:

Rho-Auron’s social and cultural living form is based upon legal equality, without any hierarchy and official seperation of classes or stands.
The worldy, more scholar like, or warrior like part of it, is closely entwined and grown together with it’s more spiritual and ‚religious‘ parts.

Their culture is entirely built and designed according to the laws of plurality, diversity, co-existence and freedom.
Their stands and classes are ordered as aspects of the same thing, inherent in the nature of neutrality.

While the population and people of Rho-Auron – the wing elves themselves, just as all those including and representing their culture actively,
and just the same as also the ‚simple people‘ working to nourish or ‚serve‘ the wing elves, or to labour in order to guarantee the fluency and perfect flowing order and course of the everyday’s life -
As administrators, wardens, farmers or workers on plantages, millers, artisans or in other professions.

This simple folk enjoys the fair part of all profit gained, and are equal to any other Rho-Auryn, may it even be it’s highest warlord, highest priest or mentalistic sage, mystic or cleric.

In fact, the entire society of Rho-Auron functions in a form, being similar to practised social communism, so that there is neither a currency, nor gold, silver or worldy wealth used to act out trade, exchange, reward or using ‚prices‘.
( And there are also of course no taxes, fees or tolls )

The people of Rho-Auron use wealthes of knowledge, skills, books, and tangible products and objects by barter trade - or also exchange fixed traditional wealthes as ‚hours to serve as guard‘, ‚hours to work‘, hours to proceed watching or administrating tasks, wealthes in enjoying ‚free time‘, convenience, enrichenings of life quality, or other ideal values of such kind.

There are neither forced ‚duties‘ nor obligations, laws or rights in the actual sense.

All the people in Rho-Auron are absolutely free and equal, present and working by own will and voluntarily.

And the only ‚laws‘ are those few written basic laws of city rights, the basic laws of their own culture, and it’s including attitudes, morals and ways to tell more progressive from more harmful or even destructive deeds, done.

While the welfare and life quality, peace and good climate of the city as a community is all highest law. 

To prevent disturbance, crime, chaos or ‚anarchy‘ everyone entering Rho-Auron has to specify his own personal reasons why he came to the city ( if to only visit it, work or study or join it, or in other intentions ) and has then to swear a special ‚oath‘ - or promised word of honour - to act by special, very old fixed city laws, he is let into in some seperate room if necessary, and then treated with special magic or means of ‚hypnosis‘ / mentalism based effects on his mind.

So it is at least said.

* This might be lesser a kind of ‚brain wash‘ or evil, harmful manipulation of kind, against the nature and the natural rights of individuality, the neutrality includes.
But it is still maybe the one thing, that makes this social system possible, as one can suppose.

Draconic punishments, public executions, or any other vulgar and low kind of such humilations and disgrace of the born natural dignity of man are not used in Rho-Auron.

And anyone who once entered here, is also always free up to his own decision to come and go as he pleases.

* Even if it is known, that personal memories, knowledge of special secrets, certain powers and skills are dependant on being INSIDE or OUTSIDE the realms of wing elves.
( And that even IMMORTALIY of the wing elves undergo mysterious own tides, dependant on the deeds of each, the ways and condition of his true spirit, body and soul, and some wing elves having been tempted to extreme senseless cruelty, destructive or harmful not noble actions, the plain evil, violated high sacred rules, or got corrupted, lost their immortality and partly even vegetated self-disgraced, pityful and pathetically, just as a common human, mortal forever from then on and that irrevocably ) 

The most important parts of the community of Rho-Auron are warriors, clergy / spiritual guiders and monks, scholars, and simple civilists.

- The warrior stands:

The four warrior stands: * sen-shi, tô shi, gifune bushi, jûn tòshi / Musha Jûn ( Toranaga, Yurikaido / Osakenji ) in a whole are similar to a huge single ‚table round‘ of equal warriors, coming together to eat together, discuss, change out, and hold council.

The ‚leader‘ of their round – more a moderator and the one who enjoys the right of first speech – is their war lord / Shogun.

Followed by his ‚elite‘ – being very spiritually knights of honour / Samurai.
And then there are at the same time all the simple other wing elvish fighting Yamaatu.

They accord to strict, very own and special codexes.
Partly live very spartanic and in renunciation auf a many things in life.
( In abstinence, simple living style, continence or teetotalism )
But are still – after their initiation and integration into the circle of warriors – given a many secrets, knowledge and talents.

They are existent to defend the city in times of war, menace or attack, as council or worldy concerns and matters, and as martial variation to the purely non-fighting other wing elves.

Spiritual more in ways of practising the arts of combat, in techniques of spiritual meaning, as ‚dance‘ to reflect the harmony and nature of creation, as way to live ‚pure‘, according to the Yamaatu religion, and find his own right way,
and to use combat as special own kind of ‚meditation‘, physically, athletically, body and movementwise, and by body control, but also mentally, spiritually and religiously.

Sometimes warriors or fighters being educated here, being raised up in Rho-Auron, or having been living here for some time, also leave Rho-Auron for special own life goals, as ambassadors or in some personal mission in behalf of the wing elves:

- to mediate politically crucial burning points of crisis in the world
- to make peace inbetween parties which the councils deemed as important issue, firstly in completely peaceful ways, but with diplomacy, advice as expert in war leadership, warrior himself, strategist and enlightened warrior of honour, being comparable to a ‚Samurai‘ actually

* And at least as strict, loyal to his warlord, being a flamingly and passionately champion of honour, and extremely violent, if it has to be, and just as responsible for his own deeds, and self-lessly sacrificial, but far not so directed in life goals to worldy power as such of a classical Shogun, or higher standing Samurai, but more an extreme idealist, self sacrificing priorily for the neutraility in a whole, loyal to the entire community and the religion of Rho-Auron, and champion also of their beliefs.

Not causing wars, or ever ‚serving‘ another one, really. But being actually still as free and individual, independant and unbound as before – except his own conscience, his vow as Yamaatu warrior / Samurai, and his so emerging own and self-chosen path in life.

Including all it’s consequences, ‚duties‘, codexes and rules.
But always theoretically free to quit. To leave and give up his stand as Yamaatu warrior. And go his own ways.

As every part of the Yamaatu culture can go and leave at any time and choose any other way to lead his ( or her ) life, this is always an option for anyone to take.

And means not really necessarily a ‚disgrace‘ for the rest of the wing elves. They won’t be punished, expelled or excluded.

As long as they haven’t acted out really serious violations of the religion, and it’s included - specially defined – laws about lowest murder, trait and crime. 
( Or acted extremely harmful, destructive or ignominious in other ways )

Still a noble and high, honourful Yamaatu warrior – just as a purely weaponless other, more spiritual Yamaatuan – will lose his status as champion for Rho-Auron, and lose some very certain abilities, if he lays down his vow.
Will also disgrace the vow, he once made, ITSELF. And shame HIMSELF and the violation of his own better knowledge, if he commits any breakage of written or unwritten laws.
* ( koga su )

- The clerical stands:

The clergy / spiritual guiders work in temples, abbies, oracles, holy places and monasteries.

Named by the names * Sei Jin Hi-Ryû, Iyoshi-Ma-Do Do, Chôzoko-teki Himitsu No, Kashira Kôgô Shi’i, and: Rôshi ai Tsuri Ai O Toru ( ‚Shimaatai‘ / ‚U`ora-Daki‘ ‚Yushuru-Dayotu‘ ( = Dae-Yôruadh. )

Headed by the SURU - Zen Ken or Shi Sôka Fûshi ( ‚Iyoshi-Maaro‘, ‚Shimoto-Saan‘, ‚Yushuro- Dayo‘ ) or, also called: Kyô-Tôto’i or Chôro Shin-Yûshû ai Makoto.

They are like highpriests / ceremonial priests, abbots, holy sages and illuminated one’s.

Meditating, practising contemplations, certain rituals and ‚prayers‘.
Each member of them is entrusted with a different task, thing to do or assignment to fulfill.

They are as important, as the warriors of Rho-Auron, but reflect a different aspect of the general nature and force of neutrality, here.

To hold connection to the forces of higher energy, in form of gods or mystic states of extended human mind, practise cyclic rituals prayers and ceremonies, sing and exchange,
live and eat, celebrate and learn / study with other Yamaatu, or monks, ( also with civilists and warriors ) teach, advice, guide and educate others, discuss, are silent, meditate in community, or work as holy astrologers, seers and scholars.

Joined by all the other, more worldly scientists, scholars, philosophers and studying monks and mentalists – and warrior monks.
Novices, pupils, students, adalates, and learning simple people.
Practising all their rituals, study and meditation, in order to come to a purer, more immediate and more ‚enlightened‘ state of human mind and soul.

Being calm, wise and virtueful, following a path of nobility and striving for all the many ideas which their own belief includes – in other ways than the warriors ( and without using armour, weapons and helmets )

But still the same mighty, skilled and striving, to bring themselves and all others ( and actually the whole world and it’s men ) to some better understanding, insight and purer connection and realization of what the mind is, what kind of energy it represents, how to use it in the right way and how to become a more satisfied, easy living - and innerly more peaceful, content and 'pure' person.

Their stands are are existent in purpose to keep and practise their culture, their belief and be in communication with their gods / in the middle and connection to their own higher level of minds, to be consultants, advicers and sages in ways of a council, just as the warriors ( and also to talk and discuss with THEM ) but more care for the spiritual way ‚to make the world a better place‘, and to realize ideas and basic goals of neutrality.

ORIGIN AND HISTORY:

Nobody in the world really know where from the Yamaatu come and where the true origins of their species lay, but themselves.
And for they heed and protect this secret and nothing factic is recorded by written word or in form of mythology this remained a secret never fathomed, as soon as they appeared in the west and their woodlands in times of old, and took residence in their own mountain sided city of Rho-Auron then.

Known is only, or claimed at least, that they once showed up very suddenly in the old world, and then very quickly took fixed home their by rigid and strong roots.
And blended in very short time to their new surrounding there also, as if they were some homogenous part of this world, already, all the time before yet.

Still their nature, their cool and reserved, distanced and rational ways, their extra-ordinary reasoning, level-headedness and composure, modest, spartanic or even monklike way to live, and their own strict codex of honour, as also their purely physical outward appearance – and especially their WINGS – makes them very different than everything else what is settled in the old world and inhabiting it, by standing out degree.

Without doubt they own something of an elf, in physical body shape and by characteristics of physical appearance, on the other hand they also have got somethng of a superhuman, immortal High Man, and are partly built much much taller and more wiry than an elf – and as already said grow in cases up to giants of over two meters of body height measure!
( And are therefore obviously not related directly to the Kirrn elven, living locally nearest to the Yamaatu in Madrumah )

Their culture seems old ancient, the same as unique in whole Madrumah.
It seems to go back to a very long row of ancetorial heritage of traditions, ritual warrior and mentalist culture, very own philosophical and spiritual attitudes to look at the world and exactly defined and fixed rules of how to lead life, but is then at the same time not similar to any other culture in the land of the enchanted forests.

Their own language is only a PART, who reveals that.
It is very complex and complicated, and bases upon an completely unknown kind of special dialect, which is probably emerged from the old holy ( ceremonial ) language ‚Ayrabre’ath‘, with a mixture with elven tongues, and a completely own exotic tongue, with unknown origins.
Yamaatu are – despite their feathered wings and their almost demonic pale skin, and their fair, almost white hair – wether angels nor devils.
But rather something right inbetween.
And represent one of the very strongest forces of the whole world, who follow and strive the pure neutrality.
( Balance and impartial, unbiassed even-handed justice )

From their immense big and extensive mountain city of Rho-Auron out, they work as orderer, negotiator and arbitrator and balancing keeper and protector of the old world, as mentalists, monky, worldly war generals and Shogûn, ritual warriors / Samurai, and scholars, philosophers, scribes, neutral sages and rune masters, who teach, support, encourage and cultivate all their numerous adelate’s, pupils and novices, in a many things.

The Lord of Terromage and his new religion of horrors is considered as the 'enemy among us' by the Yamaatu and their innerest councils of sages and wise and noble warriors.
He is called by names as 'Manaito-Mea' ( = The Great Evil Nightmare )
Or: AKÛMA ( The Demon / Devil / Satan )

While all his evil and bane bringing creatures are generally calles by names as: Oni, Ma, Dîmoni, Majin or Tenma...

Or also: 'Mamono' ( = evil witch or evil ghost ), Yûki ( = Soul of a died one / evil ghost ) or: Yôma, akuryô, akki... or: jashin...

PLACES:

The Great Tower of Knowledge: Hairo no tushi ai chi shiki

The houses of ‚Gaku Mon‘ ( = sciences, well schooled intellect, the study )

Main Temple: Shiniki-Hatsu
Halls of Warriors: Halls of Tattui Bushi
Oracle of the Grey Lords: Eki a-Hairo no kyô ( hairo-no kyô = Grey Lords )

Dome of Judicial Decision Of the Gods: Oraku Suru ai Gifu Bushi ( = Oracle of the highest forces, where the Warriors of the Just Wrath are to find )

DYNASTIES:

Warrior dynasties: * Yadoshiru, Otaru Mazdo, Xhenai-Sharu, Shimono-Daro, Shiyaka Waki

Monk dynasties: * Shizoto, Shimandru, Hammasoshi

Female sage dynasties: Honourable and Dignified Tabernacleo Of Akita-Moro / Shimono-Shiri
( convent of nuns )

LANGUAGES:

Main language: ‚Ido‘
Ceremonial languages: * Sei-Jin Koto, Rei Jogo, Tsuki Koto, Chû-Shin Nori Wâdo, and * Rogôsu ( god’s word )

Magical languages: * Majikoto / Shimago( Majishan und Majutsu-Shi ) Mahôro / Sha-Go ( Mahô-Tsukai, Tejina-Shi und Yôjutsu-Sha )

Common dialects:

Kanjido, Ido-Kana, Rômaji-Koto

WEAPONS AND WAYS OF COMBAT:

Weapons: Katana, Jo, Nunchaku, Shuriken, elven Bathlet
Combat way: Completely silent, focussed and precise
Partly in combination with martial arts

Shieldless!
Partly in ( light ) armour, with helmet and greaves

- GODS

Most important gods:

1) Highest Yamaatuan Main God ( Aspect of Auren )

~ MYÔ-JIN HATSU ~
( CHÛ-RITSU )
( pure cosmic perfection )
Myô-Jin = dignified deity
Hatsu = First one
Hitotsu me = first / One Eyed

~ The Very First ~
Chû-Ritsu = neutrality
Beginning = tot tsuki

* Ten Chi = The cosmos in the sense of heaven and earth
Ban Yû = everything; all things
Ban Zen / Yû Shû / Kann Peki = Perfection and flawlessness / purity

2) The Grey Lords * ( Urayushu / Hairo No Kyô )

~ Ayuri / Aomaazu / Shimosado ~
   ( Àuren /Houryn )

The Lord of order, god of the first, grey moon
( cosmos and it’s order )
Magician!

~ Oji-Yaama / Omakaza / Kobiyoto ~
 ( Orgûl / Augûl / Auglen )

Old earth giant, now also cylop, being early converted to Auryn

God of destiny and Knowledge
Second high Grey Lord and direct follower of Auren among the First Grey Lords
and their brotherhood
Administrator of time
Mediator God and God of the pure neutrality
Original religion founder of the Yamaatu religion
First pure mentalist

Lord of monks, all who work as watcher or administrator / keeper of libraries and labouring in such
Seer God
God of time, itself, how it passes
( the moment )

~ Imadoro / Toyamito / Hamaka-Ido ~
 ( Madruîm / Mádrim / Mânrhúma )

The Scribe
( gnomic light elf )
Master of the word, and the script lore

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