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<blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 1275142" data-attributes="member: 891"><p>In my Fahla world, the Arashani are a nude culture.</p><p></p><p>They determine caste, guild, marital status, free or slave, and several other factors - right down to personal ethos and importaqnt deeds based on tatoos and piercings placed throughout the body.</p><p></p><p>Foreigners in Arashan are not trusted - if clothed they are assumed to be liars and thieves - trying to hide the truth. If they go nude like the locals they lack the tattoos and piercings to prove their deeds, caste, and so on. If they go tattoo and pierce themselves they're likely to get some detail wrong and then be put to the sword for trying to step outside of caste, falsify their deeds, claim marriage (or the reverse), or impersonate guild membership.</p><p></p><p>Despite being nude, the Arashani are extremely particular about appearance and daily ritual. It comes out of their religious views - they believe the unclothed body is closer to the gods and magic - and since they have the most most powerful mages in the world of Fahla (to include their possibly immortal sorcerer king), they may be right. Or it may just be superstition compounded by coincidence.</p><p></p><p>It doesn't hurt that they live in an extremely warm and very humid tropical climate and are surrounded, if not by ocean, then by a dense jungle full of small tribal bands - in their view it has been this dedication to ritual that has brought them up and made them a powerful -an arrogant- civilization.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Up until recently (the last century or two) some form of social nudity has been a part of nearly every major civilization on Earth. Though such elements have been increasingly minor in western civilization since the ascendancy of monotheism.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kichwas, post: 1275142, member: 891"] In my Fahla world, the Arashani are a nude culture. They determine caste, guild, marital status, free or slave, and several other factors - right down to personal ethos and importaqnt deeds based on tatoos and piercings placed throughout the body. Foreigners in Arashan are not trusted - if clothed they are assumed to be liars and thieves - trying to hide the truth. If they go nude like the locals they lack the tattoos and piercings to prove their deeds, caste, and so on. If they go tattoo and pierce themselves they're likely to get some detail wrong and then be put to the sword for trying to step outside of caste, falsify their deeds, claim marriage (or the reverse), or impersonate guild membership. Despite being nude, the Arashani are extremely particular about appearance and daily ritual. It comes out of their religious views - they believe the unclothed body is closer to the gods and magic - and since they have the most most powerful mages in the world of Fahla (to include their possibly immortal sorcerer king), they may be right. Or it may just be superstition compounded by coincidence. It doesn't hurt that they live in an extremely warm and very humid tropical climate and are surrounded, if not by ocean, then by a dense jungle full of small tribal bands - in their view it has been this dedication to ritual that has brought them up and made them a powerful -an arrogant- civilization. Up until recently (the last century or two) some form of social nudity has been a part of nearly every major civilization on Earth. Though such elements have been increasingly minor in western civilization since the ascendancy of monotheism. [/QUOTE]
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