Denak Kalamari
Intaki Liberation Front
Intaki Prosperity Initiative
1052
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Posted - 2014.02.09 22:30:00 -
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I've been curious lately, about the various beliefs and culture New Eden holds, and how they reflect on us clone soldiers. The Caldari have the various Winds, Amarr have the Scriptures and their Faith, Intaki have the Ida and so on and so forth. What I am asking here is simply, what is your culture? What god(s) do you believe in? How do you greet people? What customs do you have? Are there any folkloric tales? What idioms and proverbs do you have? How does your culture reflect on your nature as a clone? Those kind of questions I seek to get answers for, and I'll start off with my own culture, the Intaki.
The Intaki are often considered to be a quiet and contemplative people, never confronting and never outspoken. We think before we speak, and when someone is involved in a task, we rather wait for them to acknowledge us instead of interrupting them. Maximum wxpression via minimum expression is a common proverb that crystallizes our essence, and our culture, beliefs and artwork reflect this mindset.
Our faith, the Ida, is more a way of living and a philosophy than a religion. Followers of Ida live moderately and devote their entire life for understanding this, even several ones. A core belief of the Ida is the cyclical nature of life. A solution leads to more problems, a burnt forest gives birth to a new one, death leads to rebirth. When someone has understood the cycle completely, they can break it and finally move on. We do not have a concept of absolute truth in Ida, or heaven, nor hell. The Ida is a path, and you are expected to walk it yourself. Some people, who are called the Idama and are considered very wise, have decided to pass their soul to the body of an infant, allowing them to live several lifetimes and understand the cycle completely. Rebirth is a deeply engraved part of our culture.
Our paintings and literature are often called thought-provoking and groundbreaking. Intaki artists have revolutionized old artforms ans created new ones, such as metapainting and touch sculpturing. Most notable example of these are our folkloric paintings, depicting historical and mythological settings, creating symboloc renditions of the people of New Eden, and the literature about the volcano Yasur, which erupted the day Gallente made first contact with our people.
We have many unwritten rules and customs that we use when communicating with one another and with non-Intaki, revolving about showing respect to our conversational partners. We bow when we greet, we let our partners finish before speaking ourselves, and we avoid being confrontational. Offending someone is extremely frowned upon in our culture, and we remain calm even in the most chaotic of situations. When we speak, we speak clearly, slowly and sentetiously. Maximum expression via minimum expression.
Capsuleers and clone soldiers aren't too uncommong among the Intaki, and cloning can be compared to the Ida rebirth almost directly. Some Idama have also become capsuleers and clone soldiers to understand the cycle better too. We do not separate infomorphs(people whose only defining trait is the information they carry in their brians) from the 'normal people', at least not the followers of Ida. In a way, every single Intaki is an infomorph.
So what are your own culture and beliefs? I would like it if you shared them here. Keep in mind though, this is not a place to debate if one way of belief is "right" or "wrong", but merely as a place to share your own culture.
Grahisha of ILF // Writer of Thoughts of a Clone Soldier // Latest entry published Jan. 29th
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Denak Kalamari
Intaki Liberation Front
Intaki Prosperity Initiative
1056
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Posted - 2014.02.10 09:50:00 -
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Ermac Vesely wrote:Do you mean religous culture or our cultural sorroundings that influenced our choices in life? I for an example don't know much about the ethnic caldari religion, which was practiced in my homestation, I just know about our rather different funeral traditions, but that's it.
If you want to hear something about how life was on our station then just ask, but I think the only interesting fact about it is that we live in a station which original purpose was to colonize the planet that we are orbiting.
Religion and general culture are often linked to each other deeply, and what I asked is what is your culture, what folklore, artwork etc. How it affects you as a clone soldier, as in what your culture thinks about cloning tech, is what I'm interested in knowing as well.
Grahisha of ILF // Writer of Thoughts of a Clone Soldier // Latest entry published Jan. 29th
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Denak Kalamari
Intaki Liberation Front
Intaki Prosperity Initiative
1058
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Posted - 2014.02.10 20:46:00 -
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Vinsarrow wrote:https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Religions_and_rituals
This might add-on to what you know so far also look at my post in Dust fiction called "The Amarr Holy Scriptures" it has alot of Amarr stuff also the Pratorien Libary here in the IGS area of the forums it may also help you
((Firstly, this is IC. I want to hear what your character says and thinks of his or her culture, not what you wrote about it OOC. Second, I wanted to see you tell it out to me, speak it in your own words instead of copypasting a link, that just feels lazy))
Grahisha of ILF // Writer of Thoughts of a Clone Soldier // Latest entry published Feb. 10th
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Denak Kalamari
Intaki Liberation Front
Intaki Prosperity Initiative
1058
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Posted - 2014.02.10 21:05:00 -
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Vinsarrow wrote:Oh lol I thought you were looking for the actual lore links & stuff XD my bad well everything I think you can find in my character bio post & some other posts I've made about.
((Issue still prevails, I'm here to hear what your character itself thinks in this thread, not read some other post that you made ages ago. Just saying: "Go here and read that" still feels lazy to me, and defeats the point of this thread, nevertheless the fact that my character can't read your bio, as it is OOC information. And remember, brackets around OOC posts))
Grahisha of ILF // Writer of Thoughts of a Clone Soldier // Latest entry published Feb. 10th
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