Batavian Culture

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History

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Geography

The culture has remained with the Batavian people mostly, apart from some general Heartlanders here and there, and these people tended to always settle in flatlands or forests, near any decent sized body of water.

Society

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Government

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Nobility

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Economy

Batavians value hard work and ambition highly and see it important to work together in achieving common goals. Their economy can be considered quite capitalistic. They have a free market and international trading is always allowed despite relations between countries (unless an embargo is declared). Common professions in the culture are fishing, farming, trading in goods, artistical professions, carpenting and naval professions.

Organizations

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Traditions and Celebrations

The most prominent tradition in the Batavian culture is the Saint Nicholas fest. This is the celebration of Saint Nicholas' birthday. In Batavian folklore, the Saint was the patron saint of children, sailors, tradesmen, bankers, students and dedicants, archers and brewers. This caused Saint Nicholas to become the most popular Saint amongst the Batavian people and thus his birthday became a cultural celebration. On Saint Nicholas fest, which is called Sint Nikolaas feest in Batavian, children and even some adults put their footwear by the door or fireplace and pray to the Saint or sing songs to him. If, according to the Saint, the person has been good in the past year, they receive presents and treats. However, if the Saint thinks they have been bad or sinned too much in the past year, they receive salt. In reality it's the children's parents or the ruling figure in the Batavian society that delivers the gift since the Saint is long gone. The fest is celebrated once in an Elven year (5th of december). The Saint Nicolas fest is very similar to and thought to have shared origins with Krugmas, which is also still celebrated by Batavians.

Religion

Because the Batavian culture has existed under the reign of Oren for most of it's existance, the religion of the culture is canonist. However, Batavian people aren't strictly canonist because they see religion as a private matter that any individual can choose for themselves. This means that within the Batavian culture there is a respected freedom of religion which has led to Batavian people following the True Faith, the Owynist Faith and other branch offs of canonism, but also aspectism and other deities. Despite the religious freedom there are limits and 'heretical' religions and spiritualism are frowned upon, religions that are influenced by any form of dark magic or being are forbidden.

Artistry

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Art

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Literature

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Music

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Language

The Batavian culture has it's own language named, not to anyone's suprise, 'Batavian'. Batavian is a branch off of the common human language. Despite having their own language and having had it for ages, Batavian people all speak the common language just fine due to the Batavian speech not being of any influence outside their circles which caused the Batavians to need to adjust and use common as well in their every day lives. Because the Batavian people were never really united, the Batavian language has gained several dialects, the most prominent being 'Friesch', though these dialects have no significance.

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