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Cultures

The Teled Elves have over the millennia divided into Cultures much like the Ailor have, with customs and traditions that transcend nationhood. While once most if not all resided within the (old) Allorn Empire, these Cultures express different ways to play a traditional Elf. Below are depicted various Cultures of Teled, hover your cursor over the text to read more about them. The Expanded Lore (optional reading) section will go into further detail.

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  Neo-Allorn Culture
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  Amontaar Teled hail from the city-state of Amontaar, a center of politics, commerce, and diplomacy. As a nexus between Empires, the people of Amontaar have always had to cultivate social networks and connections, a willingness to listen, and to pragmatically act and mediate to preserve their independence. Amontaar Teled frequently travel to Regalia to do political or economic business.
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  Finul Teled follow the example of Empress Finell, the patron of Bel Faiaal, who was a renowned sailor and passionate lover enjoying the good life. The Finul have abandoned the haughty and poised Allorn disposition in favor of wild, loud, and excitedly intimate or passionate expressions. The Finul can be found in any port, anywhere the sea touches, including Regalia, a maritime Empire.
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  Bel Hammon Teled hail from the similarly named mysterious hermit-kingdom, a magic-focused state with terrifying power that secures itself through dubious means. The Bel Hammon are mistrusted by the wider world, even denounced as evil immoral warlocks and scientist who care not for the value of life or morals in their pursuit for magical experimentation. Their magical cabal even reaches Regalia, where they too experiment.
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  Minoor Teled hail from Minoor Leria, a communal land where they have rejected nationhood, empires, and wealth. The Minoor live in accordance with the needs and capabilities of its people, an agrarian paradise from which the locals preach a return to simplicity and cooperative philosophy, and to reject approaching modernity. Many of them proselytize their own ideology in faraway lands, the Song of Communal Land.
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  Solvaan Teled are descendants of colonists who traveled far east to Solleria, a land shrouded in monster-filled mists, where they eventually integrated into the Ailor Regalian Empire, and became a cornerstone of its political and military landscape. The Solvaan are hunters and mercenaries, protectors of the people, and those who rejected the Allorn Empire's isolation in favor of cooperation with other peoples.
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  Llasada Teled are feared across the high seas. They were once Finul but were inspired by Prince Larason to turn away from Estelley worship, and into the maw of the Deep, an oceanic-horror faith. The Llasada are nearly exclusively pirates, corsairs, and cutthroats, taking from the weak what they can get their hands on, with their might-makes-right philosophy. They have even given parts of their body to the sea as merfolk.
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  Pelyon Teled are strongly intermingled with the Perrion Ailor in the similarly named lands, a chivalric knighthood-obsessed people who worship the concept of masculinity (regardless of gender) and have long abandoned delicateness in favor of brutishness and wroth. Their people serve in large mercenary armies, baptized in warfare, while their coin is spent on personal pleasures. Some still hold to Estelley, but most serve Regalia.
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  Presenna are the cornerstone of the Estelley faith and its priesthood, their homeland of Presena houses most of the ecclesiastic colleges and academies where nearly all ordained priests of the faith are trained. Presenna is a land ravaged by centuries of warfare, corsairs, and invasions, the religious population holding strong faith, their defenseless nature giving rise to a reputation for enlightened pacifism.
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  Lanlath Teled are conscientious objectors, Elves who were so repulsed with the Allorn Empire's crimes against the Asha, that they rejected the Empire and fled into the Lathan dimension from where to build their peaceful cities. From there, their ethics changed, and they re-opened the gates of Lathan to act as the moral guidelight of the Elves, using their safe havens to sabotage and combat the old and new Allorn Empire.