(Created page with "{{NationInfobox |name = Bara-Me-Naru |image = |image_desc = |capital = None |ruler = Many |government = Councils of spirit-speakers |demonym = Bara-Me-Naru |adjective = Bara-Me-Naru |languages = Sea-Speak; Fanakaran dialects; |religions = Animism (wind and rain spirits); Beating Heart }} The '''Bara-Me-Naru''' {{Pronunciation|BAH-rah-may-NAH-roo}} are a Fanakaran people who live dispersed across the Wounds. Most of the Bara-Me-Naru, who are...") |
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== Demographics == | == Demographics == | ||
Tengu account for nearly all of the Bara-Me-Naru. Considerably fewer in number are the [[human|humans]] and [[gnomes]] within their communities. The ancestors of these tengu arrived from the [[Meklaw| | Tengu account for nearly all of the Bara-Me-Naru. Considerably fewer in number are the [[human|humans]] and [[gnome|gnomes]] within their communities. The ancestors of these tengu arrived from the [[Meklaw|east]] many centuries ago, long before the [[Andan Cuyucha|more recent arrival]] of other tengu to the [[Soul's End Islands]]. | ||
== Culture == | == Culture == | ||
=== Religion === | === Religion === | ||
Most Bara-Me-Naru adhere to a form of [[animism]] in which spirits of the wind and rain are given particular deference, communed with by their spirit-speakers, who are also the leaders of their communities. The spirits of typhoons are the greatest of these, and force of their wills often causes the spirit-speakers often fall into trance-like states as the storms approach their islands. Typhoons are considered to be accumulated knowledge of all wind and rain spirits in a wide area, | Most Bara-Me-Naru adhere to a form of [[animism]] in which spirits of the wind and rain are given particular deference, communed with by their spirit-speakers, who are also the leaders of their communities. The spirits of typhoons are the greatest of these, and force of their wills often causes the spirit-speakers often fall into trance-like states as the storms approach their islands. Typhoons are considered to be accumulated knowledge of all wind and rain spirits in a wide area, collected into a singularly powerful form that, if communicated with properly, is capable of imparting just as much wisdom as destruction. | ||
Worship of the [[Beating Heart]] is also found in some of their farther-flung villages in Ha-Rase-Metu. | Worship of the [[Beating Heart]] is also found in some of their farther-flung villages in Ha-Rase-Metu. | ||
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== Government == | == Government == | ||
Bara-Me-Naru communities are led by their spirit-speakers, who together consult | Bara-Me-Naru communities are led by their spirit-speakers, who together consult surrounding nature spirits for advice on how to lead those who look up to them. The role of spirit-speaker is not precisely hereditary, but the Bara-Me-Naru's strong tendency to teach their skills to their children, and not to others, often leads to this being the case in practice. | ||
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Latest revision as of 02:21, 3 July 2025
The Bara-Me-Naru (pronounced BAH-rah-may-NAH-roo) are a Fanakaran people who live dispersed across the Wounds. Most of the Bara-Me-Naru, who are overwhelmingly tengu, can be found in the Salt Spring Archipelago or the Chain, but other settlements exist as far away as Ha-Rase-Metu.
Demographics
Tengu account for nearly all of the Bara-Me-Naru. Considerably fewer in number are the humans and gnomes within their communities. The ancestors of these tengu arrived from the east many centuries ago, long before the more recent arrival of other tengu to the Soul's End Islands.
Culture
Religion
Most Bara-Me-Naru adhere to a form of animism in which spirits of the wind and rain are given particular deference, communed with by their spirit-speakers, who are also the leaders of their communities. The spirits of typhoons are the greatest of these, and force of their wills often causes the spirit-speakers often fall into trance-like states as the storms approach their islands. Typhoons are considered to be accumulated knowledge of all wind and rain spirits in a wide area, collected into a singularly powerful form that, if communicated with properly, is capable of imparting just as much wisdom as destruction.
Worship of the Beating Heart is also found in some of their farther-flung villages in Ha-Rase-Metu.
Language
Nearly all Bara-Me-Naru are fluent in both Sea-Speak and their own Fanakaran dialect.
Architecture, urbanization, and migration
Despite their wide geographical distribution, the Bara-Me-Naru are not nomadic. They instead live in villages of two to three hundred individuals, and rarely more. When a community grows too large a significant contingent ritually builds a fleet of sailing canoes and sets off into the ocean to find a new home far away. They still maintain close contact with each other, however, largely by way of Keleta-Ru traders.
The buildings within Bara-Me-Naru villages are almost always arranged in the shape of an S, curved around two bonfires that are kept burning almost continually.
Government
Bara-Me-Naru communities are led by their spirit-speakers, who together consult surrounding nature spirits for advice on how to lead those who look up to them. The role of spirit-speaker is not precisely hereditary, but the Bara-Me-Naru's strong tendency to teach their skills to their children, and not to others, often leads to this being the case in practice.