Nouveau Thuillean Cultural Artifacts

Affection and Romance

Most of the humans show romantic attraction fairly similarly throughout the world, despite their separation over time and space: They give compliments, then do favors, then give gifts, have long talks into the night about their childhood traumas, and then blurt out a confession with their propinquity is high enough.

Northerners are a lot less touchy. They're more about subtle glances, licking your lips, brushing hands, finding excuses to touch, signaling each other with fans and glove placements... unfortunately, this isn't very friendly to those who struggle with this kind of subtle language. While writing and singing songs for those you love is a very common Saegen tradition (though it's seen as "common" in Thuille and is only for those already in relationships).

Marriage

In Nouveau Thuille, marriages are mostly about dictating who gets your stuff when you die and are a chance to flex on your neighbors with a party. This is also the case for Saegen marriages - they're basically legal affairs with some ceremony attached to them. You're not technically supposed to have kids (and therefore, sex) before marriage because then they won't get your stuff if you die.

The "Ei" Hand

Holding up three fingers and then pressing them down with your other hand is how you flip people off in Nouveau Thuille. Alternatively, you can bite them at the person, but this can also be flirting and is not purely offensive.

These three fingers come from the symbol for "ei" vowel which is the symbol for wood/tree and that's a euphemism for penis.​

The one-handed sign is somewhat common amongst all classes - used liberally by the lower class and less so by the upper class, but neither is it a grave insult. Amongst the lower class, the two-handed flip-off might start a fight - it's basically saying, "Fuck you also I don't even need to have my hands on weapons - I only need to flip you off". Amongst the upper class though, it's completely unacceptable and a lower class person flipping off a higher class person could end in them dying

On the word "Friends"...

In Nouveau Thuillean, "Jeimrettes" means "little friends" and is used both for acquaintances and best friends. You can tell which someone means depending on how bitchy they sound when they say it.

To just avoid offending anyone, "Jeimre" for "friends" ensures you mean it well.

An Eaten Noble Joke

Visoi marnui the duis chevalicina Visinille seucleimita litte.

A lord asked if the beautiful lady would marry him.​

Les vigui, "Fitte seucleima, vilaralen vagra il cuitr gesvoilie d'eu. Cuitreun eva villelan?"

"In order to marry (me), you should/must fight with(against) four hounds of mine. Can you have victory?"

​"Cuitre!"

"Four!"/"I can!"

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Gensuin litte.

They ate him.

The Northern Calendar

The North divides the year into four seasons, 30 day months (3 per season) (6 days to a week, 5 weeks to a month) and 6 days at the end of the year which do not belong to any month, one for each god and the last day for all of them--Yuletide and the Winter Solstice. That is the new year. Every 4 years, the first 4 days of Winter are "given up to the gods" and the Calendar jumps to the 4th of Winter.

Nouveau Thuille has declared it to be the year 412 DE (412th year of the Deplan d'Eime d'Thuille aka. Destruction of the Empire). Before that is known as AR (Aivina Roi, before the king).