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 *What are their major sources of wealth? : The Elgan are renowned as traders in rare goods and in the manufacture of handheld weaponry.
 *What are their religious beliefs? : They believe that their ancestors - all of them - are gods, meaning that the more time passes, the more gods that exist. Of course, with so many gods, a god in their society is not considered particularly remarkable, which isn't to say it isn't to be venerated. They believe that as part of the same culture as their ancestor-gods, they enjoy participation in the divine while still alive. This religious belief is the core of their communalistic nature.
+==Excerpt Regarding the Ry'nari==
+The Ry'nari are a contentious, tribal race whose culture is underpinned by a complex series of alliances of alliances between extended families.
+*Home System - [[Valdorn]]
+*Homeworld - [[Hororeon]]
+*Capital city - [[Ostari]]
+*Reproduction - Live birth, 11 month gestation period. Never more than one child at a time. Their children tend to have a high mortality rate in the first two years of life.
+*Lifespan - 100 years.
+*Preferred foods - They're biologically omnivores but, as you can discern from their their teeth - clearly evolved for shredding and ripping - meat is their preferred food.
+*Life priorities - Fostering a large family is a big one, perhaps driven by the fact that the females can only bear one child at a time, and that that child is more likely to die than survive its first two years.
+*Strong likes/dislikes - They have a strange relationship with music in that they don't appear to have the same kind of tonal recognition virtually all other sentient species do. Most music, to a Ry'nari, sounds like unstructured noise. Instead, they enjoy a type of atonal chanting called '[[kave]]' whose individual words or phrases have no overt meaning, but which are meant to build a series of suggestions in the mind of the listener.
+*Romantic relationships - In ideal circumstances, they bond for life, but the exigencies of existence in Starmourn sometimes dictate that the convention be broken with divorce and/or remarriage.
+*Societal structure - They live in a three-tiered structure. Family -> [[Tribe]] -> [[Horde]]. Family is what it sounds like. Tribes are collections of inter-related families, and a Horde is a collection of tribes allied together.
+*Treatment of 'others' - Mostly fine, though adults who haven't yet had children are regarded with a mixture of pity and disgust, and by middle-age, those without children are social pariahs.
+*Notable rituals - On the death of a horde leader, all the tribes gather for a multi-day bacchanalia called the [[Narangerel]] followed by selection of a new horde leader in a process called the [[Gomoran]]. Each of the tribes that wishes to contend for leadership puts forward a leader, and that leader assembles a group of six Ry'nari from his or her tribe. These groups of six then face off in combat, armed with ancient weapons, to determine who will lead the Horde. The prospective leaders themselves don't do battle - why kill off some of the strongest leaders in the Horde?
+*Social mobility - Economically, an enormous amount, but in terms of advancement in any kind of politics, you have to be part of a good family in a great tribe to have a chance to become a horde leader. However, the reality is that even socially 'low' individuals can wield great power by buying influence.
+*Entertainment - Nothing is more popular than a Narangerel and the following Gomoran, but the Ry'nari also, somewhat surprisingly to outsiders, revere abstract sculpture and are considered masters of it.
+*Government structure - [[Council of the Hordes]] - the Horde leaders make up the government. However, there have been times in the past when a single Horde leader has seized sole power. In particular, [[Harec Gankeot]] famously unified the hordes as [[Mogul]] and won the first war against the [[W'hoorn]]. They are currently ruled by a Mogul - [[Shima Sual]] (female).
+*Allies or enemies - The W'hoorn are a historical enemy of theirs, and few of the civilized races of Starmourn have seen as much conflict as the two have over the aeons.
+*Major sources of wealth - Production of the ubiquitous [[Quantum Power Cell|quantum power cell]] as well as huge architecture and engineering firms specializing in orbital structures.
+*Religion - They don't have a religion per-se, but they retain certain animist superstitions such that they're prone to feeling like objects have spirits and personalities, even when they "know" better. This leads them to occasionally treat items they are angry at like enemies to be broken...leading to said things being broken.
 [[Category:Shen]]
 [[Category:Nath-el]]
 [[Category:Elgan]]
+[[Category:Ry'nari]]
 [[Category:Art and Culture]]