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Wren also asked me to explain why blindness was considered a sign of wisdom by the Brutor. I'd say this would be because they don't belief a blind man is wholly blind, he is just blind to this world filled with deceptions and illusions (placed there by Loki?) and is thusly unefected by them.
He also looks in on himself and others and untaps a great wisdom as a result.

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Originally by: Nachshon

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I'd like to see that.

I also had an idea for a mark, which I wrote into a first draft story about my character undergoing the Voluval. The mark is normally displayed on the hand, and takes the form of a crooked line starting at the wrist, ultimately branchng into five lines that reach the fingers. It is called the Mark of Lightning, since it resembles a lightning bolt. It signifies that the wearer is to participate in forming a storm of some kind.

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Originally by: Taurevanime

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Okay I had a crazy idea going for the strong affinity the Minmatar seem to have with sails and I figured that there were no strong beasts of burden like horses or oxen on the Matari homeworld, apart from maybe the Brutor but I'll get to that later.
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And so the sail holds a special place in all Matari hearts and traditions?

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Originally by: Taurevanime

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Okay I had a crazy idea going for the strong affinity the Minmatar seem to have with sails and I figured that there were no strong beasts of burden like horses or oxen on the Matari homeworld, apart from maybe the Brutor but I'll get to that later.

So lets take the Sebiestor as an example they live on vast open steppes and of course they can walk across it, but with the invention of the wheel they have carts. But nobody wants to pull a heavy cart all day so they started putting sails on them to at least reduce the workload a little when they could. And in the artic lands they simply fitted skis to them.

Now the Verhioker took it a step beyond being the nomadic people that they are. They created large land sailing ships to traverse the dangerous deserts where they lived, transporting themselves and all their belongings at once from oasis to oasis.

The Brutor living on small tropical islands used sailing ships of course to move about.


I did some thinking and well cities and villages couldn't really be developed to larger levels because of the lack of beasts of burden. So the Sebiestor started building their towns on hillslopes and creating two markets as it were on them. On the crest was the market were goods would be bought and on the bottom the market where they'd be sold. This made ease of transporting goods throughout the cities easier at least. it also resulted in the first planned cities on Minmatar.

Because of their city planning and overall cunning the Sebiestor tribe grew larger and larger untill it eventually got in contact with the sea. After a course of decades maybe centuries a Sebiestor or Brutor ship got in contact with each other and after some initial misunderstanding (The sebiestor thinking the Brutor to be giants) the Brutor traded their oxen to the Sebiestor for other valluables of a kind, marking the start of true progress on the Matari mainland now that they would no longer be constraint by where their sailing carts could go, nor did they have to found cities on hills anymore.

However the oxen were strong and made the smaller land sailing vessels obsolete, the larger ones were still able to transport more goods quicker over larger distances. And so the sail holds a special place in all Matari hearts and traditions?

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