1) The Abunese have different diets according to their social class
The diet of the Abunese is omnivore, although low class people mostly eat vegetables, fish and seafood, The paupers eat meat very seldom, because it's too expensive for them to afford. Very few have the privilege to eat meat, mostly the shepherds and the ones that have a stable. While the middle class usually eats meat three times per month, and the nobles usually eat meat frequently, although they also eat vegetables and fish, some of them don't like seafood because of their odor.
2) Every Abunese province has its own dialect, but one official language
Every province of Abun has its own dialect, although the Abunese speak all the same language, but the dialects differ a lot from eachother, and some people don't speak other languages than their traditional dialect. For example, a Fazan who speaks only his dialect but not the Abunese, won't understand what a Faywarite says. The Abunese language, used as an official language throughout the kingdom, is the dialect of the Enit province, where the capital is located, and it's used as official language in all the provinces. The Abunese have their own alphabet, which is written vertically and is read from the left column to the right one, and their punctuation is very minimal, for example they don't have the question mark nor the exclamation point.
City-states also have their own language and writing too. However, the most used international languages in Nakti are the Abunese, the Zonizan, the Rakashan and the Endranite.
3) The Abunese wear light clothes because of their climate
The climate of Abun is hot and dry. Abun is mostly made by deserts with some oasis and savannahs, especially in the Enit province. They don't have low temperatures and the Abunese winter is similar to our Spring, that's why the Abunese wear very little clothing.
Usually, the paupers wear simple cotton or linen skirts and sometimes leather sandals. Most of the paupers wear homemade jewelry made with coloured stones, leather and glass past. However, not all the paupers can afford a pair of sandals, and most of them walk perpetually barefoot, because in Abun, sandals are seen as upscale items. Middle class Abunese wear more complex outfits, such as multicoloured skirts, necklaces made by feathers or gold and earrings, while nobles wear layered skirts, luxurious jewels and headdresses made with feathers or gold pendants.
Usually, the Abunese men keep their chest bare, since their climate doesn't require them to cover it, although some of them wear a light scarf or a shirt usually made in linen. It's not common among nobles to be barefoot, indeed Kaliendra is also nicknamed "the Barefoot Queen" due to her refusal to wear sandals since she was a child, while it's more common to see barefoot people in the middle class.
4) Orphans and poverty in Abun
In Abun there's a high amount of orphans. Due to the past war with the Zonizans, there are a lot of them who grew in orphanages, which are run by the priests and they differ in conditions from eachother: some of them are well kept while other ones are old and run-down. There also are orphans living in the streets as beggars, and usually they beg for money as a living, some boys do petty thefts and the girls (especially if they've reached the age of the Sarenasha) dance in public or they work as prostitute. In Abun, a common way to escape from poverty is to become a priest, while a girl can choose to become a priest, a Wapi warrior or an "Ashath'Drau" literally a "pleasure lady", basically a prostitute working in brothels.
5) The architectural style of the Abunese and the organization of their cities
The Abunese architectural style is a blend of Egyptian, Aztec and Cretese architecture. About the Enit Royal Palace, imagine the Knossos palace, mixed with some Egyptian and Aztec styling cues, and you've got a clear idea of Abunese architecture. Nobles and mid-class citizens live in houses made with stone bricks, while the paupers live in wooden shacks or mud houses.
The streets differ a lot in width. While the main ones (Enit is structured a bit like a Roman city) are large and intersect with eachother in a cross-like shape, the secondary ones are thinner and garbled. Usually the Abunese main roads are paved, although some secondary ones have just dirt.
6) The Abunese don't know how to make reflective glass
Mirrors are available in Abun, but they're different from the ones we have on our planet. The Abunese use highly polished silver, bronze or brass surfaces as mirrors, and usually the most expensive ones are the ones made with bronze and silver. There are mirrors made with gold too, but very few people have them, such as Kaliendra.
7) Dogs are the most common pets in Abunese households
The Abunese don't have a standard choice for a pet, however the most common one is the dog. "One of the most friendly creatures ever" according to the Abunese, but cats and mouses are also used by pets. In the middle and low class people usually have a bird as a pet. Horses aren't considered as domestic animals, but more as workers and they are treated like that. Peasants usually use them in agriculture, and sometimes they are replaced by donkeys.
8) How the Sid, the Abunese currency, is made
The Sid coins are made in a league of gold and copper, and they have an hexagonal shape. On the first side there's the profile of the king or the queen who's currently ruling (in our case, Kaliendra is the current queen) and on the other side there's a stylised sun, which is sacred to Say'Rada, the Abunese goddess of life and knowledge and Patron of Abun. A single Sid coin weights 8 Sotin-Naia (8 grams). The Abunese coins don't have a hole in the center, but the Zonizan ones do.
9) An example of four traditional of hats worn by the Abunese (three of them with pictures)
There are various kinds of hats common in Abun. The most common one, both for men and women is the Uraya, an hat made by a linen sheet kept on the head with a leather wire and decorated with coloured feathers or pendants that can be either in glass paste or in other metals.
Another kind of hat is the Irom, usually common in the Faza province, which is a folded sheet of linen wrapped around the head with a rigid base, similar to an Egyptian headdress. It can come in various colours and various decorations. It's also used by priests: http://galleryplus.ebayimg.com/ws/web/301132291689_1_0...
Then there's an headdress that is usually worn by women, mostly in Faza and Faywar, although is considered as something fancy and exotic by the Abunese, the Hocah, an headdress made with pearls and glass paste: http://decotique.zoints.com/album/view/EgyptianFlapper...
10) The Abunese don't have surnames
In Abun there aren't surnames as we know them on Earth, but they use their clan names as surnames, because the Abunese families are called "clans" and not "families". That's why -for example- Queen Kaliendra's full name is Kaliendra Wacha of the Ahkis clan. Since in Abun the first name is more important than the clan name, people are usually addressed with their first name, and they're called with their first name regardless of their social status. The same clan organization of family and surnames is adopted in some city states too, such as Surak, Ald'Hin and Tingar.
If someone grew in a orphanage, he might adopt the clan name of the first priest who took him into the structure, while if the orphan grew in the streets, he'll be simply known with his name and using his hometown as a sort of replacement for his missing clan name.
This is the second part of the ten facts about the Abunese, that describe how many dialects have, how the Abunese cities are designed, their kind of architecture and clothing, what is their favourite choices of pets, etc.
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