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So the first of the drekir tribal cultures to discuss is one that has been developed over a few years.
They're a doozy too
Shiny dance culture is a tribal culture found in what was once Western Michigan and was founded by the survivors of cities like Grand Rapids and Lansing who would form this new culture over the next 30 years (though their offspring would have a huge impact on it.
The Triangle of Scales
The Triangle of scales is the religion of the Shiny Dance tribes and believes that there is a cycle of eating. The raddir (known to them as the starfish) eat the spirits of the drekir upon death, the drekir eat the fish of the water, and the fish of the water eat the starfish. As such, the drekir believe they were blessed into the new world to take part in this holy Triangle of Scales.
Their diet is primarily reliant on fish, they do not believe in eating land animals as they are believed to of become wild souls due to their not eating fish. They will also make outfits known as "shiners" that are decorative garments of clothing made of fish scales that they have assembled to show off how many fish they have caught. If the weather does not permit (as Michigan tends to not be lovely weather all the time) they will wear these garments over more practical pieces of clothing.
Once every 20-40 days, a village will seek to hold a "Shiny Dance" which is a big party in which the youth of the village (15-50 years) gets together, cooking large amounts of fish, ingesting an alchemical drug known as "fisheye" and dancing around the fire to music. The shiny dance is called as it is from the fish scales that glint or "shine" from the firelight.
Historically the Shiny dance was started from the 2nd generation of drekir, who as they hit young adulthood would start hosting nightlong parties. These would eventually be correlated with recent good luck at varying points across the tribal villages and adopted as a religious practice in whole.
The Shiny Dance exists as something of a showoff for the drekir of a village, from showing off that they are good fisherdrakes (look at all these fish i caught and made into my shiner) to showing their sick dance skills and how they are "the best dancer in the village...Greg..." and to even show themselves off to try and earn a mate for the night. It is believed that this show of fish scales will earn the respect of the starfish (raddir) who will then supposedly send them good omens.
So the shiny dance is the most outward part of their culture so figured I would draw it
or specifically redraw it. As the original drawing doesn't line up with the reset canon much at all. It is weird to redraw something like that for me, though the actual culture fits in pretty well with the reset culture and i just needed a couple drawings to help show it in this context.
They're a doozy too
Shiny dance culture is a tribal culture found in what was once Western Michigan and was founded by the survivors of cities like Grand Rapids and Lansing who would form this new culture over the next 30 years (though their offspring would have a huge impact on it.
The Triangle of Scales
The Triangle of scales is the religion of the Shiny Dance tribes and believes that there is a cycle of eating. The raddir (known to them as the starfish) eat the spirits of the drekir upon death, the drekir eat the fish of the water, and the fish of the water eat the starfish. As such, the drekir believe they were blessed into the new world to take part in this holy Triangle of Scales.
Their diet is primarily reliant on fish, they do not believe in eating land animals as they are believed to of become wild souls due to their not eating fish. They will also make outfits known as "shiners" that are decorative garments of clothing made of fish scales that they have assembled to show off how many fish they have caught. If the weather does not permit (as Michigan tends to not be lovely weather all the time) they will wear these garments over more practical pieces of clothing.
Once every 20-40 days, a village will seek to hold a "Shiny Dance" which is a big party in which the youth of the village (15-50 years) gets together, cooking large amounts of fish, ingesting an alchemical drug known as "fisheye" and dancing around the fire to music. The shiny dance is called as it is from the fish scales that glint or "shine" from the firelight.
Historically the Shiny dance was started from the 2nd generation of drekir, who as they hit young adulthood would start hosting nightlong parties. These would eventually be correlated with recent good luck at varying points across the tribal villages and adopted as a religious practice in whole.
The Shiny Dance exists as something of a showoff for the drekir of a village, from showing off that they are good fisherdrakes (look at all these fish i caught and made into my shiner) to showing their sick dance skills and how they are "the best dancer in the village...Greg..." and to even show themselves off to try and earn a mate for the night. It is believed that this show of fish scales will earn the respect of the starfish (raddir) who will then supposedly send them good omens.
So the shiny dance is the most outward part of their culture so figured I would draw it
or specifically redraw it. As the original drawing doesn't line up with the reset canon much at all. It is weird to redraw something like that for me, though the actual culture fits in pretty well with the reset culture and i just needed a couple drawings to help show it in this context.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Fantasy
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 1280 x 853px
File Size 248.8 kB
So since these Michiganites formed a religion around fishing, does that mean a lot Drekir tribes from religions heavily based on what's nearest to them? Does this mean tribes in the Dakotas formed a religion around what remains of Mount Rushmore? Do you have an idea about what societies formed around natural splendor's like The Grand Canyon, The Red Wood Forests, and swamps of the North American Southeastern Seaboard? Are these too many questions all at once?
No not exactly, the religions of the drekir vary in their origin, in part due to the environment but also from other factors, what balar, obelisks, sivilao, etc. are in the region. What the preexisting culture and their religious and cultural values were and how those might influence a survivors interpretation of their new situation, etc.
The Dakoner of the Dakotas actually have a nomadic lifestyle with a general belief that it is through Wyrms (what became of sheep) that god can see them, believing that god drekified them to humble them and that, through gods eyes seeing through the wyrms, they hope to adhere to Gods new plan
Likewise the Preists of Falmrit in Southern Idaho believe that the one true god (they call Falmrit) only listens to those who prove their stoic resolve.
The Djinnists of Detroit, just east of the Fisherdrakes actually, have a religion built on more islamic roots, and they worship the demigod bal Lesavira of Lake Erie, believing Lesavira to be one greater djinn sent to guide them in their arc of redemption.
So religions form off a lot more than just what is nearby, there is a lot of preexisting cultural and religious contexts, environmental aspects, lifestyle and cultural aspects as well as individual groups spreading specific superstitions and beliefs in the time after the awakening.
The Drekir of the Grand Canyon are part of a larger culture of tribes collectively known as "gambler culture" which stretches from where Las Vegas once was to the Grand canyon. The Gambler name is mostly due to their superstitions about luck though they mostly believe that a prejag from a distant sivilao realm (whom they call The Hydra) is the one who warped their world and the people of it. Every year they send tributes to the sivilao realm and it's prejag. The lifestyle itself is a pastoralist nomadic culture with small drekir dens migrating through the desert, they mostly herd the giant serpent lindir.
There are a lot of cultures in the Southeastern swamps, partially thanks to the fact the swamps extend far further inland. The main tribal cultures are the Blaklaw tribes of the Floridian peninsula, who often build floating boat villages from reads and wood, hunting the dangerous giant amphibians of the region. The Blaklaws believe that God had abandoned them due to their indulgence of hedonistic pleasures (IE Every modern thing) and they have since turned their worship towards two new gods, Samuel whom they believe lives in the sun and Raum whom they believe is the demon of the swamp (Who is actually rylim, a bal that obsesses in rot and decay)
There is also the Cajoise that are spread amongst the coastlines of Florida, Alabama, and Lousiana deep in the swamps and coasts that had swallowed New Orleans thousands of years ago. There isn't a ton of details yet on these folks though but they do exist!
Further West and you run into the City State of New Dalla,s held by the Cydonians which is a whole other thing I dont want to get into right here. and further north you run into the Preacher Tribes of Appalachia which again, not really relevant to the question so ill skip them.
The Dakoner of the Dakotas actually have a nomadic lifestyle with a general belief that it is through Wyrms (what became of sheep) that god can see them, believing that god drekified them to humble them and that, through gods eyes seeing through the wyrms, they hope to adhere to Gods new plan
Likewise the Preists of Falmrit in Southern Idaho believe that the one true god (they call Falmrit) only listens to those who prove their stoic resolve.
The Djinnists of Detroit, just east of the Fisherdrakes actually, have a religion built on more islamic roots, and they worship the demigod bal Lesavira of Lake Erie, believing Lesavira to be one greater djinn sent to guide them in their arc of redemption.
So religions form off a lot more than just what is nearby, there is a lot of preexisting cultural and religious contexts, environmental aspects, lifestyle and cultural aspects as well as individual groups spreading specific superstitions and beliefs in the time after the awakening.
The Drekir of the Grand Canyon are part of a larger culture of tribes collectively known as "gambler culture" which stretches from where Las Vegas once was to the Grand canyon. The Gambler name is mostly due to their superstitions about luck though they mostly believe that a prejag from a distant sivilao realm (whom they call The Hydra) is the one who warped their world and the people of it. Every year they send tributes to the sivilao realm and it's prejag. The lifestyle itself is a pastoralist nomadic culture with small drekir dens migrating through the desert, they mostly herd the giant serpent lindir.
There are a lot of cultures in the Southeastern swamps, partially thanks to the fact the swamps extend far further inland. The main tribal cultures are the Blaklaw tribes of the Floridian peninsula, who often build floating boat villages from reads and wood, hunting the dangerous giant amphibians of the region. The Blaklaws believe that God had abandoned them due to their indulgence of hedonistic pleasures (IE Every modern thing) and they have since turned their worship towards two new gods, Samuel whom they believe lives in the sun and Raum whom they believe is the demon of the swamp (Who is actually rylim, a bal that obsesses in rot and decay)
There is also the Cajoise that are spread amongst the coastlines of Florida, Alabama, and Lousiana deep in the swamps and coasts that had swallowed New Orleans thousands of years ago. There isn't a ton of details yet on these folks though but they do exist!
Further West and you run into the City State of New Dalla,s held by the Cydonians which is a whole other thing I dont want to get into right here. and further north you run into the Preacher Tribes of Appalachia which again, not really relevant to the question so ill skip them.
I take it from the way it's spelled, the Cajoise speak a new form of Creole, kind of like the Asteroid mining "Belters" from that popular tv sci-fi drama The Expanse? Also I've been wondering, but I'm too lazy to look up, is the Dragonscape something you migrated from your dead account, or a pre-existing crowdsourced fictional setting that you like setting stories in?
Yeah there are a lot of dialects, creoles, pidgins, and linguistic shifts that happen over the decades, the Cajoise do speak a newly formed language that grew from their french-english creole. The Scraelinger speak a language I refer to as "Alglao" which was born from the mix of English and Sivilao Eldimrag. Even languages that aren't creoles tend to turn into heavy dialects, Appalachian Yandergand isn't understandable to a normal English Speaker. Even when it is mutually intelligible with english its usually difficult, especially as time goes on and linguistic drift continues.
Though thats stuff that more happens over the first 50 years and isn't really there in the comics yet.
The Dragonscape is my setting that I made back in 2018 or so and migrated from my dead account. There are a lot of folks in a dragonscape discord server that have contributed their lore and ideas and whatnot though at the end of the day it is my own setting from start to finish. It has changed a lot and this account more or less has a different "canon" of the dragonscape.
It is a setting I will admit I take some pride in, I've enjoyed making and writing and worldbuilding etc. it's pretty great
Though thats stuff that more happens over the first 50 years and isn't really there in the comics yet.
The Dragonscape is my setting that I made back in 2018 or so and migrated from my dead account. There are a lot of folks in a dragonscape discord server that have contributed their lore and ideas and whatnot though at the end of the day it is my own setting from start to finish. It has changed a lot and this account more or less has a different "canon" of the dragonscape.
It is a setting I will admit I take some pride in, I've enjoyed making and writing and worldbuilding etc. it's pretty great
I can tell you take pride in it, it's literally so meticulously well thought out and detailed that I thought it was the work of a dedicated community, rather than ONE creator taking a few ideas here and there from online friends and spectators. You're kind of a creative genius, and I wish I had your creative drive.
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