Editing Setting:Unified Setting/Faestir (section)

==Culture==

Bejwaere is a small settlement founded in a series of coastal caves north of the ancient ruins of Bahamut's castle, surrounded by dense wetland forest.  It is in a relatively remote part of the world so not many know it even exists, and fewer have ever been there.  The inhabitants keep mostly to themselves.  Vaess are the most likely to ever leave their homeland, questing the world in search of anything that might help the Faestir build a prosperous nation once more.

Because of the subterranean nature of Bejwaere, as well as the perpetual rain of Opossokarthel, Faestir have developed low-light vision. The darkness, combined with the verticality, of these places, makes them very hard for non-Faestir to traverse. Faestir will often jump twice their height while simply navigating the damp stone of Bejwaere.

Faestir care greatly for hats and other headgear, to the extent that not wearing one is worse than being naked in their society; the presence of other clothing being secondary to whether or not one is wearing a hat.

Faestir shun selfishness, seeing it as the greatest sin, and the one which caused the fall of the Draconians. The Faestir will not directly request anything, nor will they directly deny any request. To do either is a gross breach of decorum. A Faestir faced with a situation in which another race would request aid will instead merely hint that such aid would be appreciated. Other Faestir will understand this, and most will help if at all possible, but outsiders are often unaware anything has been requested of them. This leads the Faestir to view other races as crude and selfish, and outsiders to view the Faestir as unassuming and weak-willed.<br>
Despite these pretensions, Faestir are just as likely to act out of their own self interest as any other race. They merely avoid acknowledging it.

In Opossokarthel, the Faestir had a significant class divide to their society. The upper class traced its roots to the Vaess and the purity of their blood in being descended from them, but had adopted many individuals who had distinguished themselves in the military; wealthy merchants and successful artists could also see themselves introduced to the upper echelons of society through marriage. For the most part, the upper class held power through a monopoly on the "educated" professions such as medicine, law, politics and so on, as well as the army, the leaders of which were always of the upper class either through birth or the aforementioned adoption. The middle class of Opossokarthel was small, mostly composed of artists, treasure hunters, lesser military officers, merchants and other individuals who acquired wealth and power through interaction with foreigners. Finally, the lower class (colloquially referred to as "rainies" due to their outdoor work and their habitation of less waterproof homes) was derived mainly from the labouring professions.

Now, the Faestir have become to few in number and too closely knit for class distinctions to be maintained. Signs of class bias and differentiation remain (such as the distinct accent and rhyming slang previously used by the lower class), but the race's situation as a whole is too precarious for such things to survive much longer.