THE PEOPLE, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE
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{How They View Themselves}
- Generally speaking, the people are a proud, steadfast bunch. They take others at their word, and when their own is given they hold to it. However they are not tolerant of breaches of social contract, and you can expect them to react to such things without caring if they're embarrassing someone.
- The High Lord's Family is an old one, and there is the belief that they go back to the girl of legend who found the Northwood. Whether this is factually true is impossoble to determine, but the lived reality is this family has a deep bond with the Northwood, as evidenced by the powers granted to the Firstborn. After all, if the Northwood didn't believe the family to be worthy, they'd never have been granted such boons.
- The Circles of Northwatch are a reclusive bunch. They are less concerned with politics or thrones or crowns, and are instead focused on the conservation of the natural world. It is customary that the noble families of the Caers intermarry with members of the druid circles, or otherwise give over members of their family to learn from the local Circle. This keeps both groups from becoming isolated from one another, as well as ensuring that public policy keeps the land in mind.
- The Neighbors in Northwatch are afforded a high deference, and any construction is done with the inout of the local Neighbor population. As such, many roads in Northwatch will suddenly curve around a tree or a boulder rather than remove the obstacle. Even the commoners hold to the knowledge that you don't simply barrel your way through somewhere without asking.
- The Watchmen view other provinces, and other Serenian nobles, as being as much their kin as anyone else. While there may be differences, and a whole lot of disagreements, it's their duty to keep the Queendom safe, and they take their duty seriously.
- The Monarchy is the representation of the unity of the Serenian people. While there may be some disagreements, and older oaths may take priority, Northwatch still has a duty to the crown and they manage to make it work even when they have to bend things a bit.
{How Others View Them}
- Many of the southern provinces of Serendipity look at the Watchmen as a wild breed, a stereotype that the Watchmen do not work very hard to break. Though many might consider them ill-mannered, their reputation for earnestness and integrity has most ignore their eccentricities, if only to be polite.
- Connlaoth despises them, as they continue to provide aid to any refugees that cross into their lands. Attempts to sabotage these operations have so far been unsuccessful.
{How They View Others}
- The province of Northwatch considers itself an old enemy of Connlaoth, and any official interactions between Northwatch and Vythe or Highheart are incredibly tense affairs.While they do not regard Connlaothian refugees with the same hostility as Connlaothian patriots, they do eye them with a fair bit of suspicion. Fearing the presence of spies and saboteurs, Connlaothians are usually encouraged to leave for Jadenshine or Moonspear, and forbidden from joining any mioitary operations in Northwatch.
- The Watchmen pay Adelans a distant kind of respect, due to Adela's part in the Threefold War. They haven't had direct contact in quite some time, and so have no specific opinions nor know very much about the individual Adelan territories.