Hundurrin

The People of the Planes
Dogs, Wolves, Foxes, and Coyotes. These are the people of the lands called Talhaven, a large swath of land dominated by the wide-open Wayward Planes. These are the Hundurrin a people who value honesty, loyalty and tradition. Knights, warriors, and above all, the best friend you can ever have.

A People Born from Honesty
In the long ago, what is now known as the Hundurrin, were a fractured and wayward people. Separate and alone, they survived in small, isolated communities. That is until the Great Dishonesty happened.

These small bands of people came under attack by a malevolent force hell-bent on their destruction swept the lands. This force destroyed villages, bent cities to it's will, and set the Hundurrin on the precipice of destruction.

A small band of warriors under the banner of Fideo Growlsmith and his Order of The Knights Compaions, they fought the evil spreading through their lands with honesty, loyalty, and the Hundurrin way. They defeated the evil and banded their disparate groups together.

Every year the Hundurrin celebrate this victory with mass festivities. Banners, streamers and lanterns are all redied in excitement for the Night of Companions.

Culture
The Hundurrin are a very physical race. Greetings are done through big hugs, play fights, and bounding displays of affection.

Dress Code
The Hundurrin dress in thick linen clothes, farmed and processed locally. The linen is coloured, lightly for lower the class and more brightly for the upper-class. Layers also play an important role in Hundurrin culture, the more layers you have the richer you are.

For the men, knee-length tunics that curve on one side to mid-shin closed at the front with wooden toggles. Underneath a shorter tunic of thick linen. Trousers lose in fit drop down to their shins. The bottom of their trousers are tucked into a pair of Mukluks, thick leather shoes, mid-shin high and covered in fur. Around the waist is a tooled belt that has loops for pouches cut into the leather.

For the women, a dress of thick linen split at both sides and in the front underneath which is a kirtle. Tight brightly coloured stockings tied with leather thinging or cord protect the legs and their feet are covered with moccasins. Around their waist, if they are married, a tooled leather belt like that of their husband. If not, a rope belt of plain colour.

Single Hundurrin are encouraged to wear hoods as a sign of their availability. Young Hundurrin colour these brightly to attract attention from prospective mates.

Education
The Hundurrin value family education over that of standardised education. They pass on their history orally, though that is falling out of fashion now. Families will get together and narrate portions of their history, lessons learned, and valuable experiences over drinks and dinner.

They also value learning on the job. They believe that it focuses the mind and teaches in a way that the student can focus their studies to what they want to do with their lives.

Medicine & Health
The medicine of the Hundurrin is shamanistic in nature. Relying on herbs and incenses as well as hocus pocus to work. As such the healing in Hundurrin culture is hit an miss.

The Medicine Hund will feed or apply concoctions made from local plants, herbs, and spices to aid in the healing of individuals, this is often supported by chanting or stars aligning.

A growing community of Hundurrin are starting to challenge the status quo of medical expertise. Rather than the spiritual sudo-magic that the Medicine Hund these practitioners will use knowledge and science to heal. Often using their shamanistic medicine as a base just removing the magical veneer.

For Fun
The Hundurrin are a race of fun-loving animals. During the Night of Companions wrestling machetes, dances, food and drink are all in abundance.

The Hundurrin love to play physically demanding games. One such game is where two opponents will place both their hands on a stick. They will then try to wrestle the stick from their opponent's hands.

The Hundurrin play fast, lively music using double flutes and bodhran drums. Their dances are physical, often throwing their dance partners between them in a lively display.