Ethnic groups in Kiravia: Difference between revisions

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The Kandans have historically been associated with the Archepiscopal Church of Kiravia, which was born of a complicated (and still poorly understood) schism that separated the Archdiocese of Evira from the wider Coscivian Orthodox Church. Affiliation with the Archepiscopal Church is an important marker of Kandan identity, and Archepiscopal parishes form the nexi of many Kandan communities, though the denomination is multi-ethnic and a significant minority of Kandans remain Coscivian Orthodox or have converted to Roman Catholicism. Most Kandans also practice the Coscivian religions of Ruricanism or Iduanism to some extent.

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| dias_state      = [[Váuadra]], [[Pribraltar]], [[Æonara]], [[Krasoa Islands|Krasoa]], [[Saxalin]]

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The customary leader of the Kerēgulan people is the Speaker of the Houses, who is normally elected by the leaders of the seven Kerēgulan clans every 48 months.

The Sedhem are a North Coscivian ethnic group who have played a pivotal role in Coscivian-Kiravian history. The origins of the Sedhem as a distinct culture lie in the lowlands just beyond the southern end of the Northwestern Shield in Éorsa, where the ancestors of the Sedhem arrived as a primitive farming society and absorbed the autocthonous P'tar people. Over time, these early agricultural settlements developed into a tribal network linked by blood ties, a common dialect, and a shared group identity. By the XYth century, the Sedhem polity had evolved into a confederation of chiefdoms and became a tributary of the Second Coscivian Empire. It was during this period that Sedhem élites began to adopt elements of Imperial Coscivian literary and material culture, as well as the Læstorian religion that spread across Northern Éorsa, which they syncretised with their existing practices of {{wp|selenolatry}} and ancestor-worship. However, the flowering of Sedhem artistic and cultural life that followed came under strain towards the end of the century as the Sedhem confederation found itself at the intersection of the expanding kingdoms of Skāda, Venska, and Korska, which shared common North Coscivian cultural traits with the Sedhem but had adopted more sophisticated methods of warfare and social organisation from the Coscivian Empire to the south. [Became marginalised communities under "foreign rule", adopted (heterodox) Christianity more readily than neighbouring peoples, migrated in large numbers to the coasts to fidn work as sailors and fishermen]

===Serradan Coscivians===

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The '''Kulukusi''' are a native [[Punthite]] ethnic group indigenous to southeast [[Varshan]]. In ancient Punth, the Kulukusi built a rather sophisticated civilisation with an advanced understanding of mathematics, astronomy, agronomy, and metallurgy, but saw their civilisation destroyed and territory conquered by the Varshani God-King Burusho IV, concluding a centuries-old conflict between the two peoples that was at least partially rooted in the religious differences between [[Draft:Arzalism#Solar_Arzalism|the Varshani worship of the Sun]] and the Kulukusi reverence for the Moon. Despite a genocidal campaign of mass slaughter, human sacrifice, and enslavement, the Kulukusi were able to survive as a distinct people by fleeing into the southern and south-eastern mountain regions that form the southern boundaries of modern Varshan. During the [[Bootleg Wars]], the Kulukusi aided the Kiravian Army Rangers as guides, porters, orderlies, and auxiliaries in their fight against Varshan, finding common cause with the [[Coscivians]] who also have a long tradition of lunar rituals. In gratitude, the Kiravian and Azikorian governments have undertaken numerous programs to resettle the [[Kulukusi]] in their own territory.

Like Azikorians, Kulukusi are considered "honorary Coscivians" for the purposes of migration and nationality law.