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Sea Coscivians consider the sea their true home and show significant aversion to terrestrial life. Their traditional narratives describe the sea as a place of refuge from subjugation and oppression on dry land. Sea Coscivians have lived ashore in both modern and premodern times, though usually out of necessity. Even today, settled Sea Coscivian communities consider it improper, even detestable for an able-bodied man to live ashore full-time. | Sea Coscivians consider the sea their true home and show significant aversion to terrestrial life. Their traditional narratives describe the sea as a place of refuge from subjugation and oppression on dry land. Sea Coscivians have lived ashore in both modern and premodern times, though usually out of necessity. Even today, settled Sea Coscivian communities consider it improper, even detestable for an able-bodied man to live ashore full-time. | ||
Sea Coscivians have had mixed relations with other Coscivians and with non-Coscivian groups they encounter. Historically, settled port and coastal dwellers throughout the Coscivian world have been distrustful of Sea Coscivians as secretive and seemingly rootless drifters with a reputation for criminality and general unpleasantness. According to reports by governmental organisations and human rights NGOs, people of Sea Coscivian origin still face employment, housing, and other forms of discrimination. They have low levels of engagement with formal institutions such as labour unions, religious congregations, banks, and governments compared to other Coscivian groups, and according to a study funded by the government of | Sea Coscivians have had mixed relations with other Coscivians and with non-Coscivian groups they encounter. Historically, settled port and coastal dwellers throughout the Coscivian world have been distrustful of Sea Coscivians as secretive and seemingly rootless drifters with a reputation for criminality and general unpleasantness. According to reports by governmental organisations and human rights NGOs, people of Sea Coscivian origin still face employment, housing, and other forms of discrimination. They have low levels of engagement with formal institutions such as labour unions, religious congregations, banks, and governments compared to other Coscivian groups, and according to a study funded by the government of Xula State, they are the ''tuva'' most heavily involved in the {{wp|informal economy}} and face social problems arising from their reliance on unstable and thinly regulated employment. | ||
The Sea Coscivians are a segmental ethnic group divided into clans and lineages, and like all Coscivian peoples they are patrilineal and patrilocal. Generally speaking, the extended family or ''dóntra'' important to most terrestrial Coscivians plays little to no role in Sea Coscivian society. Beyond the nuclear family level, Sea Coscivian kinship is frequently {{wp|fictive kinship|fictive}}, with individuals and families becoming ritually initiated into clans and lineages into which they were not born, the latter being a rare approximation of {{wp|adoption}} in Coscivian civilisation. Clan and lineage ties, as well as marital ones and godparentage, form the backbone of social, political, and business networks in the Sea Coscivian community. However, the most important Sea Coscivian social institution is the ''impruv'' or "crew". Aboard a vessel inhabited or staffed entirely by Sea Coscivians, all adults or all adult males are members of the ''impruv'', and the ''impruv'' elects a ''kirstuv'' ("council") who elect the captain for the duration of the voyage. Sea Coscivians employed as crewmen on an ordinary vessel form their own ''impruv'' (though without a captain and usually without a ''kirstuv'') at the outset of the voyage, in which all Sea Coscivians aboard are obligated by custom to participate. In shore-dwelling communities, the ''impruv'' is a permanent body representing the entire Sea Coscivian population of a settlement or urban neighbourhood. A code of customary law called the Law of the Sea prescribes the basic rules for how ''impruya'' and ''kirstuya'' are to operate. How the Law of the Sea is remembered and interpreted varies only slightly across clans and regions, which has allowed Sea Coscivians of different backgrounds to quickly, easily form ''impruya'' as needed, and to avoid conflict between different families sharing a vessel or living in close proximity ashore. | The Sea Coscivians are a segmental ethnic group divided into clans and lineages, and like all Coscivian peoples they are patrilineal and patrilocal. Generally speaking, the extended family or ''dóntra'' important to most terrestrial Coscivians plays little to no role in Sea Coscivian society. Beyond the nuclear family level, Sea Coscivian kinship is frequently {{wp|fictive kinship|fictive}}, with individuals and families becoming ritually initiated into clans and lineages into which they were not born, the latter being a rare approximation of {{wp|adoption}} in Coscivian civilisation. Clan and lineage ties, as well as marital ones and godparentage, form the backbone of social, political, and business networks in the Sea Coscivian community. However, the most important Sea Coscivian social institution is the ''impruv'' or "crew". Aboard a vessel inhabited or staffed entirely by Sea Coscivians, all adults or all adult males are members of the ''impruv'', and the ''impruv'' elects a ''kirstuv'' ("council") who elect the captain for the duration of the voyage. Sea Coscivians employed as crewmen on an ordinary vessel form their own ''impruv'' (though without a captain and usually without a ''kirstuv'') at the outset of the voyage, in which all Sea Coscivians aboard are obligated by custom to participate. In shore-dwelling communities, the ''impruv'' is a permanent body representing the entire Sea Coscivian population of a settlement or urban neighbourhood. A code of customary law called the Law of the Sea prescribes the basic rules for how ''impruya'' and ''kirstuya'' are to operate. How the Law of the Sea is remembered and interpreted varies only slightly across clans and regions, which has allowed Sea Coscivians of different backgrounds to quickly, easily form ''impruya'' as needed, and to avoid conflict between different families sharing a vessel or living in close proximity ashore. | ||