☀️ Arselia and Akonia

— Can the benefits of a developed civilization be applied here? Although it's hard to say if anything would take root here; the environment is quite different, the lands are harsh, and overall, it's not very conducive to human existence. And the society is quite specific and strictly traditional. And vice versa. I would, of course, like the customs prevalent in Welfern to be closer to my own, but... The ideology is too contradictory to the local church; it's not at all like the Ikigai of Kalina. And as soon as I arrived and tried to gather information about the similarities between the cultures, I was directly threatened with retribution from the church if I were to pursue this topic further. The Patriarch himself was more tolerant, but even so, in the current situation, it doesn't seem feasible, either now or in the foreseeable future, which is, of course, very unfortunate. It seems that in Welfern, I can only forget my core ideals as a fantastic dream and try to adapt to the local culture as much as possible.

— Legate, although this title probably doesn't mean much to you,” Alaria understood that she had a good illustration at hand in the form of their Arselian enemy, but she didn't want to use such examples, “they are, in a way, special agents, whose authority was second only to the ruling elite, and they were the executors of their will. They were assigned the most dangerous tasks: whether it was eliminating powerful demons, retrieving ancient artifacts, or doing some dirty work that the public was not supposed to know about. Of course, as a child, I didn't even suspect the dubious aspects of this activity,” she decided not to say that this ambition remained with her even at a more mature age, “in the idealized image created in my childhood, they appeared more like heroic monster hunters. That is, the fantasy for a child is actually quite ordinary.

— We don't practice inter-racial marriages, so I don't know about that, and about the culture and the difference from the Empire... We have a custom during the wedding ceremony where the bride and groom take a ceremonial bow and arrow and shoot into the forest or the sea to seal their vows, and they don't do that in Margel.