Okriti Highlanders

The Okriti highlanders are the various Okriti tribes inhabiting the highly mountainous east of Okrit.

History

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Culture

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Denominations

A multitude of different cultural and linguistic affinities are found within Okrit's highlands, with varying degrees of shared attributes among them, often in correlation to geography. The highlanders whom have had the most interaction with the Lowlanders both historically and contemporarily are the Kassafret, who occupy the a large area of the western highlands bordering the regions of Okso and Moklo. The Kassafret are the most ubiquitously known highland group due to their long history of interaction with the Lowlands, being often mentioned in the Ofot folk legends of the Gimrani Matafar.

Traditions

A variety of practices and cultural beliefs are shared amongst the Highlanders. While some of these are general traits which are shared with other Okriti cultures, multiple are characteristic of the highlands in particular, such as tattooing, body piercing as well as the preservation of body parts and corpses. It is a common belief that the end of each year is a time of great spiritual activity, and thus incurs a variety of ritual activities. Often, children born within the last month of the year are considered to have great spiritual power, and are often given talismans to protect them from malicious spirits during the month of their birth.

Along with this, the highland clans often believe that the body's individual components have spiritual power, and that one can enhance their overall power through modification of this bodyparts. This is often through tattooing or piercing, and sometimes both, as in the case of the Ukubians. Certain clans will remove and preserve certain body parts to be turned into talismans for this intended purpose, most often parts of the head, internal organs and parts of the genitalia, such as the foreskin.