Lecha
The Lecha have been observed by many as a beautiful folk, with tall builds, long silky fur and a great cultural focus upon the arts. While historically they have been persistence pack hunters for much of their written past the Lecha have kept cattle. As the story goes they did so to afford them more time to create art pieces upon beetle shells and weave clothing.
Many of their traditions revolve around craft with the most significant being the collar. When a Lecha reaches maturity before their third decade of life, at this stage their parents will work together to create a unique piece of jewlery, a combined design of the collars worn by each guardian. As a Lecha retire around the age of 300, an individual can go through multiple collars in life, and may update them to reflect the changes in their lives and the people around them. Family determines almost everything in a Lecha's life, one's heritage is their identity and determines the works they can create by pack law. If a member of the woodworking Trebique family wanted to become a mason, they would need to marry into a family such as the Bina'Hurin. Pack Law may be a social convention but it is enforced by shunning as to not allow family secrets or trade styles to be mimicked.
The Lecha homeland contains great expanses of prairie, raging rivers and lush forests. The far North hosts tundra and treacherous climbs all the way up to the beloved Mount Atmontseea, Firnus' tallest mountain. The landmark's sudden elevation hosts many dangerous monsters and deadly terrain, but the Lecha people see it's strength as a divine display. When any living thing dies devout Lecha say that the strength of that being is consumed by the killer. This power is known as 'The Shattered Divinity' and are the remnants of an old god that tore itself apart to give life to the world. The old rituals and traditions of consumption have been discarded in favor of a culture of respect, the reverence of elders, the deification of dangerous landmarks, and monsters all fall under common worship. While worshipping murderous rivers is often seen as a strange belief, many other cultures of Firnus have an obsession with the exports of Lecha families with nobility clamouring for the latest fasionable crafts.
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