The Badieh Badawie [Culture/Herd IT directory /IT]

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The Badieh Badawie Cultural Interest Thread Hub




A land of Scarves, bells, the exotic scent of the Desert Rose awaits....

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This is a Cultural IT Hub

But what does that exactly mean?

The Badieh Badawie is NOT a herd, but rather a culture encompassing multiple herds, each with their own Sub Culture, history, mythos and rules. There are only a few requirements for it.

1) They Dwell in the deserts and Badlands, living a mostly nomadic life except under unusual circumstances.
2) They have bells and Headscarves.
3) Each herd that is officially a Badieh Badawie member has a representative that helps prevent clashes over resources.

There are some herds that are closely intertwined with The Badieh Culture. And most herds are run by different members. I'd love to get some interactions between people, share ideas, and see what we can make as a group (and give chances for people to get into families or the heart and root of a herd.)

 

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Encompassing Rules for Creating
a Sub-Herd in the Badieh Badawie Culture

• BELLS AND HEADSCARVES ARE A MUST (Though CAN be worn in RP form only if your soquili is premade and lacks any): Culturally its to keep track of each other in the sandstorms and are easy to reach to keep sand out of the nose. HOWEVER if the soquili is already existing but lacks a place to be until now, you can RP them with the scarves and perhaps in the future get them added for real if able). The more bells they have, the more independent wealth an individual has. Bells are often used as a source of currency, and much are bought by trading resources to hippogryphs or raccoons.
  
  
• The Badieh Badawie are, by name, Desert Nomads. The majority of the herds are spread out and travel about.. However, some herds/parts of herds are often in the Badlands.
  
  
  
• Each herd that is a member of the Badieh has an Elected Diplomat who stays in the badlands and acts as a council member and help deal with conflicts between herds in a peaceful manor. Please post your Diplomat (existing/Non existing)
  when you Apply
  
• Please Follow the Traditions of the sub-herd you are applying for.
  
  
• Naming conventions of herds are usually Spanish, Arabic, Italian or short made up names. Surnames are COMMONLY USED: Usually the first name goes by the mothers naming convention while the Surname is the fathers. (Though in the Debbani herd, there are no surnames.) However kids are sometimes named after Outsiders who helped/are friends of a family member and this might result in a different set of naming conventions. Pay attention to what you're applying to!
  NOTE: The naming convention only counts for those born within the herd with no outsider influence. People who joined one of the herds from another culture, are born to cross cultural parents, or are from a connected herd (Such as the Debbani and the Gobii)
  
  RESOURCES: Arabic Names | Arabic Star Names | Spanish names | Italian Names
  
  
  
  Appearances
  
  
  
• Dominant Breeds/mixes
  
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  Familiars: Pronghorns, Birds, Snakes, Lizards, Rabbits, Raccoons, Mountain Lions, bats, prairie dogs, Mice, foxes, Goats, buffalo, Bobcats, wolves and Ferrets are common companions and many are equal members within some herds or have a pack, pride, or flock of their own.
  
  Some river otters live in the oasis's and, along with some tree squirrels, in the forested narrow rivers of the marketplace territory in the foothills of the western mountains, where scrub brush and forest has sprouted near the dry grasses of the badlands. Those who live in the mountains may be bonded with Small bears.
  
  Commonly Found: Regulars, Winds, Usdia, Imps
  
  Uncommonly found: Cerynei, Cerylona (Cerynei with Kalona horns like antelope), Half-kirin (No scales or horn), Half-uni/Alicorn (No horn), Putti, Nymph, Quilin, Hippogryphs, Ulun'suti (USUALLY Earth or water) (Over the years, more Hippogryphs and Ulun'suti have joined the many herds and integrated or were born into the culture),
  
  Rarely members: Unicorns, Kirin, Kalona-mixes (good), half-Angeni (One set of wings) and Domainless angeni mixes (One set of wings), Flutters
  
  Extremely rare: Mutant, Pure Angeni (With or without domain), Kalona (Evil/neutral/insane-- ALWAYS A MEMBER OF THE DEBBANI - If good/kind they can join other herds), Charmed skinwalkers
  
  ULTRA rare: Kelpi, Nixie, Seathi, Mer
  -- due to the desert and badlands being arid and hot, thus making it difficult/impossible for them to travel there without it being a costly affair of water filled jugs and water suti. They can be perminant residents of a single river (near the marketplace) or of the oasis's, though most of those are not truly of the Badieh Badawie culture but rather a connected but separate culture.
  
  
  NEVER a member: Uncharmed Skinwalkers (they don't join herds. They can show up occasionally, but being loners and dangerous, they're not part of the culture. Charmed as posted above, charmed members can join)
  
  
  
  
  
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  Superstition: like a black cat

  To be born with a dark coat meant you had to waste more resources to survive, Due to darker coats absorbing sunlight rather than reflecting it off and were thus considered unlucky, an omen of death and ill-fortune, much like a black cat.
  
  As this unfortunate stereotype developed in olden days, the dark coated members of society were outcast and left to pick on the scraps and do the unsavory work, forming the Debbani herd.
  
  Thankfully, much of the Bedieh Badawie have stepped away from this behavior, though a large portion, including the Debbani, hold this superstitious belief, and those with Darker fur do have a harder time in the desert unless they are provided well enough for with pale drapes of cloth to reflect the sun. The Majority of Dark furred members of the Bedieh culture can trace their roots eventually back to either a member of the Debbani OR to a family that couldn't bear to look down on a child that, due to a recessive gene or a mutation, was born with a darker coat.
  
  
  

  
  
  

  The Common Coat

  The most common colors are differ depending on the family or herd, but tend to be middle of the road. All levels of society, from the upper crust to the most pitiful of members can be within this range. Pay attention to the herd you're applying to! They may have a color scheme!
  
  

  
  

  RARITY

  
  Extremely pale colors
  Pale colors is considered exotic, Lucky, and 'fortunate', a stereotype of nobility and the upper class, due to the fact the majority of those born into old fortune or mated into wealth tend to be dominantly pale in their coats.
  
  The reasoning behind it is because, back in ancestral times, MOST of the foals that are white do not overheat in the sun of the desert with their white coats reflecting the heat rather than absorbing it, yet also still keeping them warm at night, thus requiring fewer resources to keep them alive. Having to use fewer resources to keep your children alive meant you had a better chance of affording luxury items.
  
  Due to it being a desirable trait, those who were well to do sought the good fortune of an easy to keep family or an 'exotic' lover. Eventually this lead to nobility having a higher level of white in their coats, and lower classes finding the color to be good fortune and beautiful in its members.
  
  A member of the Debbani born pale is celebrated, but often traded to be raised by another herd for resources for their own survival, to give the child a better life. Though some may hold onto them in hopes of rising their families status by grooming them to appeal as a noble's mate and escaping the herd -- sometimes with good intentions, and sometimes with wanting to take advantage of their new in-laws.
  
  
  
  
  
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Herd Concept Application Form
Please get confirmed before you post your thread

Posting Herd Concept

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[b]HERD NAME:[/b]
[b]Reasoning for Herd Name:[/b]
[b]Personal Culture:[/b]
[b]Herd History:[/b]
[b]Requirements to join:[/b]


[b]Root Family: [/b] If Not Applicable post N/A
[color=white]----[/color] [b]Open custom applications or Invite only?[/b]


[b]Trademark item:[b]If Not Applicable post N/A
[b]List of references:[/b] for Herds personal 'look' for those customing in
[b]Color Scheme Limits:[/b] If Not Applicable post N/A
[b]Breed Limits:[/b] If Not Applicable post N/A

For Approved Herds!

[color=green][b]HERD UPDATE![/b][/color]
[b]List of changes:[/b]

[code][color=white]---[/color][*] [b]HERD NAME[/b] : ([b][url=]LINK[/url][/b])
[b]Summary:[/b] Keep it short and simple
[b]Alpha:[/b] Petname (Username) | TAG or QUEST
[b]Representative:[/b]Petname (Username) | TAG or QUEST

Some Ideas that I have for Badieh Herds

(But no one is currently working on making)

• The Dalit: -Non Badieh herd- A Herd dominated of Water Suti (pure and Mixes) that travel through the desert rescuing those who have been separated and bringing them to the various Oasis to wait for another herd to help them, and sometimes transporting those who need water more than others. They circle the Desert once a year before returning to their camp in the Hippogryph's Ancestral Nesting Grounds, though those with wings may fly to visit various herds on their own. Newly formed
  
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Herd Concept Thread/Quest Directory

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• The Amachi Traders: (LINK) *OPEN*
  Summary: The Amachi Traders is both For the Desert Born members of the Amachi clan and their partners, and part the 'business'. full of unrelated employees of the Transporting Messages, getting and trading exotic goods, and providing services; From exotic incense, obsidian, and shells from over the western mountains or the far eastern side of the desert, to song and dance to entertain, and the delivery of messages to far off territories. A generally open and friendly business. You can even apply an idea to quest for a member of the Amachi family!
  Alpha: Fallo Amachi (Mindsend) | TAG
  Representative: Sabras Amachi (Mindsend) | TAG
  
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• Rasheeka Bayda : (LINK) *Currently WIP @_@*
  Summary: A Shining white herd of Old Wealth and baron Sheikh, one way to describe this herd is to say it is Slytherin in nature: not all are good, not all are evil, but they are obsessed with the old ways and the purity of their color. To have a high rank/noble status within this herd, members MUST be dominantly white/Lightly colors (Super pale blues, pinks etc) in their base colors. Head/neck/shoulder scarves and wraps are usually more decorative than functional.
  Alpha: Petname (Username) | TAG or QUEST
  Representative:Petname (Username) | TAG or QUEST
  
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• The Schatzi Troupe : (LINK)
  Summary: The Troupe is comprised majorly of entertainers, with a few who help support the entertainers in some form or another. They begin training their young almost as soon as they leave their baskets in the various styles of the entertainment the provide. Usually each family in the herd specializes in one form or another, passing them on to their children. The most talented in the herd is generally the wealthiest, landing more contracts to ply their trade than the less talented. Every performer is also expected to pay a share of their earnings to the chief family as well, a tribute of sorts for the chief securing the contract and awarding it to the performer. While not all in the herd can provide entertainment, the herd does provide for them. No one goes hungry, they just don't eat as much as others.
  Alpha: Ambrogio Schatzi (Kaliskanny) | QUEST
  Representative:Ambrogio Schatzi (Kaliskanny) | QUEST
  
  
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• HERD NAME : (LINK)
  Summary: Keep it short and simple
  Alpha: Petname (Username) | TAG or QUEST
  Representative:Petname (Username) | TAG or QUEST
  
  
  
  Non-Badieh but connected
  
  
  
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• The Debbani: (LINK) *Currently WIP @_@*
  Summary: There are some diamonds in the rough, and then there are some that, if they were human, would be called cut throat thugs. The Thieves Guild and their blackmarket exists within their territory, and the Debbani herd land is often filthy and disease ridden, but sometimes one may find the upper class looking to hire a few good people out of the waste into better lives or, as the wealthy aren't always made of good people, looking to make some fun out of those who cannot defend themselves as few would dare to retaliate against those with more power over them.
  
  Alpha: ??? Unknown- the Debbani tend to be ruled by individual families within the 'caste' and often bicker amongst themselves.
  Representative: -Not Applicable as they're considered not a part of the Badieh Alliance as many of the Debbani are anarchists.
  
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• Gobiidae Sarab : (LINK) *Currently WIP @_@*
  Summary: A small smattering of Nixie, Seathi, and their hybrids found in the oasis Springs, the waterways connected together with an underground cave system. These Nixie and seathi are small even for their own breeds, and are incapable of leaving their territory outside of the cave system and the land surrounding their springs. Unable to leave on their own, so can only interact with each other, visitors of the smattering of oasis springs, and the familiars and possibly other Usdia breeds that have evolved smaller to live on the limited resources of their territories.
  Alpha: Petname (Username) | TAG or QUEST
  Representative: Not a Member of the Badieh.
  
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• Gadwa Leila : (LINK)
  Summary: The Gadwa Leila are an exclusive, underground group of organized thieves that lurk within the Debbani. They exist in a chain of command for efficiency, and while most wealth and resources are generally shared in a communal pool to be sure each member is taken care of, those who go above and beyond are always rewarded a little extra for their efforts. Freeloaders are not tolerated; unless sick, injured, or elderly, all members are expected to pull their weight. They believe that if a thief is skilled enough, all they should need to rely on is the silver of their tongue, the blackness of the night, and the weight of their gold to be successful -- violence is for desperate amateurs and should be avoided, but not at risk of one's life. The Gadwa Leila are a family, and to cross one is to cross them all. They do not rob each other, and they do not steal from the poor.
  Alpha: Isra (Calixita) | TAG
  Representative: N/A. Not part of the Badieh Alliance.
  
  
  Guilds, Sects, and Orders
  
  
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• Gadwa Leila : (LINK) *Currently WIP @_@*
  Summary: The Gadwa Leila are an exclusive, underground group of organized thieves that lurk within the Debbani. They exist in a chain of command for efficiency, and while most wealth and resources are generally shared in a communal pool to be sure each member is taken care of, those who go above and beyond are always rewarded a little extra for their efforts. Freeloaders are not tolerated; unless sick, injured, or elderly, all members are expected to pull their weight. They believe that if a thief is skilled enough, all they should need to rely on is the silver of their tongue, the blackness of the night, and the weight of their gold to be successful -- violence is for desperate amateurs and should be avoided, but not at risk of one's life. The Gadwa Leila are a family, and to cross one is to cross them all. They do not rob each other, and they do not steal from the poor.
  Alpha: Isra (Calixita) | QUEST
  Representative: N/A. Not part of the Badieh Alliance.
  
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• Gawaiz Dirayat : (LINK) *Currently WIP @_@*
  Summary: More of a philosophy than a herd, Gawaiz Dirayat is a spread out group of mystics that practice divination and healing arts with the help spirit guides. The hierarchy consists of a handful of traveling masters that select gifted foals to become students of their ways.
  Alpha: While there is no true Alpha, these are the current Master Gawaiz Dirayat.
  Caioaqug (StarieMichie) | QUEST
  Representative: N/A As a religious order
  
  
  

 

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Link

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Other ITs, Families, and plots

Want to have your family and/or Herd concepts or plot pages here posted here? Just ask! biggrin


~~The Dark Brotherhood~~
~~The Traveling Reenactment Herd~~
~~The Flock~~


 

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Open!

Feel free to chat and ask questions!


And I'd LOVE To hear ideas for the Amachi Herd especially, but also brainstorm for the other culturally connected herds that 'exist' in the lore already but dont actually have memberspages finished and set up.  

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*wiggles* Anyone want to chat about the concepts? Questions? Comments?  

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*wiggles a little*  

[Faithofthefallen]

xD Mind, your wiggling has shaken me out of my thread stalking. I absolutely love these plots, the detail in all the herds is amazing, and makes me itch to come up with a character so I can get involved, plus I would love love a chance to custom into the Amachi family, or the Rasheeka herd for that matter! I have some ideas cooking, but they need work before I can post, when I get home tonight I'll try to piece everything together into something cohesive ^-^  

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OMG A RANDOM ENCOUNTER! 8D *throws pokeball* Go Fallo Amachi!

Fallo: ..... <_< But I'm not a pokesoq.

Your grandson is a Chimecho, so you count neutral *pokes*

Fallo: ... 9w9

Haha, Anyway! 8D Its awesome to know there's interest in it. I've been trying to set up the IT pages for the other herds, so far only Amachi is officially written up, and the Gobiidae Sarab have some important things written up, but are also filled with Placeholders. The Rasheeka are fairly simple though "Mostly white/super pale colors and rich and superficial snobby ponies obsessed with purity of their bloodlines and find the more blinding white you got the better Slytherin-wannabe's/Analogy for how some forms of nobility get about their 'breeding'/ponies symbolizing socialites, heirs and those famous for being famous and spend most of their time just hosting parties and smoozing." XD

The Debbani are certainly a complex herd, ranging form diamonds in the rough to cutthroat bandits, those born to poverty that can work their way up.  

[LunaRei_SilverBlood]

So excited right now >.> <333  

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8D So am I! Especially since people are starting to come out of Lurking haha.  

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SURPRISE! PLUSHIES FOR THOSE PAYING ATTENTION

For FaithoftheFallen and LunaRei, you get Semi-custom Plushies for having posted here. Please give me Some likes, Dislikes, Which of the herds you want them to be part of, and About three colors (Rainbow counts as one. White and black are free)

For others who are poking their heads in. (PLEASE NOTE: YOU ONLY GET ONE BADIEH BADAWIE PLUSHY Unless you are given one specifically as a gift after winning one of the premades OR its a Raffled off one.)

Debbani

These are based on the Debbani Herd, but dont necessarily have to be Debbani or even Badieh Badawie, though I WOULD prefer it if you wished to be a member. First person to quote the Plushie gets the Plushie.



ALL CLAIMED

Rasheeka

This Rasheeka is to be raffled off to the first 5 people to quote him/her. WON BY ALEXIASILVER

The following Rasheeka are Twin Brother and Sister, though you get to choose which one is male and which one is Female. I'll raffle to the first 10 people to post for them, However you must apply for yourself AND a Friend.

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