Any tidbits or crumbs about Xi'an life, social structure, kinship structure, rites of passage, taboos, power structure, the makeup of the elites, etc.? It seems like the Xi'an are coming into focus now in your minds, and just hearing you talk about how the Xi'an might or might not behave and operate would help share that vision with the majority of us in the community, who really do care about the imaginative effort and value it as much as the engineering effort.asked by Doc
TL;DRXi'an may have evolved as carrion eaters with heavily spiced, texture-based food, and their culture is starting to come into focus through internal documents, though nothing is approved yet.
Something really fun that will probably not have much game impact, which is why I'm choosing this as my tidbit, is that we've been talking about the possibility that they evolved as carrion eaters, that they eat rotting plants and animals as the preferred food choice. And part of that is that their spicing is very heavy to make up for the fact that their taste buds are less sensitive than ours. As well as that, their spicing tends more to be texture-based, so a lot of prickling or numbing sensations in their spices. So if you go eat at a Xi'an restaurant, you might get a well-fermented, wilted plant seasoned with a prickly, numbing heat. So there you go, Xi'an tidbit.
This last Jump Point with the focus on Aopoa and Kaiifa was a lot of fun, to dip into the Xi'an and start to talk about them internally. There are a few unapproved docs that we have floating around that have started to sketch out ideas and visions for their culture and so forth. And it was a lot of fun to spend some time talking about that and starting to develop that. So they're definitely coming into focus, and it'll be fun to reveal more of those attributes as we go along.
They're pretty into flowers.