Tahanati (culture)
Nestled against the Kharadan Mountains, the Tahanati are a people as hard and unyielding as their homeland. Clinging to traditions abandoned centuries ago by their neighbors, the Tahanati care not for passing fashions or new innovations. Their hills have defended them throughout their long and proud history, and they have never put stock in the word of any advisor who has not lived into their seventh decade.
As a result, the lands have of the Tahanati have never grown greatly outside of their native hills and mountains. Their stubborn pride is often dismissed as arrogance, and their ancient traditions, such as drenching newborn babies in spiced water to root out evil spirits, are derided as archaic. Despite their hardships, both within and without, the ancient wisdom of the Tahanati has yet to be abandoned.