Corvidaeni

{Work In Progress}

The Corvidaeni (Corvidaenius Populus) are a race of humanoid avians that once lived in far distant lands from Rathnir, before an unknown phenomenon caused them to rapidly decline and fade into the dusts of history, their name now barely known and those that survived this decline broken, or sworn to return the species' glory.

Before the Great Decline, they had a reasonable presence in Cymru to scout the lands, but by the time the Great Decline began the Corvidaeni population began to decline at a pace that would continue to grow until the species was nothing but small pockets. It is said that many of the surviving Corvidaeni have taken looks of Plague Doctors to blend in with their surroundings as best as possible.

What little history about the Corvidaeni is left is unclear, and even tricky, due to the extremely scarce historical texts, locations, and even stories from the surviving people. However, this text will use what little evidence there is to document them and their culture.

Practices and Traditions
Based on several instances found in abandoned structures, the arts and culture of the Corvidaeni was that of heavy religious influence, a strong respect for knowledge and the strange obsession of the sky? A large corvid is depicted in most paintings that have the possible King. Most likely a symbolism, and connected to their religion.

Art
A handful of pieces of art have been recovered some depicting their supposed God "Sol Corvus" whatever that means, however few pieces of art depict glorious battles and even depictions of the possible king. But given the art is so few it can be assumed only higher classes had this opportunity, the art is rather renaissance, and few instances of abstract art has been recovered.

Statues and Carvings
Several statues have also been discovered, but they're more or less the same thing, just the big bird and the supposed king, although the statues appear to be made from a strong stone.

Ownership of items
A handful of scriptures have suggested a system of item owning where a date would be arranged for ownership and would be rightfully returned by that date, some scrolls even suggest a small tax on this system which most likely was emplaced by the Corvidaeni king.

Wedding, Marriage and Harems
After recovering what appears to be a diary, we can assume that the Corvidaeni's way of two houses, or "Nidos" was similar to most marriages, where the old family name could be replaced with the family name of the groom, based on the nearly burnt diary we could only make out that these marriages were grander than most...

There is some scriptures which points to honour being a strong trait in the culture, but not as strong as other, and evidently, paintings and sculptures appear to depict the supposed leader with several people, possibly a harem which means harems were accepted within Corvidaeni culture. Finally, a painting seems to depict same sex marriage in a somewhat positive manner, assuming that same-sex marriage was never a bother for the Corvidaeni.

Gender and Sex
With a lack of evidence, its hard to say for certain, but texts have mentioned the two biological genders, "Corvus masculinus" and "Corvus Feminae" but vaguely includes "Corvus Femina masculus" and "Corvus Masculus Feminae", we've yet to figure out what these actually mean.