Urban Nevreans
A Nevreans who live in urban areas such as Gold Ring.
They have begun from refugees who took refuge toward Gold Ring from Nevrea region during the genocide and invasion in western lands by General Rain and her armies, approx the year 33 in Rain-Calendar.
Due to great differences in the social environment, their culture and behavior have become totally different from what Native Nevreans have.
Their integration with Gold Ring is more recent than Sergals and Agudners, therefore they are passed the unequal treatment and racial problems that include racial discrimination.
Main article for common features of all Nevreans
Racial treatment in Gold Ring
Possibly around RC50. There are two Nevreans jailed, one of which, a male, drooping himself towards the wall and giving off a suggestive vibe as to his overall demeanor of deep sadness and chagrin at his situation, in contrast, the female is sitting down underneath the latticed window, displaying little to no emotion at all.
Nevreans are not a native race to Gold Ring, their history as residents of Gold Ring is much newer when compared to that of Sergals and Agudners, native, founding races of the nation. Due to this, Nevreans were not having complete 'human rights' under the GR laws because the laws were considered and prepared only for the GR native races, Sergals and Agudners.
From the time in which Nevreans had immigrated into Gold Ring after the year 33 in Rain-Calendar, they had passed through a heavily difficult life, undergoing big racial discrimination from native residents within the nation all the way up until RC70. Racial treatment for Nevreans was very unfair, merciless and they had suffered downright direful things for a long time, to the point of downplaying their own life, even.
Actually, people in Gold Ring had already seen Nevreans prior to RC33, as Gold Ring held friendly relations with the Western region, Vetla, up until the beginning of the Great War with General Rain and the Shigu. The people of the Western Musical troupe were limited to only visiting Gold Ring once every two to three years, in order to provide a performance in the greatest festival in Gold Ring. A part of this history is expressed in the Vilous Manga, Episode 3, At the Festival.
However, during this time period, Nevreans were known throughout Gold Ring as simply "beautiful people whom visit the city during special events." In essence, it just meant that the people of Gold Ring knew little to nothing about Nevreans beyond what they could see and gander from their theatrics programs.
Due to Nevreans originating from the exclusionary and isolated homeland, they have their own culture and tradition which is by far, vastly different from that of Sergals and Agudners. After they had immigrated and begun to live out life within Gold Ring, a big problem had started to materialize between native residents within the city, due to the deep differences in the social and cultural environment.
This background story of the above artwork serves to explain the manner in which Nevreans had been treated during that time, and how Gold Ring's people viewed them. The people of Gold Ring had treated and judged all Nevreans in a stereotypical manner, alongside their own bad preconceptions and prejudice. At first glance, the two might look like a couple, but they are actually not.
Both of them had committed some sort of crime, independently of one another, and the people thought they must have been related to each other. Despite the fact that they actually have no type of personal relationship between themselves, people did not trust their excuse and jailed them together after having them judged as accomplices.
Alongside that, the above artwork even displays how gender differences reflect behavior in Nevreans. Males are more prone to show their emotions and feelings, they do not usually try to hide how they feel or think. In contrast to this, females will always present a neutral, impassive expression in order to hide what they feel or think in a taciturn manner.
These great contrasting differences in genders were very new to the people of Gold Ring. As a result, it had even reached the point where it increased the unfair treatment against Nevreans, as Gold Ring people had difficulty understanding these differences and were confused by them.
There were quite a lot of Nevreans who fell quickly into carrying out improper activities such as theft and fraud, due to a difficult life marred by poverty and unfair treatment. Because of this, there was unilateral suspicion and distrust built against Nevreans, such as the one presented in the artwork.
Nevreans had gained human rights lawfully in RC70, thus finally joining the ranks of Agudners and Sergals alike as the third race of Gold Ring. In addition, their progenies born within a new generation has grown up in Gold Ring and its environment from the beginning. They will still more or less keep to their own predisposition as a racial feature, but they are much more readily able to blend into the lifestyle among the native races of Gold Ring when compared to their parental predecessors and what they experienced.
Due to these reasons, and all the way up to the modern era's present day, mistrust and suspicion against Nevreans has been dwindling down steadily over time, as opposed to pre 70RC times when they had little to no rights.
Society
Most of the jobs in Gold Ring were considered for only the native races in Gold Ring, Sergals and Agudners. Because of this, there were very few options for Nevreans, which they can have priority. Nevreans who do not excel in their skills or beauty may have difficulty finding fulfilling work.
Females will most often find work as construction/scaffold workers, guards or crafters, and metalworkers. Males will typically find work that takes advantage of their appearances such as hospitality, childcare, merchants, and light manual labor. There is some demand for nevrean workers, but their earning opportunities are limited.
Many females who cannot find honest work will turn to banditry and those without a legitimate job are often treated as scoundrels. And as such, they can face prejudice and mistrust from the other Eltus races, Sergals and Agundners. They discredit the reputation of the nevrean race as a whole. These trends had led to one of the reasons for the big racial discrimination against all of the urban Nevreans in the Gold Ring after world war.
Many traditions of the natives or Nevrea have been lost over the generations that have settled in Gold Ring, and customs such as the wing cutting ceremony have been lost.
Urban Males
Since they had come over to the nation, they were treated well soon due to their nature that is cute, beautiful, and amiable to everyone. They were easy to get the service industry because they are amiable and beautiful. And some males made use of makeup and showy behavior in order to stand out, especially merchants or those in the hospitality or sex trade. The most of Nevrean sex workers are composed of males, and most often sought by male Sergals.
Males that have turned to prostitution to make ends meet were selling their bodies to others regardless of race or gender and devaluing their own beauty in the process, due to this, they can be said to be a shame to the Nevrean race. Because originally their sexual intercourse is strictly carried out for the only serious reproductive purpose, and every behavior and expression from romance related to males beauty had been kept as clean and platonic manner due to their traditional cultural sense. However, many urban Nevreans became no longer follow those of their traditional rules due to the environment and social differences. Those prostitute males lost their original poetic sense that had been filled with various spiritual and platonic ways, and instead of it, almost all of them began to product the erotic songs that praise a lewd behavior in a similar style for satisfying their customer Gold Ring residents. As result, these changes gave more bad influence to their females' mental state because females had valued their original sense and style, and were hard to accept those new style songs. Those situations and trends will change after the found of Sabi no Wa. (Described later)
If they do work not to depend on their appearance, they are good at designer, artist, and advertising business with their superior aesthetic sense and communicative competence.
Urban Females
They are passed a very bitter life with many discrimination and prejudice, unlike males.
There is the biased view "female nevreans are merciless, cruel, weird, and doubtful" as common knowledge among urban sergals and agudners. But it is really discriminatory prejudice. Many urban sergals and agudners distrust every female nevrean due to their scary appearance, unamiable behavior, taciturn nature, and poker face. They never know female nevreans' "true nature" until the present day. Therefore many female nevreans can't get or lost their jobs, so such females go to evil way like Out Ring. The strong prejudice - "Female nevreans are scoundrel" is established among sergals and agudners.
Male nevreans may be known to leave their partners to pursue work in the sex industry. This can be especially devastating to their partners who may turn to brutality out of grief over their failure to protect their partner. These dispossessed females may turn to a life of part-time employment and petty crime.
Unlike males, female sex workers being rarer due to their rugged appearance and potentially dangerous talons. Females may buy the services of male prostitutes on the side.
Normally, they are good at bank clerks, guards, and lawyers with their secretiveness nature. But as their trust is low and because they lack amiable, it is hard to get important jobs.
In the city, the culture to make a pen with the own feather which a females cut off by coming-of-age ceremony will be popular. In Nevrea region, the culture to make an arrow with the own feather which a females cut off by coming-of-age ceremony exist. In short, the arrow becomes the pen in the city. There is a very big pen made with her flight feather in a house of female Nevrean in the city. They continue keeping it carefully all the time. Urban female nevreans will make sergals and agudners and relations of the affinity in this way.
"Sabi no Wa"
"Sabi no Wa(錆の輪, The Ring of The Rust)" is the progressive group for all urban nevreans of a new generation, to build the new nevrean culture.
As generations have passed among Urban nevreans, some traditional gender differences have been eroded as parental role models have disappeared. Recent generations of Urban nevreans have begun to rebel and build a new culture aimed at unifying and bridging the gap between genders.
They have begun to develop and incorporate electronic music into their musical culture. Female youths may dye their feathers and males may carry weapons. While there has not been a complete gender role reversal, the disparity is beginning to fade. Females have been involved in the development of flight and communication technology, and males have taken more responsibility for their own protection by developing weapons such as lightweight weapons that suit their anatomy.
Examples of their policy; As for females, they think it is not fair that females lose sky, colors, and freedom.
As for males, they think it is not fair that males are fragile, no powers, and should be beautiful.
Music
At first, the electronic music that reproduced Native Nevreans' traditional music with an electronic musical instrument was main. But there is no so good electronic musical instrument at that time. In addition, they did not know how to write lyrics because there is not a culture that writes sentences in Nevrea land.
But when a sentence and a typewriter spread among urban Nevreans, their style suddenly changes. The techniques such as print or the advertisement are related to this, too.
As a result, urban Nevrean music has lyrics and musical score, unlike Natives' music. And electronic music is those mainstream.
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