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The King Of Dragon Pass game offers many insights into 'everyday' Sartarite life, behaviours, feelings, etc.

Their initiation into adulthood is a big deal - as well as a big feast and new status, I believe they'll get clan tattoos, the benefits of clan Rune magic, the clan wyter, and possible lay membership of another cult. If you want to give them a bit of loot, but in a culturally rooted way, then perhaps at the feast they're also gifted a weapon or piece of armour (or item suited to their parental occupation, with potential fun use in adventure) by their family or the clan chief. Or they get their heirloom (if you've not given it during charcter creation). Using their parental occupation

I really like the majority of them, and my only dislike is Zorak Zoran - but I'd guess the sculpt's emphasising some fight-beyond-death gift he possesses in-game. Lankhor Mhy has grown on me - hints of overlap with Zzabur (multiple eyes, pointy hat), harp noting his role as "History Singer", little claws for scratching knowledge down as leader of the Marks on Bark Clan. Babeester Gor is dynamic, but I wish she had a little hint of having just leapt from her dead mother's womb, trailing gore or something. I'm post-rationalising Chalana Arroy's halo as a rotated Light rune and win