Customs and un-written rules

I was wondering if there are any of these in Azeroth? Rules and customs that everyone follow without questioning them as that is just the way it is? Examples:

- Hospitality rules, like when you are at someone's home and eat of their bread and salt they may not harm you as you are then concidered a guest.

- Wedding customs like the bride wearing something blue, borrowed, old and new.

- Burial customs, would trolls for example eat a little bit of the dead so he or she can become part of them and live on forever?

I think customs are really down to the roleplayers involved in each situation. For example at Om's wedding, that wedding custom didn't happen as far as I was aware.

I wouldn't say any RL customs exist specifically in Azeroth, but I definitely don't see any harm in people using them if they wish to do so.

I do think customs would be fleshed out or created by the player. There is little around regarding customs or ideals like these. Things like these, small things, would make the world a bit more alive - because they're personal, to a region, or group or even individual.

As for the rules of hospitality, I think something like that, the bread and salt (so long as you're not of House Frey) would be a good, generic "rule". Something similar to those rules appears in many (if not "most") older cultures etc.

Burial, however, is probably discussed in lore to some extent, I think. Cremation would seemingly be a common practice in some areas, whilst in others mummification is the norm. Humans tend to make shrines and bury they're dead (though with the "threat" of Scourge perhaps burning, and burying ashes would be safer). Trolls, eating trollflesh?! We're FAR to civilised for that... erm. Honest.

Arathorian customs are far more 'barbaric' than Stormwinders and have their own hospitality, wedding, funeral and even blood brother rituals.

Someone once told me that dwarves have a custom in letting the bartender pick the first drink of the evening.

Gogol wrote:Someone once told me that dwarves have a custom in letting the bartender pick the first drink of the evening.

Wasnt the Custom beeing that the bartender picks the first drink and the guest has to guess what he is given or else he would insult his host?

Probally.

That's a pretty interesting custom, the one with the drinks there.

I find things like this very entertaining and would love it if Azeroth ahd any clearly defined ones. The one with the trolls eating their dead relatives I made up myself but find it particularly beautiful and not at all very uncivilized or brutal.

This is something I'd be interested to have a look at for the culture seat in the Council, at least for the human cultures part

The troll custom, with eating the flesh is partly correct, if I'm not mistaken, only that it is the heart that is to be eaten, to consume the essence and strength of the fallen one. They tend to do the same to their enemies as far as I know. It's a ritualistic tihng where you devour the spirit of your enemy then. I suppose the same thing goes for any fallen beloved?

Nar'Gaya/Felitzia/Eszra wrote:I suppose the same thing goes for any fallen beloved?

When Nailizzia fell Shro'gan ate her heart.

How romantic.


xD

I know the burial customs of Orcs and Tauren at least.

Orcs prop their dead up on a small rack with some belongings and torch them good.

Taurens do something similar except they don't burn their dead, but rather seem to mummify them somehow. I'm not sure if this is a recent custom though since it seems very impractical for a nomadic race.

Subsequently, Orc burial sites and graveyards are often a collection of burned stakes with no real significance to an unlooker unfamiliar with it, growing over time as old burial stakes don't seem to be torn down. A Tauren burial site however is a macabre sight, sometimes disturbing, with dozens of tauren mummies baking in the sun.

Saihna/Julia wrote:How romantic.


xD

I guess he really had his heart..

*puts on sunglasses*

in his mouth..

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!