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And here's various tribal ceremonial gear, some more practical than others, one per each biome and also cave as represented by mostly non-tribals.
Jungle neumono typically died the fastest from any biome, so one of the more common outfit themes was for neumono to gather various souvenirs from near deaths, or from neumono who died that helped them live on. The more the neumono had close calls that yielded an item that could be worn (such as teeth or leather from a certain creature, and the longer they lived, the more layered (and convoluted) their outfits would become. Since their outfits tended to be more of a collection of stories and anecdotes than actual clothing, jungle neumono were sometimes thought to have the worst sense of fashion.
Snow neumono ceremonial gear is often a display of strength and prosperity, which translates to using rare materials that stand out. It's meant to say that not just are they strong enough to not even bother hiding from other neumono and animals, but that they do well enough to find luxurious raw materials. Or sometimes just well crafted clothing and accessories that were taken from a hive before that. Hence, non hunting clothing is often gaudy.
Cerulean neumono were often isolated, and didn't feel much of a need to impress themselves or other hives. Most specialty clothing, then, was made for highly specific celebrations and events. The common theme was to represent their own island or set of islands, since cerulean neumono were more dependent on a specific tract of land moreso than the other biomes, which usually had more room to move within the biome itself. As a result, many neumono on islands wore outfits representing the island as a whole, usually in the form of wearing a little bit of everything the island had in wildlife and foliage.
Redgrass had a lot of overlap with snow neumono in terms of themes to look tough by, but while snow neumono were often more about saying 'don't bother attacking me unless you want to die', Redgrass was more aggressive with a mentality of 'stay out of my way or get attacked.' Leather is common in redgrass areas, but the more gaudy outfits would also include articles from slain monsters. The largest teeth would be kept, and some skulls could be worn, ultimately leading to the neumono wearing their hunting trophies. Whatever was seen to be more threatening was added, such as plain blood based warpaint or emphasized weaponry, leading to the redgrass tribal being the poster child for neumono heavy metal cover art.
Cave neumono (represented by Korli) would not have had had many tendencies/common themes like many of the other biomes might, although many of the raw materials available did overlap. Since there weren't true cave neumono (or at least no known presently live ones), cave neumono were other neumono of any other biome that were displaced, and found their current home so uninhabitable and dangerous that they had to live in caves, so their themes were typically branched off from their natural biome celebrations and rituals using raw materials from caverns, the most notable was a surplus of silk (while other biomes frequently had some silk equivalent as well, it was only frequently seen within caves.) Hence, many of those clothes turned out to be the most comfortable of any other biome, and by some means or another, were favored to have bioluminescence.
Posted on 2019-12-08 16:39:18 by Whistler
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And here's various tribal ceremonial gear, some more practical than others, one per each biome and also cave as represented by mostly non-tribals.
Jungle neumono typically died the fastest from any biome, so one of the more common outfit themes was for neumono to gather various souvenirs from near deaths, or from neumono who died that helped them live on. The more the neumono had close calls that yielded an item that could be worn (such as teeth or leather from a certain creature, and the longer they lived, the more layered (and convoluted) their outfits would become. Since their outfits tended to be more of a collection of stories and anecdotes than actual clothing, jungle neumono were sometimes thought to have the worst sense of fashion.
Snow neumono ceremonial gear is often a display of strength and prosperity, which translates to using rare materials that stand out. It's meant to say that not just are they strong enough to not even bother hiding from other neumono and animals, but that they do well enough to find luxurious raw materials. Or sometimes just well crafted clothing and accessories that were taken from a hive before that. Hence, non hunting clothing is often gaudy.
Cerulean neumono were often isolated, and didn't feel much of a need to impress themselves or other hives. Most specialty clothing, then, was made for highly specific celebrations and events. The common theme was to represent their own island or set of islands, since cerulean neumono were more dependent on a specific tract of land moreso than the other biomes, which usually had more room to move within the biome itself. As a result, many neumono on islands wore outfits representing the island as a whole, usually in the form of wearing a little bit of everything the island had in wildlife and foliage.
Redgrass had a lot of overlap with snow neumono in terms of themes to look tough by, but while snow neumono were often more about saying 'don't bother attacking me unless you want to die', Redgrass was more aggressive with a mentality of 'stay out of my way or get attacked.' Leather is common in redgrass areas, but the more gaudy outfits would also include articles from slain monsters. The largest teeth would be kept, and some skulls could be worn, ultimately leading to the neumono wearing their hunting trophies. Whatever was seen to be more threatening was added, such as plain blood based warpaint or emphasized weaponry, leading to the redgrass tribal being the poster child for neumono heavy metal cover art.
Cave neumono (represented by Korli) would not have had had many tendencies/common themes like many of the other biomes might, although many of the raw materials available did overlap. Since there weren't true cave neumono (or at least no known presently live ones), cave neumono were other neumono of any other biome that were displaced, and found their current home so uninhabitable and dangerous that they had to live in caves, so their themes were typically branched off from their natural biome celebrations and rituals using raw materials from caverns, the most notable was a surplus of silk (while other biomes frequently had some silk equivalent as well, it was only frequently seen within caves.) Hence, many of those clothes turned out to be the most comfortable of any other biome, and by some means or another, were favored to have bioluminescence.
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