The tombdog remnant isn't culturally or ethnically homogenous. Let's go over them! We'll look at what's stereotypical--the first image that should come to your mind when imagining a region of the tombdog remnant!

1: Northern dogs from and near the coast. Their coats are usually brighter oranges with brown markings, and are more likely to have full-face style patterns.

They're represented by a House Geofahn dog, which is the house that's really set the standard on style. He's in casual dress, which isn't terribly casual. Northern/Coastal dress is elaborate and expensive, with long skirts and lots of patterns. Thick, fluffy collars and detailed shoulders are in style these days. He has a dangle of bronze jewelry with a reliquary hanging from it like another bauble. His skirt has flexible metal rods inside it so the lower half keeps its shape. Looking sharp, of-Geofahn!

Although the coastal culture is cosmopolitan and has become somewhat "infected" by the other remnants' cultures--the prayerman binary gender roles have worn away at the tombdog's traditional gender-blindness; lifelizard philosophies have become popular in some tombdog pubs and clubs; birddemon-styled clubs and bars dot the landscape--the coastal tombdog is still very much "generic" tombdog. Towns, families, and houses, crypts and gambling clubs, when other remnants think "tombdog" this is what they think of!

2: Southern dogs from the swampy/marshy/river-filled south half of the upper remnant. Their coats are darker brown-greys with pepper-grey markings. They're more likely to have eye-glasses and angrybrow markings.

They're represented by a House Fauhredn dog, natch. Even a dog of Fauhredn doesn't overdress. Cut-outs in the mantle are popular, though. Tightly-collared necks are popular, too! She has a rain-hat on her back, which is stereotypically more of a southern thing. Her skirt is high because the south is full of marshes and wetlands. Her reliquaries are all close to her body, ideally hidden from view. They're sacred things, not fashion displays! The southern style isn't as elaborate or fancy, but it's got a conservative charm! Let your house colors speak for themselves, girl!

The southern lands are more traditionalist and closer to how the remnant was before it was just a remnant. The genders are treated identically, with the ideal for man and woman being largely the same. Sexuality and nudity is under strict taboo, much more so than in the north, and the talk around the gambling table is probably a bit more restrained, but other than that, this is as tombdog as tombdog can be. When other remnants think "tombdog," they probably won't be able to tell the difference between north and south!

3: Southdogs from the mountains and grasslands and plains, below even Fauhredn lands. Typically shorter, with tall, swept ears and shorter muzzles. Their coats are usually sandy colors, with light gray markings. They all have eyeglasses-style markings and almost never full-face style.

This dog has a turban-hat, which most southdogs usually wear. Her lineage is detailed in her tribe-scarf, with each patch representing a generation. On meeting new dogs, the scarves are ritually spread out in front of their owners, so everyone can see who's related where. She has her reliquaries dangling from the end of her tribe-scarf like all good southdogs should. Southdogs aren't as hung-up as the northern half of the remnant is on nudity, so you'll see naked bellies and legs sometimes, especially on brutally hot days. They still generally wear mantles always, though. You'll still basically never see a bare shoulder or genital, but if you do, it isn't the generation-shaming scandal it would be in the north. It's also rude to stare at exposed fur. Don't do it!

While the Geofahn and Fauhredn dogs have ethnic and cultural differences, they're still honestly part of the same overall culture. The southdog here isn't! A coastal dog would find himself only slightly uncomfortable in southern lands--but being in the southdog plains would just be unsettling. Usually organized into semi-nomadic tribes centered around mobile crypt-sleds, southdog traditions and customs deviate pretty strongly from north of the mountains. Their language is strongly dialectical, but understandable. Their coastal cities send decent trade up to the rest of the remnant and out to the birddemon remnant, and their caravans cross the mountains to trade to southern dogs each season.

4: Desertdogs from the southern deserts and badlands. Their ears are sharply pointed and their muzzles are severe. Their coats are typically a bright sandy color and their markings are dark black. They have a full gamut of markings.

This desertdog is wearing the "stereotypical" outfit. The iconic tall hood has its eye-pieces missing, and he's holding his face-mask in his hand. While even most tombdogs assume they wear those hoods all the time they really don't. His mantle custom would confuse a coastal tombdog, but it only represents a single family, unlike the connotations the dual colors would have over the mountains. In desertdogs, the dominant color is on the right, submissive on the left, with a personal color unique to the dog or the dog's family line complimenting them. He wears his relics on his leg-apron, although he probably has even more inside his clothes. In the cities desertdogs dress down, taking their hoods off and wearing shorter skirts and no sleeves.

Desertdogs are another sharp deviation from the rest of the remnant's culture, being even more divergent than the southdogs. They're highly nomadic with the only cities spread out along the southern coast. Every desertdog has the majority of their corpse placed in the great communal crypt which holds the bones of every desertdog that ever died--but this isn't representative of any sense of universal solidarity more than it is an issue of safety. It's easy for dogs to get lost in the desert, and to lose their reliquaries along with them. While the desertdogs have many coastal cities, they rarely trade off-remnant themselves. Their boats skirt up the coast and trade with the southdogs and southern and northen dogs, and occasionally make the trip to the lifelizard remnant. Birddemons, however, send lots of ships their way each year. Their language is similar to the language spoken over the mountains, but is incomprehensible without study.

5: Islanddogs from the lonely jungle island. Very short, with swept, pointed muzzles. Their fur is a green-gray with black markings that are usually a defined mask.

This islanddog is wearing relics of his ancestors openly on his body, and is sporting a simple mantle made from tanned hide and matching shorts.

Islanddogs are a mystery. Physically they're too deviated from any of the tombdogs of the remnant to suggest a recent ancestry, and culturally they're completely inaccessible. They keep to themselves entirely and have no interest of interacting with anyone not from their home island. Their island is a tight jungle woven with ancestral shrines and mummified dogs. While they're technologically far behind the rest of the remnant, scholarly missions have said they're as smart as any other dog, and their culture has all the complexities it should. Most tombdogs think that when the remnant was rescued from destruction, this island escaped independently, and was originally from the other side of the world that the tombdog continent came from. They seem to be happy to be left alone, and the rest of the remnant is happy to leave them alone. They are only occasionally raided by birddemon pirates looking for slaves. Because of the density of their ancestor ghosts, these raids don't ever go super great for the birddemons.


And now you know all the kinds of tombdogs that there are in the remnant! Wow!