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was made for me by the wonderful colormeviolet: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/colormeviolet/\n\n\n[b]The Amazones[/b]\n\nEquus Quagga Sapiens = Plains Zebra ; “Legionaires”\nEquus Zebra Sapiens = Mountain Zebra ; “Water Workers”\n\nFor the text specific to the male zebras, the stallions, scroll down to the section \"Stallions\"\n\n[b]Appearance[/b]\n\nThe zebras, more commonly called the amazones by the human children, are on average about 1.80m (6ft) to 2.40m (8ft) tall. They are highly humanoid, their tighs, just to name an example, with the same round cross-section as humans tighs, rather than, like with the fennekim, highly elliptical cross-sections resembling their feral ancestors. And they have tails - just like their feral ancestors.\n\nTheir fingers end in horned caps, why they need tools for the manipulation of small objects fennekims and humans can handle easily directly. Their eyes are located forward, unlike at the sides of their heads as for their feral ancestors. However, they are not as axis-parallel as humans eyes are, resulting in a blind spot right between the rear rim of their nose to their forehead. Their ears are highly mobile and allow them to pinpoint sounds with high accuracy.\n\nTogether with their head, their feet are the other big deviation from the human reference frame: The zebras walk on their toe, like horses and earth-zebras do. Their hooves are slightly larger than those of horses of the same weight, as there is only two to carry their weight, not four. Above their hooves is an area with very long hair growth, like seen on 'cold blood' horses, Hafflingers, or other of the heavy draft horse breeds on earth. Otherwise, their fur is rather short, as is often seen on species adapted to hot climates.\n\nThere are two major breeds amongst the zebras. The zebras themselves call the smaller breed the “water workers”. The water workers average 1.80m to 2m (6 to barely 7ft) height, whilst the other breed, which the zebras themselves consider to be the default, is usually between 2.10m and 2.40m (7 to 8ft) in height.\n\nThere is a high imbalance in the male to female ratio. Under the best of circumstances, there is one male for every ten females. More common - and thus the scenario that imprinted the zebras society - is a ratio of one male per 100 females. The zebras use of the decadic, or base-10, counting system is equally derived from them having ten fingers - like humans - but also from their conviction that the 1:10 ratio is preferential.\n\nWhilst the females are of graceful build, they are also muscular, in the lean and wiry way usually. No she-hulks there. The males have slightly wider chests and are also very tall, sometimes even half a head taller than the females. But not training with the same intensity as the females, they are usually rather more lithe in appearance than the females. Their legs and arms and waist are more slender than those of the females, their shoulder and neck muscles, too. Where the males train as hard as the females, they grow visibly more bulk than them. Due to the way they grow up and live, they tend to prefer focusing on speed and precision.\n\nAll zebras grow manes from their foreheads crest down to, and sometimes below, the line of their shoulders. When short cropped, the mane stands like that of a feral zebra. However, most zebras let their manes grow long, combing, styling, braiding them into a rich variety of hairstyles.\n\n[b]Clothing[/b]\n\nThe amazones have a certain contempt for clothing. For one, most of the Allied Sultanates are located in the vast deserts. And whilst the amazones fur provides acceptable protection against the chill of night, working during the day is a sweat driving activity. And clothes, really any type of clothes that would not hinder at actual work, would increase the amount of sweating and discomfort. The exception are the amazones of the Sultanates in the central and western mountainranges. They wear utilitarian vests and either kneelong wrapskirts or fennekim-inspired pantalons.\n\nHowever, amazones are socially sensitive.\nSo when working closely with tigers newly arrived in their town, they tend to wearsimple long loincloths, light togas or fenwa-inspired saris, until the tigers have become accustomed to the amazones casual lack of clothing. A trend the amazones and fennekim developed independantly from each other, or perhaps kept from their creators the orange tigers, is the wearing of belts. Whilst the fennekim belts are works of art and very personal items, amazones belts are utilitarian and little beside.\n\nClothes are either ritual - like the garments the princess wears at public functions - or utilitarian. Like the various types of armor for town- and gate guards, or clothes like those of blacksmiths or quarry workers, which are mostly protective gloves and knee-protectors.\n\n[b]Language[/b]\n\nThe spoken language of the amazones is a dialect of the orange tigers ancient high language. Though over 20.000 years the spoken language deviated significantly from the origin. Still, influencing each other forth and back in many small ways, the languages of the amazones and the modern day tribes are still so close that general communication is possible. Topics on meat, greenery and technical matters might not be exactly prime examples, but directions, the weather and manual crafts existing on both cultures would be well communicatable.\n\nSpoken language tends to differ between each region to a degree, forming dialects in part due to the vocabulary of a desert sultanate won't have use for words related to snowfall, hail, blizzards and other cold weather phenomena, whilst the mountain sultanates will show a profound lack of words for things like fata morganas. Variations of pronounciations abound, but throughout all sultanates the written words and their types are unified. The amazones use the ancient orange tigers writing system which is a cuneiform system which they write using wooden sticks on clay, or inks / sepia on paper using metal quills with nibs. Amazones are perfectly capable to read 20.000 years old texts, just separate words will be strange or incomprehensible for them. Words like 'retroviral DNA transfer' or 'pressure pulsed fusion flow reactor' mean something important, that they gather from context, but they don't understand the concepts behind those words.\nAnd, too, the grammar of such texts will be archaic.\n\nThe amazones picked up a lot of words from the fennekims language. It covered aspects the amazones simply didn't knew or had forgotten about - and thus lacked or lost the words for. With the arrival of the human children, most amazonian specialists learn human script and the humans native language as to be able to work through the rich amount of data the humans microfiche library provides them with.\n\nChemistry, mining, metallurgy, optics, physics, … they see the potential in it all. Both in the civilian as well as the military aspects. Just as they see the danger that adult humans might pose that do not see other beings - like the amazones and the fennekim - as fellow sapients.\nAfter all, they know the tribes, who see everything not to their liking as food.\n\nAs a result, many of the new words and concepts slip smoothly from the human language into their own language.\n\n[b]Characteristics[/b]\n\nIn General: Female anthro zebra, 7 to 8 ft tall. Trained and educated as soldiers or military support, slender but muscular ( rather lean and high endurance than maximised power output ). Each soldier - rather legionaire - is a specialist in large scale combat ( siege engines, fortifications, logistics) as well as in personal combat with sword, crossbow and other weapons as available. Pragmatic, slower reflexes ( than humans ), very strong and very high endurance are their main characteristics. They are good natured and have a sense of humor ranging from harsh and below the beltline to cheerful and impish. They are very self-conscious and self-assured, very outspoken, hopefull and calmly optimistic - yet educated to plan with pessimistic assumptions. Murphys Law is what they expect from life, but it's not going to stop them. Silent and soft in their feelings, they admire art and the skill of the small people, the fennekim. All that passed through military training tend to be technical perfectionists with what humans would call an “Engineer Mindset”. Being on the menu for most living things in the deserts and steppes of their home continent, they have a strong group-orientation, placing the good for many quite regularly higher than their own wellbeing.\n\n[b]Architecture[/b]\n\nHumans would consider it something like roman construction with ancient egyptian designs. Amazones love bathing, and their towns have many fountains, bassins, and artifical lakes as well as public baths.\n\n[b]Musical Key[/b]\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1fVVQugiy0\n\nReference for speed perception: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIEnbqr3O34 at 80% speed.\n\n[b]Daily music[/b]\n\nThe females mainly do work-chants, improvising percussion instruments like drums, if at all. Otherwise it's small instruments like flutes/pipes, or claves they use. The focus is on easy portability and the ability to survive the hot desert climate with only minimal maintenance. The males in the high towers of the princess palaces are a totally different issue. They build large and sometimes complex musical instruments, and learn to play them, to use them for the waking call ( rather, waking music ) at dawn or for other occasions. Most towers posess acoustically amplifying elements, like resonance chambers between the floors, to make their music widely audible.\n\n[i]Examples:[/i]\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsUAblRn7U\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KCfma_yoY0\n\nAmazone work-detail chorus, addressed to the males in the princess palace tower.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8rsEodZ8tc\n\nWork-detail chorus; considering amazones do have deep voices, they're not far off.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP0NmJnsIjs\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWErSfJWzzo\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOrYsTvgtaI\n\nAn amazone century moving out to take down a cacti queen spider that threatens a caravan route.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evOcMKvv9aw\n\nA piece that would well mix the few fragments of the tigers ancient culture and their place in the amazones culture. A piece amazones would play for a tigress danceress.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqWcm6MMiHk\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjG0x9zjT_I\n\nWith what the males in the Princess Palace Tower call their towns garrision to rise at dawn.\n\n[b]Typical City Names ( human transscripts ):[/b]\n\nXochtli, Thebes, Tehuioy, Persepolis, Ur, Meroe, Waterdeep, Antep, Tenoch, Agra, Menos, Leta, Bassorah, Persepolis\n\n[b]Rolemodels[/b]\n\nKnight in shining armor ( Veni, Vidi, Vici + To serve and protect ), with longsword, oversized assault crossbow ( type: I punch holes in mudbrick walls );\n\nBloodsoaked dragonslayer ( methodical mayham “nothing shall bar my way to rescue my friend” ; );\n\nBejewelled graceful host in transparent silks ( “Oh, I heard that you humans can change your skincolor. These red cheeks really suit you well. And you don't need to look elsewhere. I heard about your human customs of always wearing clothes, so I put this silken toga on… Yes, it is transparent. Why is that relevant?” )\n\n[b]Female Names[/b]\n\nDefault: , daughter of of the of Example: Ina, daughter of Asha of the 3rd Water-Workers of Xochtli\n\nUpon being accepted as a soldier in a towns Legion: of the of Example: Ina of the 2nd Shields of Arcadia\n\nand upon receiving an award for excellency/bravery: of Example: Ina Iron-Reaper of Arcadia\n\nTypical names ( human transscripts ): Ina, Asha, Kara, Kira, Lina, Ana, Anka, Ike, Inwe, Chana, Alwa, Ani, Ewi, Chiwa, Newi, Pala\n\nTypical Century names ( human transscripts ): Water-Workers, Dam-Builders, Dragon-Tamers, Guards, Shields, Swords, Stone-Breakers, Mechanics, Reapers, Miners, Catapults\n\n[b]Archetypes[/b]\nCommon Amazones one might meet in a town\n\n[i]Civilian[/i]: Rule-of-thumb: All amazones are trained soldiers. Thus even a fragile danceress of their kind will have a certain amount of muscles, sufficient to make the average human feel safer having her on his side in a bar brawl. Amazones have no nudity taboo, instead, rather the opposite is true: Wearing clothing means you could hide offensive weapons, so for an amazone wearing nothing beyond a belt to hang a few pockets / pouches from for money and personal effects is totally normal. Though even then they'll wear a Dagger, and an amazone dagger has a blade of 40cm length, so resembles a human shortsword actually. These daggers are multi-tools, so they combine a saw/serrated blade and a thin spike on the blades tip, making them effective daily tools - and terrible weapons in a knife range fight. Most jobs ( blacksmith, carpenter, farmer, channel-digger, mason ) are done nude , or in only the protective gear ( blacksmith: Leather Apron; Mason: heavy gloves and ankle-guards ) suitable for the task. Work outside the citywalls is done in light leather armor, in which case every amazone carries her normal sword ( = human long/bastard sword ) on their back and a medium crossbow on her tigh. Beside jobs where physical strength is of advantage, amazones, especially older ones, often work as scribes or calculators. As a result, most businesses are run by fennekim, but the entire admin staff of them is usually disabled, old or physically unfit for the military amazones.\n\n[i]Danceress[/i]: Not as famous as the fenwas or tigresses, as they lack the fluent easiness of their predatory sisters, they draw just as much attention. Not only for that they are much more inviting and accepting of touches than almost anybody else… Whilst a human might slap somebody who gazes too openly, or slap somebody who gazes and touches, an amazone would most likely slap him who gazes but doesn't touch - “You're too timid? *slap* This way you'll never fetch a girl. Here *grab his hand and guide it where he looked* that is how it feels. You see? Next time don't stare.” *releases his hand* Their bodyshape is much more curvaceous - fenwa's can be mistaken for a male of their species easily when clothing accordingly - and more busty. Or they just know how to better accentuate it. Most danceresses don't do it for a life, but to relax, so many soldiers are danceresses, using their combat trained motions in their dances. Their dances are often retelling historic important fights, or their own recent fights. A “sword dance” is often an honored and celebrated way to do a public farewell to friends that died.\n\n[i]Musician / Singer[/i]: Amazones voices are deep and most of their songs are choirs sung together at dusk and dawn and ceremonies, or it are rythmic work songs to make hard labor more bearable. As musical instruments they love tubular bells, glockenspiele, hammered dulcimers and deep resounding flutes / pipes. As storytellers amazones .. .suck. They are trained from small onward to give precise reports, which ruins most of them for this job. Clothes are rather optional for them like for most other amazones inside towns. Those working closely with tigers and humans tend to wear light toga's …. until those others have acclimatizes to the city and then those “inhibiting, heat collecting carpets” are off again.\n\n[i]Soldier / Legionaire[/i]: Medieval knights armor. Blades on the lower arm guards to make even slapping an enemy a gesture capable of chopping limbs off, steel claws and serrated spikes and rims on the knees, boots, shoulderguards and back of the armor. Think of a “Warhammer Chaos” Armor. Just designed by women to be elegant AND deadly. Since the amazones joined up with the Fennekim the Sexyness of the armors was enhanced, showing cleavage, and accentuating the female forms male fennecs react the most to ( i.e. waistline, hips and cleavage / boobs ).\nThink what makes a human male drool, too, and you get what Amazones know to combine with armor making to make their soldiers companions fight like madmen to protect them. Large crossbows for ranged combat, with the quarrels stored in magazines on their right tigh and the right upper arm, an amazone longsword ( humans: Oversized 2-handed sword ) on their back and their standard issue dagger ( as mentioned above ). Most amazones leaving the safety of their towns walls gear up with full battle armor and equipment. A joke the human children develop as they grew older is that for the Amazones, “Clothes” is everything made of platemail. Everything else is either lingerie or handily carried polishing towels for their weapons.\n\n[i]City guards[/i]: City guards are those amazones who's fighting abilities are not yet considered sufficient for real fights, or no longer considered sufficient. They wear a “skirt” made from reptile leather-strips, and weighted at the ends, which can be pulled off and used both to bind an offenders legs and arms as well as be used as a bola to disable a fleeing person. Otherwise they wear only a long staff. They do wear a wide belt carrying a bladderwort and a pouch with food ( dates, grass, flowers ) and small personal effects. They are not given anything that would be overly lethal. City guards regularly take care of the large draft lizards ( 10m long Komodo Dragons ) the amazones use for draft animals of their caravans and for work-beasts inside the towns walls. They also are to intervene in quarrels and to resolve them peacefully.\n\n[i]Stallion / Male Zebra[/i]: One can meet those usually only through an appointment given by the princess of the town. Such occasions are usually asking services beyond what the small people or the available female amazone specialists can offer. This will typically be the services of a historian, designer or teacher.\n\n\n[b]Stallions[/b]\n\nSo far, basically all written covers the female zebras, the literal amazones. The males of the Amazones are hardly ever seen. But heard each morning and evening at dawn and dusk as they call the town to rise or to go to sleep. There are on average 100 females for one male, making it completely ridiculous to the amazones to contemplate letting males do any type of work where there is any kind of risk involved. As a result, the culture of the Amazones tends to shelter the stallions so much that nowadays it's considered totally normal to have the few males of a town reside in the central keep of a towns palace. Like a gender-reversed harem, but that the males are there for all the amazones.\n\nAs a side effect of those limited living quarters, few towns can manage more than a handful of stallions. In ages past this lead to problematic actions about which the amazones are still today pained to think. And whilst they do not make a secret of what happened in the past, it's a sure partykiller to mention it anywhere.\nNowadays 'excess' males grow up in their city and either they or their father leaves the town when the young stallion reaches adulthood. In former times alone, as a proof of their strength and cunning, nowadays with the same honor guard of a fennekim as protector as every amazone, they leave their town and move through the desert to either another town or to a fennekim sietch. With most fennekim sietches nowadays posessing a gudigwadi - a 'bunker' for passing carawans to rest a few days - and at least a small set of rooms and corridors made suitable for the tall zebras of both genders, these solitary males are most welcome by the fennekims to teach them about the crafts and skills of the amazones as well as to serve as social contact and liasion for the amazone caravan guards.\nAnd quite regularly, these males will find a lifetime task of bookkeeping waiting for them.\n\nThe stallions are 6 to 8 ft tall. Usually they are specialized in the arts and 'specialized' crafts, such as:\n\nmathematics,\nengineering designs,\nscribes,\narchitects,\nartisans and\npoetry and music.\n\nThey tend to have a delicate appearance, compared to the females. Yet they are strong and have good endurance compared to a human. The nature of the males to be of more muscular than the females of the species results in the males being roughly the equals of the well trained females. Their physical training is usually checked on by the stratega of a town, who is usually so old that she is no longer in heat and also physically still more than fit enough to beat even a strong stallion into submission - should one of them have a stupid idea.\n\nThe males excel however as astronomers, wise men, as confessors and advisors. They educate the amazons children ( filly ; squire ) before they become of age, after which contact is restricted. Like the females they are group-oriented, but they are stronger individualists ( “my skills for the good of all” ), each investing a lot of time into what interests him personally. Yet they, too, are members of the town, and so do and learn their alloted share to fulfill the tasks society expects them to.\n\nFive to ten stallions per 1000 Amazones is a not so uncommon ratio, so “father of a company” might well be a true term for most stallions.\n\n\n[b]Male Names[/b]\n\nDefault: of \n\nExample: Asa of Xochtli\n\nTypical names ( human transscripts ): Asa, Apep, Aki, Efu, Enki, Bika, Hare, Naton, Ondo, Sase\n\n[url=http://www.postybirb.com]Posted using PostyBirb[/url]", "description_bbcode_parsed": "This picture was made for me by the wonderful colormeviolet:  http://www.furaffinity.net/user/colormeviolet/


The Amazones

Equus Quagga Sapiens = Plains Zebra ; “Legionaires”
Equus Zebra Sapiens = Mountain Zebra ; “Water Workers”

For the text specific to the male zebras, the stallions, scroll down to the section "Stallions"

Appearance

The zebras, more commonly called the amazones by the human children, are on average about 1.80m (6ft) to 2.40m (8ft) tall. They are highly humanoid, their tighs, just to name an example, with the same round cross-section as humans tighs, rather than, like with the fennekim, highly elliptical cross-sections resembling their feral ancestors. And they have tails - just like their feral ancestors.

Their fingers end in horned caps, why they need tools for the manipulation of small objects fennekims and humans can handle easily directly. Their eyes are located forward, unlike at the sides of their heads as for their feral ancestors. However, they are not as axis-parallel as humans eyes are, resulting in a blind spot right between the rear rim of their nose to their forehead. Their ears are highly mobile and allow them to pinpoint sounds with high accuracy.

Together with their head, their feet are the other big deviation from the human reference frame: The zebras walk on their toe, like horses and earth-zebras do. Their hooves are slightly larger than those of horses of the same weight, as there is only two to carry their weight, not four. Above their hooves is an area with very long hair growth, like seen on 'cold blood' horses, Hafflingers, or other of the heavy draft horse breeds on earth. Otherwise, their fur is rather short, as is often seen on species adapted to hot climates.

There are two major breeds amongst the zebras. The zebras themselves call the smaller breed the “water workers”. The water workers average 1.80m to 2m (6 to barely 7ft) height, whilst the other breed, which the zebras themselves consider to be the default, is usually between 2.10m and 2.40m (7 to 8ft) in height.

There is a high imbalance in the male to female ratio. Under the best of circumstances, there is one male for every ten females. More common - and thus the scenario that imprinted the zebras society - is a ratio of one male per 100 females. The zebras use of the decadic, or base-10, counting system is equally derived from them having ten fingers - like humans - but also from their conviction that the 1:10 ratio is preferential.

Whilst the females are of graceful build, they are also muscular, in the lean and wiry way usually. No she-hulks there. The males have slightly wider chests and are also very tall, sometimes even half a head taller than the females. But not training with the same intensity as the females, they are usually rather more lithe in appearance than the females. Their legs and arms and waist are more slender than those of the females, their shoulder and neck muscles, too. Where the males train as hard as the females, they grow visibly more bulk than them. Due to the way they grow up and live, they tend to prefer focusing on speed and precision.

All zebras grow manes from their foreheads crest down to, and sometimes below, the line of their shoulders. When short cropped, the mane stands like that of a feral zebra. However, most zebras let their manes grow long, combing, styling, braiding them into a rich variety of hairstyles.

Clothing

The amazones have a certain contempt for clothing. For one, most of the Allied Sultanates are located in the vast deserts. And whilst the amazones fur provides acceptable protection against the chill of night, working during the day is a sweat driving activity. And clothes, really any type of clothes that would not hinder at actual work, would increase the amount of sweating and discomfort. The exception are the amazones of the Sultanates in the central and western mountainranges. They wear utilitarian vests and either kneelong wrapskirts or fennekim-inspired pantalons.

However, amazones are socially sensitive.
So when working closely with tigers newly arrived in their town, they tend to wearsimple long loincloths, light togas or fenwa-inspired saris, until the tigers have become accustomed to the amazones casual lack of clothing. A trend the amazones and fennekim developed independantly from each other, or perhaps kept from their creators the orange tigers, is the wearing of belts. Whilst the fennekim belts are works of art and very personal items, amazones belts are utilitarian and little beside.

Clothes are either ritual - like the garments the princess wears at public functions - or utilitarian. Like the various types of armor for town- and gate guards, or clothes like those of blacksmiths or quarry workers, which are mostly protective gloves and knee-protectors.

Language

The spoken language of the amazones is a dialect of the orange tigers ancient high language. Though over 20.000 years the spoken language deviated significantly from the origin. Still, influencing each other forth and back in many small ways, the languages of the amazones and the modern day tribes are still so close that general communication is possible. Topics on meat, greenery and technical matters might not be exactly prime examples, but directions, the weather and manual crafts existing on both cultures would be well communicatable.

Spoken language tends to differ between each region to a degree, forming dialects in part due to the vocabulary of a desert sultanate won't have use for words related to snowfall, hail, blizzards and other cold weather phenomena, whilst the mountain sultanates will show a profound lack of words for things like fata morganas. Variations of pronounciations abound, but throughout all sultanates the written words and their types are unified. The amazones use the ancient orange tigers writing system which is a cuneiform system which they write using wooden sticks on clay, or inks / sepia on paper using metal quills with nibs. Amazones are perfectly capable to read 20.000 years old texts, just separate words will be strange or incomprehensible for them. Words like 'retroviral DNA transfer' or 'pressure pulsed fusion flow reactor' mean something important, that they gather from context, but they don't understand the concepts behind those words.
And, too, the grammar of such texts will be archaic.

The amazones picked up a lot of words from the fennekims language. It covered aspects the amazones simply didn't knew or had forgotten about - and thus lacked or lost the words for. With the arrival of the human children, most amazonian specialists learn human script and the humans native language as to be able to work through the rich amount of data the humans microfiche library provides them with.

Chemistry, mining, metallurgy, optics, physics, … they see the potential in it all. Both in the civilian as well as the military aspects. Just as they see the danger that adult humans might pose that do not see other beings - like the amazones and the fennekim - as fellow sapients.
After all, they know the tribes, who see everything not to their liking as food.

As a result, many of the new words and concepts slip smoothly from the human language into their own language.

Characteristics

In General: Female anthro zebra, 7 to 8 ft tall. Trained and educated as soldiers or military support, slender but muscular ( rather lean and high endurance than maximised power output ). Each soldier - rather legionaire - is a specialist in large scale combat ( siege engines, fortifications, logistics) as well as in personal combat with sword, crossbow and other weapons as available. Pragmatic, slower reflexes ( than humans ), very strong and very high endurance are their main characteristics. They are good natured and have a sense of humor ranging from harsh and below the beltline to cheerful and impish. They are very self-conscious and self-assured, very outspoken, hopefull and calmly optimistic - yet educated to plan with pessimistic assumptions. Murphys Law is what they expect from life, but it's not going to stop them. Silent and soft in their feelings, they admire art and the skill of the small people, the fennekim. All that passed through military training tend to be technical perfectionists with what humans would call an “Engineer Mindset”. Being on the menu for most living things in the deserts and steppes of their home continent, they have a strong group-orientation, placing the good for many quite regularly higher than their own wellbeing.

Architecture

Humans would consider it something like roman construction with ancient egyptian designs. Amazones love bathing, and their towns have many fountains, bassins, and artifical lakes as well as public baths.

Musical Key

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1fVVQugiy0

Reference for speed perception: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIEnbqr3O34 at 80% speed.

Daily music

The females mainly do work-chants, improvising percussion instruments like drums, if at all. Otherwise it's small instruments like flutes/pipes, or claves they use. The focus is on easy portability and the ability to survive the hot desert climate with only minimal maintenance. The males in the high towers of the princess palaces are a totally different issue. They build large and sometimes complex musical instruments, and learn to play them, to use them for the waking call ( rather, waking music ) at dawn or for other occasions. Most towers posess acoustically amplifying elements, like resonance chambers between the floors, to make their music widely audible.

Examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsUAblRn7U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KCfma_yoY0

Amazone work-detail chorus, addressed to the males in the princess palace tower.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8rsEodZ8tc

Work-detail chorus; considering amazones do have deep voices, they're not far off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP0NmJnsIjs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWErSfJWzzo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOrYsTvgtaI

An amazone century moving out to take down a cacti queen spider that threatens a caravan route.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evOcMKvv9aw

A piece that would well mix the few fragments of the tigers ancient culture and their place in the amazones culture. A piece amazones would play for a tigress danceress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqWcm6MMiHk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjG0x9zjT_I

With what the males in the Princess Palace Tower call their towns garrision to rise at dawn.

Typical City Names ( human transscripts ):

Xochtli, Thebes, Tehuioy, Persepolis, Ur, Meroe, Waterdeep, Antep, Tenoch, Agra, Menos, Leta, Bassorah, Persepolis

Rolemodels

Knight in shining armor ( Veni, Vidi, Vici + To serve and protect ), with longsword, oversized assault crossbow ( type: I punch holes in mudbrick walls );

Bloodsoaked dragonslayer ( methodical mayham “nothing shall bar my way to rescue my friend” ; );

Bejewelled graceful host in transparent silks ( “Oh, I heard that you humans can change your skincolor. These red cheeks really suit you well. And you don't need to look elsewhere. I heard about your human customs of always wearing clothes, so I put this silken toga on… Yes, it is transparent. Why is that relevant?” )

Female Names

Default: <name>, daughter of <mothers name> of the <century's name> of <town of birth> Example: Ina, daughter of Asha of the 3rd Water-Workers of Xochtli

Upon being accepted as a soldier in a towns Legion: <name> of the <century's name> of <hometown> Example: Ina of the 2nd Shields of Arcadia

and upon receiving an award for excellency/bravery: <name> <nickname> of <hometown> Example: Ina Iron-Reaper of Arcadia

Typical names ( human transscripts ): Ina, Asha, Kara, Kira, Lina, Ana, Anka, Ike, Inwe, Chana, Alwa, Ani, Ewi, Chiwa, Newi, Pala

Typical Century names ( human transscripts ): Water-Workers, Dam-Builders, Dragon-Tamers, Guards, Shields, Swords, Stone-Breakers, Mechanics, Reapers, Miners, Catapults

Archetypes
Common Amazones one might meet in a town

Civilian: Rule-of-thumb: All amazones are trained soldiers. Thus even a fragile danceress of their kind will have a certain amount of muscles, sufficient to make the average human feel safer having her on his side in a bar brawl. Amazones have no nudity taboo, instead, rather the opposite is true: Wearing clothing means you could hide offensive weapons, so for an amazone wearing nothing beyond a belt to hang a few pockets / pouches from for money and personal effects is totally normal. Though even then they'll wear a Dagger, and an amazone dagger has a blade of 40cm length, so resembles a human shortsword actually. These daggers are multi-tools, so they combine a saw/serrated blade and a thin spike on the blades tip, making them effective daily tools - and terrible weapons in a knife range fight. Most jobs ( blacksmith, carpenter, farmer, channel-digger, mason ) are done nude , or in only the protective gear ( blacksmith: Leather Apron; Mason: heavy gloves and ankle-guards ) suitable for the task. Work outside the citywalls is done in light leather armor, in which case every amazone carries her normal sword ( = human long/bastard sword ) on their back and a medium crossbow on her tigh. Beside jobs where physical strength is of advantage, amazones, especially older ones, often work as scribes or calculators. As a result, most businesses are run by fennekim, but the entire admin staff of them is usually disabled, old or physically unfit for the military amazones.

Danceress: Not as famous as the fenwas or tigresses, as they lack the fluent easiness of their predatory sisters, they draw just as much attention. Not only for that they are much more inviting and accepting of touches than almost anybody else… Whilst a human might slap somebody who gazes too openly, or slap somebody who gazes and touches, an amazone would most likely slap him who gazes but doesn't touch - “You're too timid? *slap* This way you'll never fetch a girl. Here *grab his hand and guide it where he looked* that is how it feels. You see? Next time don't stare.” *releases his hand* Their bodyshape is much more curvaceous - fenwa's can be mistaken for a male of their species easily when clothing accordingly - and more busty. Or they just know how to better accentuate it. Most danceresses don't do it for a life, but to relax, so many soldiers are danceresses, using their combat trained motions in their dances. Their dances are often retelling historic important fights, or their own recent fights. A “sword dance” is often an honored and celebrated way to do a public farewell to friends that died.

Musician / Singer: Amazones voices are deep and most of their songs are choirs sung together at dusk and dawn and ceremonies, or it are rythmic work songs to make hard labor more bearable. As musical instruments they love tubular bells, glockenspiele, hammered dulcimers and deep resounding flutes / pipes. As storytellers amazones .. .suck. They are trained from small onward to give precise reports, which ruins most of them for this job. Clothes are rather optional for them like for most other amazones inside towns. Those working closely with tigers and humans tend to wear light toga's …. until those others have acclimatizes to the city and then those “inhibiting, heat collecting carpets” are off again.

Soldier / Legionaire: Medieval knights armor. Blades on the lower arm guards to make even slapping an enemy a gesture capable of chopping limbs off, steel claws and serrated spikes and rims on the knees, boots, shoulderguards and back of the armor. Think of a “Warhammer Chaos” Armor. Just designed by women to be elegant AND deadly. Since the amazones joined up with the Fennekim the Sexyness of the armors was enhanced, showing cleavage, and accentuating the female forms male fennecs react the most to ( i.e. waistline, hips and cleavage / boobs ).
Think what makes a human male drool, too, and you get what Amazones know to combine with armor making to make their soldiers companions fight like madmen to protect them. Large crossbows for ranged combat, with the quarrels stored in magazines on their right tigh and the right upper arm, an amazone longsword ( humans: Oversized 2-handed sword ) on their back and their standard issue dagger ( as mentioned above ). Most amazones leaving the safety of their towns walls gear up with full battle armor and equipment. A joke the human children develop as they grew older is that for the Amazones, “Clothes” is everything made of platemail. Everything else is either lingerie or handily carried polishing towels for their weapons.

City guards: City guards are those amazones who's fighting abilities are not yet considered sufficient for real fights, or no longer considered sufficient. They wear a “skirt” made from reptile leather-strips, and weighted at the ends, which can be pulled off and used both to bind an offenders legs and arms as well as be used as a bola to disable a fleeing person. Otherwise they wear only a long staff. They do wear a wide belt carrying a bladderwort and a pouch with food ( dates, grass, flowers ) and small personal effects. They are not given anything that would be overly lethal. City guards regularly take care of the large draft lizards ( 10m long Komodo Dragons ) the amazones use for draft animals of their caravans and for work-beasts inside the towns walls. They also are to intervene in quarrels and to resolve them peacefully.

Stallion / Male Zebra: One can meet those usually only through an appointment given by the princess of the town. Such occasions are usually asking services beyond what the small people or the available female amazone specialists can offer. This will typically be the services of a historian, designer or teacher.


Stallions

So far, basically all written covers the female zebras, the literal amazones. The males of the Amazones are hardly ever seen. But heard each morning and evening at dawn and dusk as they call the town to rise or to go to sleep. There are on average 100 females for one male, making it completely ridiculous to the amazones to contemplate letting males do any type of work where there is any kind of risk involved. As a result, the culture of the Amazones tends to shelter the stallions so much that nowadays it's considered totally normal to have the few males of a town reside in the central keep of a towns palace. Like a gender-reversed harem, but that the males are there for all the amazones.

As a side effect of those limited living quarters, few towns can manage more than a handful of stallions. In ages past this lead to problematic actions about which the amazones are still today pained to think. And whilst they do not make a secret of what happened in the past, it's a sure partykiller to mention it anywhere.
Nowadays 'excess' males grow up in their city and either they or their father leaves the town when the young stallion reaches adulthood. In former times alone, as a proof of their strength and cunning, nowadays with the same honor guard of a fennekim as protector as every amazone, they leave their town and move through the desert to either another town or to a fennekim sietch. With most fennekim sietches nowadays posessing a gudigwadi - a 'bunker' for passing carawans to rest a few days - and at least a small set of rooms and corridors made suitable for the tall zebras of both genders, these solitary males are most welcome by the fennekims to teach them about the crafts and skills of the amazones as well as to serve as social contact and liasion for the amazone caravan guards.
And quite regularly, these males will find a lifetime task of bookkeeping waiting for them.

The stallions are 6 to 8 ft tall. Usually they are specialized in the arts and 'specialized' crafts, such as:

mathematics,
engineering designs,
scribes,
architects,
artisans and
poetry and music.

They tend to have a delicate appearance, compared to the females. Yet they are strong and have good endurance compared to a human. The nature of the males to be of more muscular than the females of the species results in the males being roughly the equals of the well trained females. Their physical training is usually checked on by the stratega of a town, who is usually so old that she is no longer in heat and also physically still more than fit enough to beat even a strong stallion into submission - should one of them have a stupid idea.

The males excel however as astronomers, wise men, as confessors and advisors. They educate the amazons children ( filly ; squire ) before they become of age, after which contact is restricted. Like the females they are group-oriented, but they are stronger individualists ( “my skills for the good of all” ), each investing a lot of time into what interests him personally. Yet they, too, are members of the town, and so do and learn their alloted share to fulfill the tasks society expects them to.

Five to ten stallions per 1000 Amazones is a not so uncommon ratio, so “father of a company” might well be a true term for most stallions.


Male Names

Default: <name> of <town of birth>

Example: Asa of Xochtli

Typical names ( human transscripts ): Asa, Apep, Aki, Efu, Enki, Bika, Hare, Naton, Ondo, Sase

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