The land of Ramnos has its own singular culture completely separate from the rest of Tikor — the Mali-Kar.
Children of Temu
Before there was anything, there was Nothing. There was no life in the Nothing. Only the Nothing. That was, until the Divine Entity Temu came to the Nothing one day and saw the opportunity to create something. The immensely powerful being sculpted the world of Tikor on a stream of infinite energy so that the world could make its own life in time.
Temu first created divine children that govern the way the world itself worked. From death to fire to the air to storms, he made a Ra’atum for them all. The Ra’atum would be the deities that don’t control an element but are, in essence, that element. It’s the Ra’atum interacting on some level within the relationships they have that causes things like certain weather patterns or the creation of a landmark.
After creating such powerful children, Temu wanted to craft mortal children who would live and play in the world that was crafted. These would become the Mali-Kar. The Divine Entity first crafted Longisus, Djet, Khaba, Nebra, Sahure, Solaris, Teti, and Unas. These first humans would be considered special among the Mali-Kar — they were the first people who created the first families, the Great Houses of Ramnos.
The stars and the pyramids
A central role in Mali-Kar life is to use the stars to divine future events of humans and the world. The nobles, in turn, expressed their love of the sky by wanting to build structures higher and closer to it. The closer to the heavens a building was, the more blessed it would be. Through the Dynasty and the king, the nobles had commoners build the first pyramids and obelisk towers. These projects each took decades, and the separation in ambition was one of the first wedges between the two social classes — a wedge that still hasn’t closed.