Cheska Ovar. The Heart Endures.
Office of the High Warden
Luxemburry / Culture
Luxian culture was made by five valleys that shared a language, a legend, a long winter, and a way of getting through it on skis. Everything on these pages comes from one of those four.
The Luxian language, common to the five valleys long before 1723. The legend of the Stone Heart, which every custom of the Realm points back to. The winter, which the Realm counts its year by. And skiing, which was how the valleys moved in winter, then how they raced, and is now the national sport by Article VII of the Charter.
The Luxian philosophy: endure, welcome, hold the hearth.
Luxian, its ten words every visitor learns, and the dictionary.
Quormé Sabzuee, Abbguscht, dark bread, and the Solstice wine.
The First Descent, the Solstice, the Luxian Descent, Warden's Day, First Bloom, Unification Day.
Every child on skis by seven, free, and Ski Saturdays.
The black glass of the Cinder, the woodcarving of the March, the paper of Aethelgard.
The anthem, the winter songs, and the telling of the Heart.
The year begins with the First Descent on December 1 and ends with the last run on April 15; the summer in between is, Luxians say, for getting the hay in and the skis waxed. The great days are the Solstice, when the Realm eats together, and Warden's Day, when it names its new citizens. See the calendar.
Welcome. The first Luxian word a visitor hears, and the answer to the Oath of the Mountain.
