Post:Persida? Questions re Rakash and pet kittens - 11/07/2015 - 22:58

Re: Persida? Questions re Rakash and pet kittens · on 11/07/2015 10:58 PM CST	1386
The Rakash as a culture have no issues with pets of any kind. As a people who see little reason to overcomplicate things and tend to find a lot of the distinctions that other cultures make to be silly and contrived, they're pretty fine with anyone deciding whatever they want to about pet ownership. While horses seem to be somewhat more skittish around Rakash, most other animals have no different reaction to them than they do any other race. Harming butterflies is seem as especially unwise by traditionally-minded or superstitious Rakash as there are many stories about Enelne's frequently violent reaction to such things, but the slaughter of crows and badgers is not even seen as particularly offensive by most. Attempting to have any of these animals as a pet would not be seen as any different than pet ownership of any kind by traditional Rakash -- in general, if you treat the animal well, most Rakash would be inclined to not really care beyond acknowledging that you care and that the animal is part of nature as a whole, which is something to be revered and respected. Abusing animals just for fun would generally be seen as unseemly, but harming them for sport/food/hunting/training is again not anything out of the ordinary. Knowingly harming someone's pet would be generally seen as rude. Unknowingly doing so would still be seen as rude, but many Rakash would be likely to forgive this offense if the person were sufficiently recalcitrant once made aware of the animal's status. There is no significant difference between traditionally minded Rakash as a whole and more Easternized Rakash as a whole when it comes to these matters, except that some Easternized Rakash may have taken on the more extreme views about 'lesser' animals that some of the other cultures tend to hold as true. Rakash are not dogs or wolves any more than Prydaen are cats. There is no overall Rakash cultural aversion towards felines of any kind as pets. (PS. No matter what any Bill Murray character might have said, cats and dogs also tend to do just fine together.) -Persida
This message was originally posted in The Races of DragonRealms \ Rakash - Rakash Pack, by DR-PERSIDA on the play.net forums.