Real World Influence: Venetian, Byzantine, Phoenician, Ptolemaïc Egyptian Sasinthēnes include two larger ethnic groups, the Onavarans, who come from the archipelago of Great Sasinthē and formed the aristocracy of the Empire, and the Crowns, who descend from the original People of the Ox inhabitants of their early colonies in the Crown. Nowadays, about half of commoners and half of Sasinthēne aristocrats come from either camp. Onavarans tend to have rich, mid-dark skin. Crowns tend to have mid-brown skin.
Sasinthēnes are diligent, belligerent, and maritime. They build obelisk-like monuments and austere statues. They paint primarily figurative subjects but favor sculpture. They are religious and once viewed the expansion of their empires as holy war, as Adanōs, who was a Crown Sasinth, also founded a kingdom. They wear dramatic, colorful clothes in velvet, wool, and linen, or light cream fabrics embroidered with dark, symbolic patterns. Their designs favor the thunderbolt (Elosēchēlon), the twin snakes (Òxion), and the golden crocus (Òuroxon) as symbols. The last represents Panarine. Their music is brassy, integrating buzzing pipes and horns with zithers and a stately, vibrato voice.
They’re represented by the Goentean language, which looks like: ē’Eixou ten atorrēnetam nai di ē’pograstam egi a echē per dai gian nou zemagtheni sousseglesteu xanōchoun (The front is entrenched and the fighting is slim but there are all kinds of presentation of maladies.)