Satara Hawk
Singing Mountain Ma'tra
Dathomir is an oligarchy, meaning few rule. Primary, ancient leadership structure is that of Clan leaders that govern any of the existing clans of Dathomir. With their ancient existence, a Council of Clan leaders has been formed to serve as government on the planet of Dathomir. Each clan leader represents a single vote on the Council. Though a substitute can be sent in the place of a Leader, this must be done solely in dire circumstances.
Among the leaders, there are two head leaders. They are referred to as the Leadership, consisting of one leader of light alignment, and one of dark. Together, these two represent Dathomir as a single entity. Their will is not absolute, nor is it personal, they must communicate with the Council of Clan Leaders if need be.
Laws of Dathomir are the highest set of laws on the planet. They are brought by the Council and the leadership, to be enforced by the Leadership on a global scale and Clan leaders on a local clan scale. The purpose of these laws is to ensure the unification of clan stands at all time and forevermore so that the people of Dathomir are never again enslaved by any outsider.
Laws of Clans are ancient laws, standing since time before time. They have been written down long before the unification was agreed upon though ancient laws that fight Laws of Dathomir must take a back seat to the new laws, for the sake of unification and peace.
As Dathomir exists within Mandalorian space, the Leadership and the Council of Clan Leaders support the Mandalorians while all Dathomirian continue to honor the ways of the Witches of Jai. Mandalorian tenets speak of education, defense, family and language, all of which hold true for the Dathomirian people. Together, we can preserve each of our ways against an ever changing galaxy.
The following has been written by Petra Cavataio.
Crime and Punishment
Crimes had many different punishments, but that has changed. For example, when violence is used towards a Dathomirian (regardless of position), they are arrested and held in the clan’s stronghold that criminal was arrested in. Then they are brought to trial in front of the Council. If guilty, the punishment is given by the Clan Leader it happen among. Most of the time, it is a fair and just punishment. The punishment that is handed down can range from enslavement with shock collar to exile from the planet, and even for the severe ones death is ordered for the proper punishment.
Men on Dathomir
This is stated as all Dathomirian know there is a notion by outsiders that witches enslave men, and they are the inferior gender. Over thousand year or so, men being subjugated was the norm, males in the present society are witness to women embracing the ideals of both genders being equal. Yes, some still held to the old ways. However the mass major have made the turn when the clans united, it was made sure that the clans had men on an equal footing, and could lead a clan. While the witches had their training and ways, new order called Jai was created for the men.
Slavery
It has been banned in sense of the old ways. The government does approve indentured servant and willing servants. This is done by supplying room and board, food, clothes, and other means of living. Another rule with the willing is always having the choice for freedom if they decide to leave. As long that is available then the council will not step in. Indentured servant only requires records that their time is applied to the debt owed.
Rancors
Dathomir Rancors are semi-sentient, caring creatures who mourned their family members when they died, and who passed on oral histories of the matriarchal herds into which these rancor organized in to. Their native way of life seems to have been very primitive, using their strength and size to hunt live prey across the planet's savannahs. A symbiosis of rancor sow and female rider seems to have played a major role in dictating the subsequent structure of Dathomiri society. According to the rancors' own traditions, the symbiosis began when a warrior-woman met and healed an injured female; by mounting the rancor's back, her sharper eyesight enabled it to hunt better prey during the day, so that it grew in size and status to become a mighty herd-mother.
Most of Dathomir's rancor population lived in symbiosis with the planet's Witches of Dathomir clans, being used as mounts, and learning to make and use armor and bladed weapons with their help. Rancors of a clan were marked to show clan ownership, but younger ones were not marked and could basically serve as undercover mounts, belonging to no clan. After the years of the New Republic, Tosh the herd leader of the Singing Mountain Clan's rancors, learned to read and write, and began to pass on this skill to other rancors in her group. Then it caught like wild fire to the other rancors herds with present day rancors able to read and write their own language, witches’ language and basic language.
The witches all hold their rancors in high standards and respect but this has not stop some from abusing and manipulate the rancors. Overall, the tone for witches and rancors is the creatures are sentient and spoken to as a person would to another person. They are become family members or best of friends. All tied closely together to better each other. When outsiders sneak in and dare to try to get a rancor for prize, it at times is viewed as an act of war towards the herd and witch clan. Only way of it end is each outsider involved is served as a fest for the herd.
Among the leaders, there are two head leaders. They are referred to as the Leadership, consisting of one leader of light alignment, and one of dark. Together, these two represent Dathomir as a single entity. Their will is not absolute, nor is it personal, they must communicate with the Council of Clan Leaders if need be.
Kytarra Hawk (lightside) ~ TBD (darkside)
Laws of Dathomir are the highest set of laws on the planet. They are brought by the Council and the leadership, to be enforced by the Leadership on a global scale and Clan leaders on a local clan scale. The purpose of these laws is to ensure the unification of clan stands at all time and forevermore so that the people of Dathomir are never again enslaved by any outsider.
Laws of Clans are ancient laws, standing since time before time. They have been written down long before the unification was agreed upon though ancient laws that fight Laws of Dathomir must take a back seat to the new laws, for the sake of unification and peace.
As Dathomir exists within Mandalorian space, the Leadership and the Council of Clan Leaders support the Mandalorians while all Dathomirian continue to honor the ways of the Witches of Jai. Mandalorian tenets speak of education, defense, family and language, all of which hold true for the Dathomirian people. Together, we can preserve each of our ways against an ever changing galaxy.
The following has been written by Petra Cavataio.
Crime and Punishment
Crimes had many different punishments, but that has changed. For example, when violence is used towards a Dathomirian (regardless of position), they are arrested and held in the clan’s stronghold that criminal was arrested in. Then they are brought to trial in front of the Council. If guilty, the punishment is given by the Clan Leader it happen among. Most of the time, it is a fair and just punishment. The punishment that is handed down can range from enslavement with shock collar to exile from the planet, and even for the severe ones death is ordered for the proper punishment.
Men on Dathomir
This is stated as all Dathomirian know there is a notion by outsiders that witches enslave men, and they are the inferior gender. Over thousand year or so, men being subjugated was the norm, males in the present society are witness to women embracing the ideals of both genders being equal. Yes, some still held to the old ways. However the mass major have made the turn when the clans united, it was made sure that the clans had men on an equal footing, and could lead a clan. While the witches had their training and ways, new order called Jai was created for the men.
Slavery
It has been banned in sense of the old ways. The government does approve indentured servant and willing servants. This is done by supplying room and board, food, clothes, and other means of living. Another rule with the willing is always having the choice for freedom if they decide to leave. As long that is available then the council will not step in. Indentured servant only requires records that their time is applied to the debt owed.
Rancors
Dathomir Rancors are semi-sentient, caring creatures who mourned their family members when they died, and who passed on oral histories of the matriarchal herds into which these rancor organized in to. Their native way of life seems to have been very primitive, using their strength and size to hunt live prey across the planet's savannahs. A symbiosis of rancor sow and female rider seems to have played a major role in dictating the subsequent structure of Dathomiri society. According to the rancors' own traditions, the symbiosis began when a warrior-woman met and healed an injured female; by mounting the rancor's back, her sharper eyesight enabled it to hunt better prey during the day, so that it grew in size and status to become a mighty herd-mother.
Most of Dathomir's rancor population lived in symbiosis with the planet's Witches of Dathomir clans, being used as mounts, and learning to make and use armor and bladed weapons with their help. Rancors of a clan were marked to show clan ownership, but younger ones were not marked and could basically serve as undercover mounts, belonging to no clan. After the years of the New Republic, Tosh the herd leader of the Singing Mountain Clan's rancors, learned to read and write, and began to pass on this skill to other rancors in her group. Then it caught like wild fire to the other rancors herds with present day rancors able to read and write their own language, witches’ language and basic language.
The witches all hold their rancors in high standards and respect but this has not stop some from abusing and manipulate the rancors. Overall, the tone for witches and rancors is the creatures are sentient and spoken to as a person would to another person. They are become family members or best of friends. All tied closely together to better each other. When outsiders sneak in and dare to try to get a rancor for prize, it at times is viewed as an act of war towards the herd and witch clan. Only way of it end is each outsider involved is served as a fest for the herd.