Village leaders are chosen for their leader qualities, willingness to listen, and determination to protect their people.
Another important person, the judge, brings order and settles most disagreements.
Each village has six to eight families, who may live in or around it.
Villages are often designed around a central point, where the village hall typically sits.
This building is widely considered the most important, as village meetings and justice is administered from it.
Relatives tend to live close to each other, often arranging their houses around a courtyard.
This creates an open area that's a safe place for hatchlings to play.
Often, a spring is located here, as well as at least one large garden, in a corner, where it's out of the way of hatchlings.
Each home has access to the open courtyard and a smaller space that usually is a private garden, where any dragon who needs to retreat to a quiet place may go.
Families:
They are closely knit, caring, and peaceful.
The parents try to provide a wonderful home for their young ones.
One parent goes to work, while the other cooks, cleans, and helps the youngest hatchlings at the home.
As the hatchlings grow older, they will be expected to help their parents.
When the hatchlings reach a certain age, they are called dragonets.
They learn help around the house and in the family garden.
Dragonets are taught by an elderly dragon who is assisted by a few other adults or older dragonets.
A common toy is a variation of the Anemos instrument
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Every hatchling makes one or two, as best they can, and they love to run with them around the house.
Courtesy:
The Réaltans highly value this important trait and teach their children to use it ever day of their lives.
Travelers are often welcomed into homes, where they will be served a meal and the hosts insist that the guests need to stay at the home for the night.
All families have at least one guest bedroom for their visiters and the hosts try to make their guests feel at home.
The Réaltans also have a special seating system, so the most important dragons sits as the guest of honor right next to the host and gets first choice of the food served.
The least important guests always sit at the foot (or as the tribe says, the tail) of the table.
Status:
Although the Réaltan tribe doesn't have a special trial, like the Quetzalcoats' Placement event, the Réaltans value organized status systems.
The tribe allows individuals to rise to become leaders, if they're suited for and care about the people, not the position's power.
However, some families have still become more important, powerful, and richer than others.
Some ways status is shown, especially for the richest dragons, is with gorgeous homes, fine jewelry, beautiful music, and elegant dances.
The status system forbids any storm dragon from leading the tribe, but some dragons, members of the Vindur Seeker group,
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are trying to get rid of that unfair rule.
To this date, they have been unsuccessful, but they're still determined to give storm dragons fair treatment and opportunities.