Halash clans
A Halash clan (Amaian: ḑagki jagky, Daikhra: bereq bereq) is a kinship group among the Halash peoples, a polyphyletic grouping of prominent non-Vaniuan peoples in eastern Vaniua - specifically the Amaian, Baitaar, and Voontic peoples - based on shared cultural and societal characteristics such as similarities in their clan systems. They are recognised in an official capacity in [tbd]. X ...
Clan organisation
The clan is divided into a number of smaller families (Amaian: ḑa ja, Daikhra: begdi begdi). These families are matrilineal and matrilocal, and households are headed by the eldest woman in the household (Daikhra: begdinēn begdineen) -, who holds authority over the whole household, her subordinates. This head of the household is expected to be a good citizen who engages with and honours their clan, and who participates in public life, the specifics of what this entails depending on ethnicity and, in some groups, caste. She is responsible for allocating various duties to her family subject to her own discretion.
Often the head will take her daughters under her wing as her apprentices (Daikhra: begdiluva begdiluva), who are granted elevated but not absolute authority in order to prepare them for their future role. When the head of the household dies, each of her daughters becomes the head of her own family. While the eldest daughter was expected to inherit the family name as-is, other daughters might in turn establish their own families or septs, which are typically named after their common ancestor. These septs themselves may branch off into their own septs, and so on, and some septs had the potential to form their own clans upon gaining enough power.
The clan is centred around one core family (Daikhra: qabi qabi), who are considered the head family of the clan, with its head serving as the de jure chief of the entire clan (Daikhra: bereqnēn bereqneen). Clan members are subordinate not to the clan chief specifically, but to the head family as a whole. The death of a clan chief traditionally resulted in the election of a new family to fill the role of head family, or the re-election of the same family under a new clan chief, under a system akin to an elective monarchy. However, the inheritance of the title of clan chief through matrilineal primogeniture gradually became the new norm under Vaniuan influence, and as a result elections became more infrequent, though still possible (e.g. if the current head family's line died out).
Naming conventions
Halash name orders are prototypically clan-family-given, in a similar vein to East Mirarian names. This basic structure can be expanded upon, such as through the use of patronyms before the given name (as in Amaian names) or the specification of septs after the family name (as in Aneer names).
Symbols
The primary symbol of a clan is the kasat, a term co-opted from Balak heraldry. Designs and motifs vary between ethnicity, but strictly governed heraldic conventions are rare, if extant. ...
Aspects specific to Amaian clans
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Aspects specific to Aneer clans
Castes
Unlike other Baitaar groups, the Aneer people developed a strict three-way caste system between the daai (clergy), the daasab (nobility), and the kibaan (citizenry); each clan would belong to one and only one of these castes. Under the diarchical nature of traditional Aneer governance, each territory would be governed by two clans - one daai clan and one daasab clan - with the boundaries of daai and daasab domains rarely aligned with each other. In the aftermath of the massacre of daai clans and other ethnic Aneer citizens by Emperor Shughshudara in [year], the majority of the daasab clans converted to Zarasaism and adopted Vaniuan administrative models and practices, seizing power as the sole ruling caste and abolishing the pre-existing daai caste in favour of a new Zarasaist clergy. The former daai clans were subsumed into the kibaan caste, with different modern clans either emphasising or rejecting their daai legacy.
Septs
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