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The Dacians (: Daci) are an based around the nation state of Dacia. Modern Dacians are the direct descendants of the ancient. Today, the vast majority of Dacians are Tavist, but their denomination of Tavism is considered especially unique, and outright heretical by some groups. Dacians also speak the language.

Ethics
In Dacian society, one's dedication to their community, society, and nature are the most important things. Gossip and snickering behind backs are considered womanly and are avoided by men and women alike, preferring open confrontation and honesty.Honor often means to be a good soldier, to help the poor, to undertake pilgrimages to the mountains and to dedicate oneself to religion. Public opinion is very much dependent on how the person acts in accordance to nature and religion.

But as society depends so much on the light in which others saw you, the public view can not only elevate you, but so too it can destroy you. Any news, be it good or bad, can spread like wildfire in a society that, considered womanly or not, spent much of the day gossiping in the public baths, or mingling on the terraces. In the poor parts of town, graffiti is scribbled on walls, and drunken songs might ridicule the high and mighty. In satirical movies (or historically, plays), actors and actresses can praise or deride public figures.

Holidays

 * February 24 - Dragobete - A betrothal holiday held traditionally on February 24th, but has been noted to be moved up to March 1st due to bad weather or be started earlier on February 14th. The days between these three dates are a school holiday, and children and young men alike have free. The girls would have to run from the boys with a head start, with the boys trying to kiss the one they fancy. The girls would usually already know who she fancies and would allow him to kiss her to betrothe him. As such, if a girl pushed away the boy, it was a rejection.
 * May 25 - Cotuție - A festival of love dedicated to Tabiti, the Dacian aspect of Astarte. It is started as a ritual celebrating marriage by a large, but monogamous group coitus in the terme at late night. It's held on the 25th of May. After a couple is married, they may be inducted into the Cotuție rituals by the groom's parent. Sexual contact outside the marriage is banned and considered sacrilegious, however, having coitus near other people is accepted.A Dacian girl at the Dragobete.jpg

Rituals

 * Baptism - This Tavist holiday is on a boy or girl's thirteenth birthday. During this day, the child is officially becomes an adherent of Tavism. At this ceremony, the entire family and friends come to the local fire temple. When at the temple, the teenager reads a short creed from Revelation of the Kerana, stating their beliefs in the core principles of Tavism. Once the reading is completed, the person is stripped of their clothes and undergarments and steps into a large pool. After this, the child is cleansed by a priestess, after which a priest says "I hereby declare this person a true follower"; after which the child is brought down into the water for at least three seconds, and rises up, as a Tavist. After this, the ceremony is officially complete, the procession erupts in celebration. This is the day a Dacian gets his or her first tattoo, becoming inducted in the cult of Zalmoxis.

Appearance
The Dacians are especially notable for being seeming out-of-place in the region in terms of appearance. One would guess that a Dacian originates from northernmost Europe, rather than Dacia. Dacians are usually quite tall, much more so than the southern Europeans, such as the Romans or Greeks, towering over them. They have pale skin, also contrasting peoples south of Dacia. Most notably, the majority of Dacians have red hair, while other Dacians have light brown hair, which made them famous among ancient writers. Dacian eye color is usually grey or blue.

In Dacian culture, what is considered attractive for females are wide hips and toned thighs with an ample bosom. Large breasts are usually seen as comical and are undesirable, but ample ones are admired and desired. Girls are not expected to be just as physically fit as men are, but in the South of Dacia, namely Roxolania, women usually are as fit as men, due to Sarmatian influence. Facial beauty is clearly desirable and sought out. On the other hand, what is considered attractive for males are large calves and forearms. Along with this, a strong back and toned abdomen is also desirable. Smelling good is also a concern among Dacian men. The most desirable face for a Dacian is to have a full beard, mostly braided or let loose shaggily. The most beautiful tattoos become a mark of desire and love. For women, big eyes, plump lips, and a round face are most desirable.

The hairstyles in Dacia vary, From short, Roman-like hair, to long, burly down to shoulder-length, tied up in a knot behind or on the side or the top left long and flipped on one side, and the sides shaved for men, or braided or loose long hair for women, in Dacia is usually long and wild.

In Agathyria, men dye their hair blue in-between February 14th and May 24th. This is to represent fertility and life, as the sky is also blue and represents one of the aspects of Zalmoxis. For young betrothed, this period extends until their marriage. Afterwards, the hair is completely shaved off, which is an important part of Agathyrian customs.

Language
The vast majority of Dacians speak the, descended from , like all the other. Dacian not to be confused with the non-Romance, ancient. It is especially notable for being influenced by the ancient Dacian language and the encircling languages, but also having Scythian and Sanskrit influences.

The Dacian alphabet only contains the following letters in order: a, ă, â, b, c, d, d̦, e, f, g, h, i, î, j, l, m, n, o, p, r, s, ș, t, ț, u, v, and x. Dacian does not include the letters k, q, y and z. The language also has the letters ă, â, d̦, î, ș and ț, which are pronounced like /uh/,  / ugh /, /z/,  / ugh / ,  / sh /  and  / zz / , respectively. The letters â and î, sounding the same, are used stylistically either in the middle of the word or the begginning and end of the word, respectively. The c is pronounced like /tch/ if it is before an i and e, however this can be nuliffied by adding the letter h between the two, they will be pronounced normally as a /k/. The same applies to the g, which is pronounced like a  /dj/ if before an e or i. The letter j is notable for being pronounced like /zh/ at all times.

Names
Dacian names follow the typical western method of naming, with a given name coming first, after which comes the surname, or the family name. Historically, the father's name would be the surname of a Dacian child, however, it eventually became hereditary. Here is an example of a Dacian name:
 * (Praenomen) Burebista (Nomen) Zalmoș

Family
Before the arrival of Tavism, households comprised the head (usually the father) of the household, his wife, children, and other relatives or extended family. Often, when at war, the head of the household was expected to die honorably in combat or return victorious. If winter provisions did not suffice, the head of the household would sacrifice himself to lessen the burden on the family. This was usually done by climbing a holy mountain in reverence of. Rural communities were more matriarchal, as the father and the sons usually went up in the mountains with their animals for pasture, usually together in large groups from the villages, leaving the women (and a few men) to defend themselves from June to September.

With the introduction of Tavism by the 1000s AD, household roles became clearly defined. Tavism made it easier for women to learn themselves how to fight should the need ever arise. In urban areas, however, the head of the household is the father of the family, or patriarch, but his wife, matriarch, decides matters within the household, and anything to do with children. The patriarch, or father of the family generally decides how the household itself is ran and external businesses of the family, but so can the matriarch if she so desires; since when a marriage is completed, wife and husband are economically treated as one.

Dacians have been noted to be much more conservative than the so-called Roman standard. Dacians still believe in the woman's role is strictly and only at the hearth and in the house. Women working outside motherhood or as a priestess are disregarded as breaking common sense. Still, the sexes are seen as complementary and necessary for life

When a Dacian boy graduates from school, they do not move out of their parent's household, as Dacian children are expected to take care of their parents and contribute to the household until death. If there is not enough space in their parent's house, children are expected to get a house very close-by, if not right next to their parent's house. Outside of the obvious immediate family and friends, a Dacian is also expected to have close relationships with their extended family and neighbors. A Dacian only inherits the main property of the family when the father and mother decides to go into the family bordei in the mountains or in a hunting lodge in the plains and near forests.

Marriage
Premarital sexual relations are not stigmatized or condoned by the Dacian public, and dating has become prevalent far and wide. However, it's stigmatized against doing it in the baths, were only married couples are allowed to engage into this. Dating is prevalent, and both boys and girls are expected to start a relationship. However, after the Dragobete festival, this is expected to, and usually does, end.

Although in most Tavist nations, as of a child's eighteenth birthday they are of marriageable age. However, in Dacian communities, this is placed at a child's sixteenth birthday. When a child reaches the age of sixteen, they are allowed to attend the practices during the holy day of Dragobete. On this day, observed on the 24th of Feburary, young maidens and boys go out into nature, the girls picking flowers, and singing songs with the boys. Afterwards, the girls and boys talk and get to know each other. After this, a running contest is held. The girls are given a head-start and the boys have to catch the girls and give them a kiss. After a kiss is given, the boy and girl officially become betrothed to become married. After this race ends, the rest of the day is spent with laughter and a huge banquet held for the newly betrothed couples.

From any time from the start of April to the end of June, before harvesting season, the boy would somehow kidnap his bride, usually by sneaking into her room at night, and carry her to the designated wedding place, where a large wedding is organized by the boy's family. The kidnapping takes place with the knowledge of the girl's family, who are also present at the wedding location, creating a surprise wedding.Marriage customs and traditions vary wildly across Dacia and her regions, but after the girl and boy are changed out of their clothes into wedding clothes, and after religious customs take place, intense celebrations begin, with heavy drinking of wine and cider, and loud music, so that everyone will know that a wedding is occurring and that they may come. After a long celebration, the bride is carried off to the groom's house, where the marriage is consummated. However, some brave couples might even consummate the marriage at the place of the wedding, in front of everybody. The most bizarre couples even consummate the marriage in the streets and in front of the entire town, truly showing the status of marriage to everybody. When married, brides move into their groom's home, and thus the marriage is considered complete. Dowries and bride-prices are non-existent, to expel concern over the wealth of bride and groom. Spouses are generally never younger or older than each other than four years, but with the advent of the modern era, the age gap generally never exceeds a year.

A woman is considered lucky if pregnant within the first year of marriage. In general, she is gifted by friends, family and her own husband. It is considered lovely to be a mother and one is expected to breastfeed until the age of two. To raise a child is both the father's and mother's duty. The father is expected to be a good role model, play sports with him, train him and go with him in the mountains, regardless of sex. The mother is expected to be both nursing and feeding them and be a good tutor if they need help.

Education
Urban education generally starts at the age of five, at which they are sent to school, usually owned by the Dacian government. From here, they start elementary school, which focuses on basic academic learning and socialization skills, introducing children to the broad range of knowledge, skill and behavioral adjustment they need to succeed in life - and, particularly, in secondary school. The subjects here are flexible and broad, ranging from singing, Tavism, science, to history. However, the most time-consuming subject here is learning to read, write, and speak correct Dacian. Physical education and prowess in combat are a huge component of Dacian culture, and takes up nearly a third of the school day. Exercise and playing takes place in the gymnasium, where girls and boys train at different times, both in the nude. Boys frequently play Oină, the national sport, or compete in running competitions. Girls often do the same. During summer, students have vacation.After reaching the age of ten, Dacian children graduate from primary school and enter middle school, which they attend from the age of ten to fifteen. Here, more soft subjects such as music and arts are incorporated, and the teaching of Tavism increases. Those who don't want to take Tavism can take more music or arts. In addition to this, Dacian children start to learn Latin for their entire stay, about 5 years. Dacian children easily pick up on Latin due to it being closely related. On the other hand, subjects such as science and history are decreased and toned down. Otherwise, subjects such as math and reading, writing, and speaking Dacian continues. During Summer, both female and male students in middle school start to attend Summer camps in the mountains of Dacia. Boys often head further mountains to learn how to survive, while girls stay behind, learning about nature, and learn how to cook. However, if they prove they are capable, girls may also go with the boys to survive further into the mountains. In the evenings, after returning from lessons and hunting, boys compete in sports such as Oină, and are watched by the girls. After this, the camp has dinner and goes to sleep in gender-separate cabins for a new day. Girls and boys often use this time to get to know each other and talk.Shortly before entering high school, Dacian children are married in the previously discussed Dragobete holiday. Following their sixteenth year, Dacian boys graduate to high school from middle school, which they attend until they are eighteen years old. From here, high schools keep crucial subjects such as reading, writing, and oratory in Latin, along with physical education. Other than these two subjects, boys can now choose the majority of their subjects, choosing their future career paths.

Girls, during this time, from 16 to 18, completely study in motherhood, cooking, how to be good spouses, how to raise children, and how to run a household. However, girls are also allowed to keep their music and arts courses. Both boys and girls continue to learn Latin and study Dacian for another two years as well here. Physical education is dropped as an educational activity in high school.

Boys here spend their time interning for jobs, gaining experience, while girls have the option of taking the time to get pregnant, if her husband's parents are rich enough. Otherwise, she has freetime during the summer, and takes the time to train to be a good wife. During this freetime, visits into the mountains to temples are frequent for women.

During high school, a select few of well-behaved and excelling boys and girls can choose to become priest or priestesses of Tavism. From 16 to 18, they are trained in the Dacian denomination of Tavism, considered heretical by outsider Tavists. They also continue to learn art and music, which is considered necessary for Dacian Tavism for religious celebrations. Priests often have a priestess as a spouse, and vice versa.

Following graduation, and the end of education, Dacian men enter the workforce in their respective field. On the other hand, women remain at home. Dacian women usually wait until her husband has enough money to support a child, meaning that from 18 until their early twenties, Dacian women have much more freetime and freedom, as her only responsibility during this time is to cook for her husband. Most women during this time take temporary, easy jobs to help her husband, such as hairdressing. Usually, around the age of 21 or 22, women get pregnant for the first time, deliver, and start to have children. A Dacian woman usually only has two to four children, and often stop trying to have children by the time they turn thirty.

Dacian men for specific job fields which require much more expierience, such as becoming a medical doctor, go to universities for an additional ten more years of education. However, this is relatively rare, as the vast majority of jobs do not require this. Dacian men do not move out of their parent's house, but rather he raises a family there, and has an additional responsibility to take care of his parents as they get older.

Jobs
After graduation from school, a Dacian man would first find a job to support his new wife and family. Such jobs are at the entry-level and do not pay much, however, by the time his wife is 26 and the couple has had their first child, the average Dacian man would have advanced quite far already into their careers, getting paid enough to support his wife, child, and community around him. Work for the average Dacian male usually continues into his late-fifties to early-sixties, after which they retire to the household to pursue their personal hobbies or help the new generation raise children. Some Dacian males retire to the mountains to pursue Zalmoxis one last time, usually living in a monastery or a bordei, a half-dug house type used in rural places were rotunde are not used and the mountains as cabins. These Dacians are checked on by the government and families regularly. They usually are joined by their bride.Dacian women rarely ever work, and if they do, they are the jobs which a woman does to support the transition from school to work to support a household. At 24, the first child is usually born in a Dacian family, and the woman officially retires in a semi-traditional party from the job when she passes six months of pregnancy, the women are expected to raise their children. After the child is old enough to take care of themself, women pursue their personal hobbies. So conservative is Dacian culture, that women from the lower class bar the agricultural jobs are not working. In middle-class and aristocratic families, women are free to follow their personal desires or hobbies in between raising children and being mothers. This is because most of the familial income is earned by the woman's husband.

Renowned are the artisans, craftsmen, and goldsmiths. Jewelry made of gold, silver and other precious materials, combined with noble gems are a trinket for many to love, and are appreciated very much in this world. Equally renowned are Dacian pottery, specially crafted with special clay.

A special mining culture has appeared in the so called Miner's Guild. The miner culture often associates mining as being a holy act of the spurned to find redemption. Prisoners and misfortuned souls alike are sent here for the usual mining act. Miners are rarely becoming married and form a sort of holymen underclass, who takes out the sacred gold and silver of the mountains for the Dacians to see.

Terraces
At the center of any true Dacian mountain city is the main terrace, a large open walking, artificial pedestrian space''. ''This is usually where the majority of markets, shops, and vendors are placed. The terrace is also where almost all declarations, speeches, or other political activities take place. In addition to this, the terrace also serves as the primary business district of any Dacian settlement. During the busy hours of the day there is tremendous hustle and bustle. All of a city's important buildings are based around the terraces, such as the banks, courtrooms, or offices of major companies. The loud voices of the lawyers can be heard from quite a distance. Perhaps the loud screeching of a quarrel or a fight, about to break out could be heard. If a public figure had died, his funeral procession would lead through the terrace. In almost all cases, the Tavist fire temple of the city is build near, if not very close to the forum. The terrace itself is frequently decorated as a garden, having trees, plants, and numerous kinds of bushes. All kinds of shops could be placed near the forum, from a market for general goods, to food markets, clothing shops, or even a shop for luxury items such as wine or jewelry. Life in the terrace is always bustling, from dawn from long after dusk, even until midnight.

In the lowland plain cities, these terraces are replaced by the Dacian for, a copy of the Roman forum. They are set up in the same way a Dacian main terrace would be set up.

Bazilică
Also a component of any real Dacian city are bazilici, or public offices. A bazilică is an umbrella term for a variety of any building used for business or any public service. This can include buildings such as a court for law, a hospital for the ill, a bank for loaning or other financial activities, or an office for workers of a large company. Large-scale manufacturing or any factories are directed away from the cities, for sake of decency.

Shelter
There are three major types of Dacian housings, some introduced by the Romans. The poor or urban population live in insule, an apartment complex, or bordeiuri, a one-floor semi-underground house. The middle class usually live in rotunde, a single-family, two-level, usually, but not necessarily round house, found both in the urban and the rural areas. The wealthy, affluent class live in vile, away from the cities, like the Romans, and can sometimes even be found in the mountains. Historically, all insule and some rotunde had shops at their entrances, but with the dawn of modernity and supermarkets, this practice mostly has disappeared.

Insule have been introduced by the Romans in Dacia, and historically have been dangerous places to live, with frequent fires and collapses, thus causing them to be under heavy, strict building and fire regulations from early on in Roman, and subsequently Dacian, history. Insule complexes come in hundreds of designs, but as a general rule, modern insule have a kitchen, two large bedrooms, one for the kids, and the others for the parents, and a toilet. Bathing would take place in the community terme instead of the home. Modern insule are stacked on each other, forming a complex.

Rotunde, on the other hand, are quite larger, designed for the majority of Dacian families. While the most classic designs were made out of wood and were quite small, since the Romans, they have evolved into new buildings of both Dacian and Roman origin. The classical rotunda, which is found mostly in the rural parts, is surrounded by a round porch on the outside, while angular rotunde have a porch on the back of the property. It includes multiple rooms, an indoor courtyard adopted from the Romans and beautifully painted walls that are elaborately laid out. It generally has an small entrance hall which leads to a large central hall, called the atriu, which is the center of the rotunda. The central hall is the most important part of the house, where guests, clients, and friends were greeted. While usually these atrii are closed, urban rotunde usually have a retractable roof and an indoor garden.
 * Leading of this central hall were numerous bedrooms, which number can depend on the size of the family. But in general, there is one bedroom for every wife and their husband in the household. As for children, there is one bedroom for young children, and another bedroom for teenagers of the household.


 * In addition to bedrooms, the central hall would lead into the dining room, the tricliniu, where casual eating takes place.

The bordeiuri are the Dacian lower class rural house, an ancient model that has evolved a lot. This house, built partly inside the ground, is used in both cities, rural areas and in the mountains. The mountain bordeiuri are considered to be staying places for when one wants to listen to the voice of Zalmoxis in the mountains.
 * The central hall would also lead to the the kitchen, the bucăterie, the living room, the bathroom, and the study room, where studying or business takes place.
 * The atriu also leads to the back of the house, where there is usually a garden and a porch

The traditional shops in Dacia have mostly disappeared, but most supermarket brands have small corner 'supermarkets' in the city, and make it feel more quaint than the large, big shopping malls found in Rome. Pharmacies, small bakeries and other businesses are found in the first floor of insule. Special workshops for different jobs have also been noted.

Baths
The Roman thermae have been introduced to Dacian culture soon after the invasion of Dacia. These terme are large bathing complexes within a Dacian community. They are common places to go after work, relax, socialize, bathe, groom oneself and to engage into the more passionate fields of love...

The principal entrance of a terme, called an atriu, both in ancient and modern times was a place to post advertisements, especially in large cities. From there, it leads to the apoditariu, or changing room. Since clothing is banned in terme, all clothing must be removed here prior to entering the baths proper or the gymnasium. The apoditariu leads to both the baths proper and the gymnasium, the latter which is discussed below.Upon leaving the apoditariu, the bather would first enter the frigidariu, or a cold plunge-bath. These cold baths also double as a swimming pool.

From the frigidariu the bather who then wished to go through the warm bath and sweating process entered the tepidariu, or warm room. In Dacian terme, these are merely hot rooms with a few basins, to groom, bathe oneself and accommodate to large temperatures. Historically, bathers would have been anointed with olive oil here, but in the modern age, this is where bathers apply soap or other washes.

From the warm room, a bather would then enter the caldariu or hot bath. This is where the bather would finally wash off any oil or soap they had on before entering. The caldariu is a more requisite part of the baths, and usually, children and adults would be separated. As adults frequently engage in coitus with their spouses while here. A Roman laconicum, or sauna, is usually not part of the Dacian terme, and are only present in hot-spring terme. These are called sudatoriu. Even then, they are only opened in winter, when, after relaxing in the sudatoriu, people would exit to the pontoon and jump in the ice-cold lake for revigorment.

Almost every Dacian bath has a special subsection called a salinariu. These are saltwater baths used to cure respiratory and skin problems. A salinariu session takes usually around two hours, during which a small crust of salt begins to be put on the user's body. This is then washed down in a nearby pool.

The Dacian bather would go into a tepidariu first, then into a caldariu and then into a frigidariu. Interestingly, and seemingly out of place, all baths are unisex, but the caldarii are split between adults and children. This is due to the sexual practices practiced by the Dacians in the caldariu, meant for relaxation and developing the relations of the couple.

Almost all young men, women, and older children go to the gymnasium (Dacian: gimnaziu) before entering the baths, an open field enclosed by walls. Gymnasiums are very much a community center for youths, who visit it as a past-time between their academic education and jobs, if they have any. Gymnasium are unisex and are not separated by gender. This is where youths exercise, play sports, or do similar activities before entering the baths.

Food
Dacians usually start their day off with breakfast, which is served at dawn. After which they eat a small lunch at noon, and in the late afternoon, Dacians eat dinner; which was originally in the evening. Most Dacian foods is based around bread, along with eggs, mutton, sheep cheese, goat milk, herbs and many kinds of berry sauces, and the New World potatoes and tomatoes. The main ingredients are usually sprinkled with only salt. Other common foods include pork sausages and trout, as well as special venison or boar stews.. Business or political meeting are almost always aligned with eating times, whether it be breakfast, lunch, or dinner.

Breakfast is generally regarded as an important, but not the most important, meal in Dacian culture. Traditionally, it is light in calories, but nutritious. The traditional breakfast usually includes porridge or bread, eggs, cheese with milk. Lunch is almost always a small snack rather than a meal, and frequently contain a baked potato or a sour Dacian soup. Dinner is regarded as the culturally most important meal. It typically includes a small serving of meat, generally chicken, but also mutton, or fish, especially common are trouts. In addition to either fish or meat, vegetables are commonly eaten with them. The main alcoholic beverage is watered-down cider or wine, while for normal occasions, or beverages for children usually consist of water. Breakfast is usually eaten inside the home, lunch is usually eaten outside or in the terme, and dinner is again eaten at the home. At dinner, it is common practice that stories are recounted by guests or that jokes are told, so that it is made the socially and culturally most important meal of the day.

Occasionally after dinner, Dacian adults, especially younger ones, invite both male and female friends and family to a întâlnire, or drinking party. While wine is drank here, Dacians also smoke marijuana to calm down here. This is also where philosophical or scientific debates take place between friends or family, especially the highly educated.

Oină
Oină is the most popular and national sport of Dacia. It is a game between two teams, 11 men each, with a small, spherical ball which is shot around with special bats. The objective is to run in the lanes of advance and return without being hit after the ball has been shot by the respective player. Contact is not allowed and penalized. The game is played for 30 minutes, with an additional 10 minutes if the game remains indecisive. Afterwards, the game is considered a draw. The Oină season starts in September and usually ends in January or starts in March and ends in July. There are two seasons per year, one being early-year and one being late-year

Football
The second most popular sport nation-wide is Football (Dacian: Fotbal). At most basic terms, the sport is played between two teams, officially with eleven players, with a spherical ball. The game is played on a large rectangular field with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by getting the ball into the opposing goal using any body part than the hands. Contact is allowed, but very limited; and outright hitting is banned. Each team has a goalkeeper who can use the hands to stop the opposing team from scoring within a specific zone. The game is formally played for ninety minutes. If no side wins, the game is played for an additional thirty minutes. If a team still hasn't won, then the game enters a kick-out mode, where the goalkeeper has to stop a single opponent from scoring a goal. The official football season starts in September and ends in February.

Combat
Combat is the third most popular sport in Dacia. Also like Football, it is widespread throughout the world, who try to claim the best method of combat. At the most basic level, the sport is played between two teams. A teams can be one person for one-on-one combat, like the gladiator games, or a from a team of a hundred people. However, the number of players in a sword-fighting match can range from anywhere in between two and two hundred. However, in official sword fighting matches, there are only fifty men on each team. However, in Dacia, the most prevalent version is one-on-one gladiator-style fighting, using the traditional Dacian weapon, the.

The goal of the game is to knock every opponent to the ground with a weapon, shield, or object of similar nature, after which they are out of the round. When all of a team's opponents are knocked down, the game ends, and one team wins.

Extensive safety rules and regulations are put in place to prevent concussion and any other type of notable injury. Swords must be extremely dull, and sometimes, are made of wood instead of metal. In addition to this, hitting an opponent while down will result in expulsion and banning from the game. Players must be careful to allow opponents to escape the battlefield if knocked out of the game. Ranged weapons may hurt, but must be non-injuring. Any personal fouls not part of the game will result in expulsion from the game, sometimes disqualification of the team, and in official matches, temporary banning from the game.

Hunting and Hawking
Hunting and hawking are leasure sports in Dacia, reserved for free time. It is done in the mountains, and is part of the wild meat eating tradition. Deer and boar are hunted for their meat and liver, respectively. Hawking is used for hunting wild hares in the plains. Hunting dogs are used for pheasants. It's an important part of tradition and considered one of the best leisure times one can find in Dacia.

Riding
Riding is a leisure sport, reserved for free time, found mostly in the plains of Dacia. Originally of Sarmatian and Scythian descent, these riding traditions of the plains made up the Dacian cavalry. Riding is considered the pure synthesis with nature in the plains, as it does not require to make a trip to the mountains. As such, many people keep horses in the plains.

Undergarment
Dacian men usually wear a short loincloth known as an undergarment to cover the groin area, especially during winter and when visiting the mountains.

Main Dress
Dacian men almost always firstly put on a tunic, a long shirt extending to the thighs, on them to cover their upper body. The tunic is almost always white, a sign of good luck, and usually, the tunic is fastened into place by a relatively large belt, which is usually brown. During hot months or days, men don't even bother wearing a tunic, only wearing bracchae. After putting on a a tunic, men put on brăchei, or trousers/pants. These pants of course start from the waist and can end either above the knees or right above the ankles. They are not supposed to be baggy nor skin-tight. Men are frequently seen wearing a long cloak in colder months called a paliu, wrapped around the neck, it can extend to the back, to the knees, and even all the way to the ankles. However, the extension to the ankles is only most notably worn by old men and by Tavist priests. Footwear

Dacian men almost always wear simple boots, most often with special grips. This is espicially useful because of the mountainous geography. While indoors and for formal events, Men wear-flat soled sandals, inspired by the Romans.

Other
Dacian men are especially notable for wearing the Phrygian cap. The cap is a soft conical headcap with a small droop at the top, while its color is usually matching the color scheme of the wearer. In addition to this, for formal events, men are also permitted to wear necklaces, bracelets or earrings of gold, silver, or other metal/object, however, this is not permitted outside of formal wear. They are also used in religious ceremonies. Like the Romans, the Dacians do not wear anything while swimming or exercising.

Undergarment
Dacian women wear two types of undergarment, the first of which is called a subligaculă. The subligaculă is a triangular bottom loincloth which covers the groin. It can be made of any material from polyester to cotton.

The second type of undergarment is the mamilare, also of Roman origin, but is extinct in the Roman culture. Dacian mamilare are wrapped around the breasts, becoming a brasserie, to hold up the breasts. Originally, it was simply wrapped under the arms, but as the modern age came, it also has straps held up by the shoulders.

Main Dress
When married, women wear a long tunic over their undergarments with sleeves. This variant of tunic extends all the way down to the ankles, covering a woman's body. This tunic, like the men, is also fastened with a large belt around the waist.

Outerwear
Over the tunic, many Dacian women are also found wearing a pală, a much more decorated, thicker form of the paliu, a cloack that men wear in Dacia. Frequently, păli have been decorated with animal fur or have been directly made of animal fur, although with the advent of animal rights and protests, this style and fashion has been replaced with fake fur. The pală is often decorated with a head of an animal for a hood, such as a wolf's head. Historically, the animal's head was caught and made by the woman's husbands, and then attached onto a pală without a hood by the woman.

Footwear
Dacian women wear generally the same footwear as men, albeit a bit more softer and pointier.

Jewelry and Cosmetics
Jewelry has a large part in Dacian culture, and as such, is worn extensively. Gold and silver necklaces with precious stones, famous Dacian bracelets and earrings are common practice. These are also used in religious ceremonies. Hair braiding is a popular thing due to Roman influence, however, Dacian jewelry culture has put them in the backstage. Make-up is generally not used.

Children
Dacian boys before marriage typically wear the same clothes as his father, usually as soon as he can walk. This consists of a tunic and brăchei, and infrequently, a paliu.

Dacian girls before marriage are espicially notable for wearing the rochie, a long dress extending to the ankles, almost always white. The rochie can either be worn sleeveless or with see-through sleeves, making an elegant apperence. Only in summer is it worn sleveless. Instead of being fastened at the waist, the dress is fastened at the chest, or bosom, with a star-like belt controlling the fullness of the dress.

Men
A Dacian man would usually get up early, wake his family, typically at dawn, eat breakfast with the family, and head out to work a six hour day, ending at noon. However, men desperate to get more wealth and earn more continue to work for an additional two or three hours. And so the vast majority of Dacian workers would work all morning, adding to the wild hustle and bustle of the a town or city. During this time, high-level businessmen, instead of going to an office, invite clients to their house, where they greet them, recline, and discuss business. Men usually work the heavier, more stressful jobs in Dacian society, such as doctors, engineers, or lawyers, and especially laborious jobs.

Mountain cities of Dacia have artificial terraces, which is called a for and acts as a main place. It is only pedestrian and full of special administrators and commercial buildings. In the plains, these are replaced by Roman-styled forums, also called for. A large stone with advertisements and announcements can be found there. The famous Roman tomata technique applies, where for every 20 minutes of work, there are 10 minutes of break. As soon as the working day ended, for most men, at noon, they went to the baths. Bathing is a social affair, always done with friends brought along. Younger men often spend time in the close-by gymnasium. Usually, lunch is taken there and many couples meet up for more intimate activities. After spending an hour or two, Dacians exit the baths and have another two hours of leisure time, after which they return home for dinner, ending the day. Free-time for men often includes watching television (especially sports such as football) or movies, relaxing, hanging out with friends, or playing games. Typically, the average man retires in his sixties.

Craftsmen are respected for their necessary craft and are respected. As such, many Dacians find equally respected jobs in carpentry or goldsmithing. Mining is generally considered a sacred, but ultimately thought of as the last solution. As such, mining fraternities often think of themselves as the spurned and ostracized from society and revel in their cultural peculiarity.

Women
A Dacian woman usually gets up at the same time as her spouse, and cooks breakfast for the household or family. After saying farewells to her husband, if she has young children, she prepares them to be picked up by the bus for school in the plain regions, or let them use the many mobile transportation in the smaller mountain cities. After this, she usually spends an hour or two back at home cleaning around, preparing dinner. After this, she has until noon as free time, which is about four or three hours. At noon, women bathe with the men, and younger women often visit the gymnasium close-by the terme. After spending an hour or so in the baths, the average Dacian women has about two hours before preparing dinner as free-time again, after which she comes back home to prepare dinner, after which her workday is ended. After dinner, mothers often help children with homework. Free-time for women often includes watching television or movies, going shopping, relaxing, and hanging out with friends. Due to the expectations of society, It is usually considered the mother's responsibility to make sure their children do well in school, which is primarily why females are educated in the first place.

Children
A Dacian child usually is woken up, eats breakfast, and heads off to catch the bus to arrive at school or go with mobile transports like scooters and bikes. Study of academic subjects carry on from arrival at school until dawn. From dawn until noon, students study academic subjects such as oratory or science. After noon, students change out of their clothes and visit the gymnasium for physical education, which is important in Dacian culture. After an hour or two in the gymnasium, students would be sent to the school baths to bathe, after which they are sent home for dinner, ending the student day. Almost all Dacian schools have 10-month school with summer vacations.