Society
The nagas live in giant cities. All naga cities have a word grazew at the end of their names, so grazew seem to mean city in the old naga language. All cities are formed around a heart tower, because heart towers are religious and political center of the naga society. The largest city of all is Hatengrazew, where main characters of The Bird That Drinks Tears such as Ryun Pei, Samo Pei, Galotec and Viass Markerow come from. However, each naga cities are independent and Hatengrazew holds no direct influence over other cities.
The women rule the naga society. This may be because the women and the men have lost their gap of physical ability through the power that the heart extraction provides and men lost their role as a physical muscle that protect women and children. So, the women are classified as higher beings, and the men's somewhat a lower form of nagas.
All nagas do not recognize and acknowledge the concept of father. They know that such thing exists, but they believe that the sperm men give women is just like every other ingredient a woman needs to birth a child, such as food, water and air. They think it is the mother who is important, and are not very interested in who the father is in the first place.
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