#evaar’ade

[ranahan]

Random headcanons:

Lots of New Mandalorians wear armour and practice self-defence, actually. They might not wear full sets of beskar, but armour weave clothing is extremely popular, and so is wearing at least some beskar, even if it’s a piece of family jewellery instead of plate. It has spiritual significance okay? And if you want a finely tailored (and invisibly armoured) piece of clothing, a New Mandalorian city is your oyster. Many businesses have branch stores on Coruscant, that cater to politicians worried for their personal safety. Naboo also has several.

Martial arts are still extremely popular. The only reason they don’t surpass mesh’geroya in statistics is because there’s such an overwhelming number of different sports. Mandalorians don’t traditionally categorise martial arts as sports, but the New Mandalorians have turned a number of the traditional styles into sports with formalised rules and competitions. And because of this, the New Mandalorian cities actually have some of the largest number of tournaments around. Lots of traditionalist mandos go compete on the sly (it’s not against the rules obv, but some of their comrades get snotty about it).

Teraskasi (from the Han Solo movie) is originally a Kalevalan martial art. (Kalevala is the Finnish national epic & Teräskäsi means “steel hand/arm” in Finnish.) Apparently it does have an established origin, pooh. But want to bet that a martial art that was specifically developed to fight against the Jedi was brought to and studied in Mandalorian space?

There’s a “New Mandalorian” version of the bes’bev without the deadly stabbing tip; it’s called the naakla bes’bev. It’s still a 1-2 foot long piece of hardened steel pipe and can absolutely be used as a weapon. (And for this reason, they’re usually alto or tenor flutes.) They’re the preferred instruments of travelling musicians, because they’re easier to travel with offworld where there might be restrictions on carrying weapons in public avenues.

[frownyalfred]

me making yet another obscure, complicated pun in mando'a: ah yes i'm a writer

(it's funny because the New Mandalorians/Evaar’ade don't wear armor, which is a point of contention with other Mandalorians. The traditional Mando'a saying for when someone has an overinflated sense of authority is "all helmet, no head" but Jason is making the joke that the Evaar'ade representative is "all head, no helmet" or "big headed and no helmet")

[mouser26]

Vod'ade Wooley

And now I see their Way.

The Clones care for and wear their armor of plastoid. They paint it to represent their souls and their clans, their battalions.

The Clones speak a language they had to create, a mixture of Mando’a and Basic, because their dar’manda trainers did not teach them.

The Clones defend themselves and their siblings, their clan of the Grand Army of the Republic.

The Clones teach their younger siblings, showing the best ways to approach a battle and be a warrior, teaching siblings who age too quickly to be considered children.

The Clones share among themselves.  The clan of the Grand Army of the Republic barely have their basic needs covered. What little treats they do get, they share among batch mates and companies. New spices for food, a gift of fruit from the people they help, paint for their armor.  They contribute to the clan, when they have something to contribute.

The Clones follow their Alor . The Clones support their Jedi Generals, follow their orders, and protect the Republic.

In speaking with the Armorer, I have learned that the Clones are Manda blessed.  The Clones are Mandalorian.

There are the Haat’ade .

There are the Evaar’ade.

They are the Vod’ade.

Anyone who denies them the right to be Mandalorian are dar’manda, for they are my clan, family of my riduur.

This is the Way.

-Noble as the Oath We Undertake, Chapter 6 by SkybreakPrime

Honestly if this makes you curious go read the story. I learned about the clone wars and the clone JUST to read this.

October Art #4

[theawkwardvirgin]

I’ve been experimenting with the Mando’a names for the different factions of Mandalorians, since technically only Kyr’tsad has an official translation.

Haat’ade is pretty established fanon for True Mandalorians. I like that a lot and it makes sense, so we’re leaving that one alone.

For the New Mandalorians, I’ve seen “Evaar’Mando’ade” and “Evaar’la’Mando’ade”, which are both pretty direct translations. They’re clunky, though, so I considered cutting them to “Evaar’ade”. However,  it occured to me that the other Mandalorian factions (who use Mando’a a lot more than the New Mandalorians if I recall correctly) widely consider the New Mandalorians dar’manda, so would they really have their Mando’a name include “Mando’ade” or “’ade”? I don’t think so. So I decided to use the “tsad” suffix, which means “group/alliance/society” (also used by Kyr’tsad) to make Evaar'tsad.

Finally, the Old Mandalorians (those who were kicked off Mandalore by the New Mandalorians but instead of fighting back like Kyr’tsad or the Haat’ade, just left entirely and formed their own groups on other planets) is a pretty straight forward translation: Ruug’ade. “Ruug” means “old”, and they still uphold Mandalorian tradition, so I think they’d keep the “‘ade” suffix.

I decided to leave off the adjective suffix “la” in both “Evaar’tsad” and “Ruug’ade” because we do the same thing with “Haat’ade” and it makes them less clunky.

[itstimeforstarwars]

Six sentence Saturday! From the spectobi au:

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“Great,” Ben said. “I’m open to negotiations. I want my helmet, my lightsabers, my jetpack, and my weapons back.”

“No kriffing chance,” Sabine said.

“Then I have no information. I have learned nothing ever, in my life,” Ben said dryly.

“Listen here, you laanduryc Evaar’ad—” [delicate new mandalorian]

“Listen here, you besomyc Kyr’tsad or’di—” [ill-mannered Kyr’tsad foo—] Ben mocked.

“Enough,” Kanan snapped.

[ranahan]

Random headcanon:

New Mandalorians and Armour

Many New Mandalorians wear armour, actually. Not full beskar’gam, but armourweave clothing is very popular, near ubiquitous in some areas. As is wearing small items/jewellery/accessories of beskar—it’s spiritually significant, after all.

Tailoring invisibly armoured stylish clothing is a major industry in Kih’keldabe: there’s a huge market on Coruscant. Some of the companies also have branch stores on Naboo.

New Mandalorians (and scholars outside Mandalorian space) treat the armour vs. beskar’gam split as an ideological/religious difference in interpretation/doctrine.

The new interpretation of “any armour, not just beskar’gam” rose very soon after the Dral’Han. It wasn’t spurred on only by anti-war sentiment, but also the sudden and near-complete cessation in mining beskar. And even when the mining operations were resumed, for decades their output went entirely to infrastructure projects that were needed to rebuild the Mandalorian worlds and house the survivors. Historians sometimes call this “the Beskar Crisis” and the generation of Mandalorians that grew up during it “the generation without armour”. Even today, hundreds of years after Dral���Han, the rate of beskar production has never recovered to pre-Dral’Han levels.

[ranahan]

Random thought:

The pacifist movement on Mandalore is the peak of an iceberg of cultural change starting after the Mandalorian Wars. It might have been spurred on by the Mandalorian Excision, but it could also draw on a literal millennia-old tradition of cultural change and reinterpretation. And we can understand it also in the context of being a part of the same culture and tradition that millennia ago turned away from worshipping war as divine, reinterpreted the old gods as allegorical, and instead of having a race of overlords, reinterpreted their culture to have a basis in a shared soul instead of shared blood.

[ranahan]

That armoured clothing? Also very popular as a non-armoured option for the traditionalists and mandos working as body guards and covert ops, when they need to blend in with civilians on the job or just travelling off-world. They might sneer at it for not being real armour, but they happily wear it when it’s useful to them.

Also New Mandalorian food? Still spicy. They might have had to adapt various ingredients because their cities rely majorly on imports. But many popular dishes are direct adaptations of age-old campaign staples which also have to be made from ingredients that keep well and can be sourced from outside the Mandalorian space.

In the early days of the post-Dral’Han caretaker government, there was a quiet biological warfare fought, where the republic overseers were kept out of Mandalorian cantinas and social spaces by the power of spices. These days, attitudes have mellowed and the domed cities do rely on food imports. So it’s very much possible to find restaurants that can accommodate palates used to milder food—and in fact, outsiders may be served milder food automatically as a consideration. Maybe if you’re obviously an outsider you have to specifically order it spicy, and even then you will get dubious looks and “are you sure” and they’ll still tone down the spices. Just to be sure. So maybe it’s not that the food they eat is less spicy, but that they have a different attitude towards feeding the aruetiise.

@lesquatrechevrons You. You get me. New Mandalorians are so interesting to me. I want to put them under a microscope and ask how these dyed in the cloth warriors became pacifists. Yes I know Dral’Han, that’s the obvious explanation. But what about the nuance? Let them still be Mandalorians and pacifists. Let them be messy and complicated.

Let the lines between traditionalists and pacifists be blurred when they’re ordinary people and not the various figureheads of their movements. Stodgy traditionalists may shun anything New Mandalorian, but their clanspeople will steal away to compete in their sporting tournaments and buy their fancy clothing. Strict pacifists may frown on on anything martial, but their people will make remakes of the old epics, and “Art of War for Business” editions, and practice versions of the traditional martial arts, and run frequent fire drills because it’s aranov.

Random headcanons:

Lots of New Mandalorians wear armour and practice self-defence, actually. They might not wear full sets of beskar, but armour weave clothing is extremely popular, and so is wearing at least some beskar, even if it’s a piece of family jewellery instead of plate. It has spiritual significance okay? And if you want a finely tailored (and invisibly armoured) piece of clothing, a New Mandalorian city is your oyster. Many businesses have branch stores on Coruscant, that cater to politicians worried for their personal safety. Naboo also has several.

Martial arts are still extremely popular. The only reason they don’t surpass mesh’geroya in statistics is because there’s such an overwhelming number of different sports. Mandalorians don’t traditionally categorise martial arts as sports, but the New Mandalorians have turned a number of the traditional styles into sports with formalised rules and competitions. And because of this, the New Mandalorian cities actually have some of the largest number of tournaments around. Lots of traditionalist mandos go compete on the sly (it’s not against the rules obv, but some of their comrades get snotty about it).

Teraskasi (from the Han Solo movie) is originally a Kalevalan martial art. (Kalevala is the Finnish national epic & Teräskäsi means “steel hand/arm” in Finnish.) Apparently it does have an established origin, pooh. But want to bet that a martial art that was specifically developed to fight against the Jedi was brought to and studied in Mandalorian space?

There’s a “New Mandalorian” version of the bes’bev without the deadly stabbing tip; it’s called the naakla bes’bev. It’s still a 1-2 foot long piece of hardened steel pipe and can absolutely be used as a weapon. (And for this reason, they’re usually alto or tenor flutes.) They’re the preferred instruments of travelling musicians, because they’re easier to travel with offworld where there might be restrictions on carrying weapons in public avenues.