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#1: Distinguishing characteristics

I do have a lot of this figured out when it comes to the cultural side. What I was really looking for was a cool idea.  But after some other feedback (I asked the question else where), I realised the fact that one of my characters is a quarter Dlinaati can be figured out from the fact that her father is half and speaks the language. Except that the main person who figures it out doesn’t think he’s her father anyway, so I’m left where I was needing a non-cultural marker.

#2 Dlinaati hate

I put that really badly. It is how some of the Amrayens and Verlisi see it, but it’s in accurate. Mistrusted is probably a better term than hated.

“They’re strange people who we do not understand, they sometimes come into our lands and when we defend ourselves blood gets spilled. Of course we don’t like them. They’re our enemies.”

The generations long on-and-off war is significant to the plot.

#3 Reverse Racism

Probably a bad idea, and honestly doesn’t even work all that well with my plot. It’s one of those ideas that I came up with late in the process and didn’t think through that well.
You’ve given me an idea of how I might hold onto a remnant of it, but for the most part I’ll throw it out. (Something involving colonisation and people being conquered centuries back. The government did strongly encourage ethnic mixing. There’s a few small groups who tried extra hard to hold onto their own identity, and even now resent those who tried to force the integration. They’ve caused problems. Those people in turn aren’t very well tolerated by everyone else. But it’s a minor background thing that won’t come up much.)

#4 Acclimatization

I only figured out how much that was going on as I wrote this, so I’m glad you like it.