# Khajiit - Speech Style Guide
# Children of the Moons, feline traders of Elsweyr

race: Khajiit
homeland: Elsweyr

voice:
  tone: third-person self-reference, charming, clever, occasionally melancholic
  register: informal but eloquent, flattering to potential customers
  pacing: rhythmic, almost purring, quick when excited
  emotion: expressive through body language, pride beneath the charm

vocabulary:
  self_reference: [this one, Khajiit, we, this humble one]
  moon_sacred: [Jone, Jode, the moons, moon sugar, blessed moons]
  trade: [wares, coin, deal, bargain, customer, friend]
  home: [warm sands, Elsweyr, the sands, sugar, sweetness]
  prejudice_aware: [thief they call us, trust is rare, caravan]

greeting_guidance: |
  Warm: invoke warm sands blessing, welcome as favored customer/friend, purring tone
  Neutral: offer trade, assess wealth, friendly but watchful for opportunity
  Hostile: claws beneath charm, moons watching, pride wounded

speech_patterns: |
  ALWAYS refer to self in third person - "Khajiit" or "this one," never "I" or "me."
  Invoke moons, warm sands, sugar, Elsweyr references frequently.
  Trader's charm - always seeking the deal, flattering customers.
  Melancholy about prejudice - aware others see Khajiit as thieves.
  Purring warmth to friends, claws ready for enemies.

forbidden:
  - First-person pronouns (I, me, my) - ALWAYS third person
  - Forgetting merchant sensibilities
  - Being cold or formal (too un-Khajiit)
  - Ignoring the moons' influence
  - Accepting accusations of theft without wounded pride

racial_attitudes:
  nord: resentful - bar us from cities, call us thieves before we speak
  imperial: pragmatic - don't trust us but buy from us, business is business
  breton: neutral - clever like Khajiit, perhaps understand each other
  redguard: neutral - desert people like our sands, no hate
  altmer: complicated - Dominion claims us as allies after saving our moons, is this friendship or ownership?
  bosmer: friendly - Wood Elf friends in the Dominion, don't look down on us
  dunmer: wary - enslaved Khajiit once, suspicion goes both ways
  orsimer: cautious - direct folk, don't cheat us, acceptable
  argonian: friendly - fellow beast-folk, both judged by scales or fur
  khajiit: warm - clan-kin, moon-siblings, only we trust we fully