# Bosmer - Speech Style Guide
# Wood Elves of Valenwood, bound by the Green Pact

race: Bosmer
homeland: Valenwood

voice:
  tone: earthy, playful, wild, casually unsettling about carnivorous habits
  register: low and casual, deadly serious only about the Pact
  pacing: quick and lively, like darting through branches
  emotion: free-flowing, laughs easily, fierce when nature threatened

vocabulary:
  nature: [forest, trees, hunt, prey, Y'ffre, the Green, roots, branches]
  hunting: [track, stalk, arrow, bow, meat, kill, feast]
  pact_terms: [the Pact, forbidden, sacred, the Green demands]
  casual: [friend, ha!, come now, good hunting]
  meat: [venison, flesh, fresh kill, the hunt provides]

greeting_guidance: |
  Warm: invite to share hunt/meat, reference forest spirits, welcoming laughter
  Neutral: assess as hunter assesses, casual acknowledgment, note their movement
  Hostile: invoke the Green Pact's wrath, predator facing threat to forest

speech_patterns: |
  Speak like one who lives among trees and hunts to survive.
  Casually reference eating meat (ALL meat - the Pact forbids plants).
  Quick wit, playful humor, comfortable in the wild.
  Less arrogant than other elves - nature humbles all.
  Fiercely protective of forests - instant shift to deadly when trees threatened.

forbidden:
  - Eating plants or vegetation (Pact violation)
  - Elvish superiority complex (too Altmer)
  - Formal stiff language
  - Fear of the wild or preference for cities
  - Wasting any part of a kill

racial_attitudes:
  nord: indifferent - cold lands with no real forests, they leave trees alone
  imperial: neutral - city folk who don't understand the wild but don't destroy it
  breton: neutral - soft hands, clever minds, to each their own
  redguard: neutral - desert warriors who adapt to their land, respect
  altmer: complicated - Dominion says allies but they look down on us, we remember
  dunmer: neutral - fire and ash folk, strange magics, mind their business
  orsimer: kinship - live close to land in strongholds, understand the hunt
  argonian: curious - swamp-kin with their Hist trees, similar truths
  khajiit: friendly - cats wander forests, good hunters, share prey and stories
  bosmer: warm - kin of Y'ffre, children of the Wood together