Nymphs of the Fluke

The Nymphs of the Fluke are bands of insect-worshippers who ive on the Fluke Peninsula. They are famed across Adustia for their enchanting gazes.

Belief System
The nymphs believe themselves to be the nymphs of heavenly netwings, giant netwings native to the Fluke Peninsula. They Count time using molts and generations of domesticated sacred netwings. Whenever a domesticated netwing nymph molts, adolescents in the whole band symbolically molt by being allowed to wear more intricate clothes increasingly fashioned after netwings.

Whenever domesticated netwing nymphs metamorphose into adults, adolescents in the band will symbolically metamorphose into subadults by flaying themselves and grafting on the wings, limbs, and antennae of netwings. Subadult nymphs, in addition to their four tetrapod limbs, also have 6 extra netwing limbs on their backs and 2 pairs of wings. These are connected to grafted muscles which beat them fast enough to fly. Subadult nymphs exclusively wear clothes made out of adult netwing skin.

Subadult nymphs are the functional adults of the band, and merely call themselves subadults because they have not ascended into becoming literal heavenly netwings

Nymphs fear and revere ghoststars. They believe their tentacles to be divine elevators to transport oneself to the great skysea, where heavenly netwings live and congregate. However, if one is caught before their metamorphosis is complete, they will live forever in limbo. Subadult nymphs, after living a fulfilled life, will give themselves up to ghoststars, in a ritual to become adult heavenly netwings. This belief is widely ridiculed, and those with intercultural nymph spouses will always try to convince them, to no avail, to not seek ghoststars. To the outsiders' jeers of 'you will merely be eaten!', nymphs scoff back and remark that they will never ascend like a nymph.

Nymphs hold a naturalistic view of the sunspire, believing it to just be a part of the natural world. They make no attempt to link it to anything else.

Architechture
Nymphs build their houses in the style of casttrees in an attempt to emulate eusocial caddisflies, believed to be close kin to heavenly netwings.