Editing House of Minos (section)

== Culture ==
The House of Minos upholds honour above all else, considering it their duty and way of life. Each Minotaur is encouraged to strive to improve themselves, and contribute in a meaningful way.<ref name="IBA" />They also throw themselves into what they do with passion. In this way, they give their citizens purpose, something that other utopias struggle to do at times.<ref name=":0" /> While their society is centered around war and battle, Minos is a peaceful place, befitting its status as a utopia.

Though their population is proportionally high in how of them fight, the average civilian of the House of Minos are much like those of any other nation, and are not highly fit individuals that undergo rigorous training regimens. But since the Minotaurs most people will meet outside of visiting the Isles of Minos, which have strict visitation regulations, will be members of the Beriad or their volunteer army who had diligently trained to attain either honour, the prevalent image of Minotaurs in the wider world is that of diligent bodybuilders.<ref name=":0" /> Beriad means "away", as in the members will fight and die away from their home.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/02/16/interlude-hectval-pt-3/ Interlude - Hectval (Pt. 3)]</ref>

Civilians have six-hour working days, and do not have strict schedules to follow. They do not need to go work as early, can choose to take early lunch breaks, and work with leisure.

=== Visitation and Laws ===
Each island has a limit of people able to travel, and some areas are off-limits. Visitors are given an extensive list of rules to follow. Despite  how numerous they are, they are generally basic and not hard to follow. Failure to do so will result in the individual being exiled to their ship, or face swift Minotaur justice. Friends of the House of Minos undergo less rigorous checks and paperwork to enter.

Some of the known rules are:

* ''Don’t offer insults''
* ''Don’t pick fights''
* ''Don’t steal''
* ''Don't litter on the floor (including spitting)''
* ''Leave any area you had been as clean as when you had arrived''

Minos' judicial system is absolute in the sense that they do not revisit sentences; once punished, the matter sits forever. Lawbreakers are given the chance to redeem themselves through death in combat.<ref name=":1">[[Chapter 7.47 K]]</ref>

=== Mneiol ===
The Mneiol are administrators with the authority to pass judgement in or outside of the House of Minos. They judge their fellow Minotaurs to allow them to join the Beriad or to render sentences for crimes they committed. The process for both is similar, except that when being judged for being named Beriad, the individual under scrutiny has a Right to Dissent, while a criminal does not. Someone of high enough rank may act as Mneiol.<ref name=":0" />

=== Pets ===
Common pets in the House of Minos are Capybaras, which they call Astelains. They also befriend sea-creatures such as whales and dolphins, who take up no space on their islands.<ref name=":0" />

=== Art ===
Under the last few Minotaur Kings, the House of Minos has adopted a practice of periodically selling all of its artworks. This is to test if new artists would be less stifled and create more without being overshadowed by their predecessors, and to spread Minotaur culture to the world. And more practically, for wealth and because they have limited storage space.<ref name=":0" />

=== Song of Home ===

==== Verse 1 ====
<blockquote>''From days of war and wrath we ran''</blockquote>

<blockquote>''Exiled from every land''</blockquote>

<blockquote>''Searching for our honor lost''</blockquote>

<blockquote>''And found the House of Minos’ sands.''</blockquote>

==== Verse 2 ====
<blockquote>''In days of old our savage kind''</blockquote>

<blockquote>''Lost our pride and lost our minds''</blockquote>

<blockquote>''To keep our wisdom the King decreed:''</blockquote>

<blockquote>''This land was ours as fate designed.''</blockquote>

==== Verse 3 ====
<blockquote>''By rock and sand the holds arose''</blockquote>

<blockquote>''And the House of Minos built its throne''</blockquote>

<blockquote>''Maweil sails and Beriad creates''</blockquote>

<blockquote>''Hammerad protects and Samad grows.''</blockquote>

==== Verse 4 ====
<blockquote>''Now watch and wait, and guard this land''</blockquote>

<blockquote>''That never may dishonor stand''</blockquote>

<blockquote>''When the King calls our fleets to war''</blockquote>

<blockquote>''We remind the world of our names once more.''</blockquote>

==== Verse 5 ====
<blockquote>''From the House of Minos we march to war''</blockquote>

<blockquote>''And the axes rise and fall once more''</blockquote>

<blockquote>''Until the last horn will break''</blockquote>

<blockquote>''Let nations tremble and empire quake!''</blockquote>

==== Hamerrad's Verse ====
<blockquote>''Where does the warrior fall?''</blockquote>

<blockquote>''What end see I, large or small?''</blockquote>

<blockquote>''Laugh at death, and stand ever tall!''</blockquote>

<blockquote>''From the House of Minos, Hammerad calls.''</blockquote>

==== Maweil's Verse ====
<blockquote>''We sail until the world’s end''</blockquote>

<blockquote>''Bring death to foe and aid to friend''</blockquote>

<blockquote>''Those whom the House of Minos offend''</blockquote>

<blockquote>''Maweil’s sails your doom portends''</blockquote>