#resol’nare

[psyzook]

Okay so like- I’ve been wondering for awhile why nobody has tried to make being a Mandalorian a real life thing? Like how some Star Trek fans speak Klingon, and some Tolkien fans speak elvish?

Why haven’t people, I don’t know, just adopt the Mandalorian culture into their lives? Because i find the principles of Mandalorians are things that make sense and can get behind?

The Resol'nare consists of:

wearing armor,

speaking the language (mando’a),

defending oneself and family,

raising your children as Mandalorians (or at least with their morals and values),

contributing to the clan's welfare (can be adapted to family and friends),

and when called upon by the Mand'alor, rallying to their cause (can be adapted to rallying behind an idea, political view, protesting together, or the like. Just being a unit together?)

There are also more parts to being a Mandalorian that can be found on the web (like morals, values, and ideals). Why do people not just adopt the Mandalorian culture into their lives if they so choose? The culture seems respectable, and we can tweak parts of it to fit into this age and galaxy’s way of life.

If anyone knows where to find the Mandalorian Realism discord servers, please message me!

#mandalore #mandalorian meta #mandalorian #mandalorians #mandalorian culture #true mandalorians #mand’alor #resolnare #resol’nare #the mandolarian #mando’a #mandalorian language #the mandolorian #mando #star wars #star wars meta #star wars languages #star wars cultures #star wars fandom #star wars mandalorian #haat'mando'ade #haat mando’ade #keldabe

[the-blind-assassin-12]

What story are you most excited to continue writing for?

Enjoy your wine 😋

Hi Anon! Thanks for popping in! I hope you’re having a great weekend. If you celebrate any of the spring holidays, I hope they’ve been enjoyable for you!

Also idk if you’re familiar with manischewitz but it’s less “wine” and more “liquid grape jelly that gets you toasted” 😅 but I did enjoy it very much so thank you.

To answer your question, I think the story I’m most excited to continue writing - aside from Aphelion - is Survivor Blues. I feel like most of the first few chapters of that have been set up and backstory, and I’m excited to get to the meatier parts (because they’re meteorrrrrrr) of the story. There is a scene in part six that I’ve had written for about a year (!!!) which I have been very excited to finally include, and I’m looking forward to writing more of Joel and Reader getting to know one another. The spring and summer months of this story are going to be fun (for the most part) and I’m very ready to get these characters out of their winter coats and thick sweaters.

I’ve also been thinking about Ezra & Din A LOT lately, and I recently found some snippets of things I’d written for both of them that have sparked some things, so don’t be surprised if the spacemen show up soon!

If there’s anything else you are hoping to see soon, let me know! Thanks again for sending this, anon! You rock! 🤘🏻

#thanks anon! #anon asks #ask me about my wips #survivor blues part 6 : local joint #aphelion part 10 #co written with rachael #ponr: petrichor #angelfish #oracle #Resol’nare #joel miller fic #oberyn martell fic #ezra (propect) fic #din djarin fic

[average-transdalorian]

Okay one more thing before I go to bed

The lack of “Samus Aran Becomes A Mandalorian” fics I have seen is a travesty

Like. First of all, the parallels between Samus experiences + Chozo culture and Mandalorian culture in general are. Very present. Samus is an orphan who was brought up by a warrior people and given a set of armor that is both better than most other armor you’ll find and spiritually significant (at least, from what I could gather), and taught how to fight to a BREATHTAKINGLY competent degree in part so she could get revenge for her slaughtered maan’aliit (original/birth family).

Add onto that what it takes to be Mandalorian: following the Resol’nare

Bajur (education): Samus has been shown to learn a LOT of different information throughout the Metroid series. From scanning shit to watching and mimicking wildlife to just being an information sponge, Samus Aran is always willing to learn. We don’t know if she’d be willing to teach a protege yet, but given how she acts about the baby Metroid (specifically in the remake of Samus Returns and in Super Metroid, I am trying to not learn more about Other M than I already know), it wouldn’t be unreasonable to assume that she would be willing to teach a protege.

Beskar’gam (armor): Samus’ power suit looks more similar to modern beskar’gam than some ancient sets do. Like. Some sets don’t even have a t-visor, which she *does*. She also has some variation of most Mando’ad armor technology in her power suit at some point, and like I said before, it reads to me as spiritually significant. All it’s missing is a check by a Goran to make sure it’s still in good shape and counts as beskar’gam

Aliit (family/clan): she’s gotten vengeance for her maan’aliit AND killed her dar’buir (no-longer-parent, which I most certainly class Raven Beak as), who was implied to have killed her Chozo aliit. She seems to be a clan of one now, but signs certainly point towards her taking care of her aliit when she has one

Aranov (self-defense): she is Samus fucking Aran, I do not need to elaborate

Mando’a (language): not applicable, she hasn’t had a chance to learn it

Mand’alor (leader): she’s willing to both follow and question orders, iirc. We don’t see her having a sole leader (Other M isn’t real and can’t hurt me), but I don’t think she would find following a Mand’alor to be too objectionable

TLDR: some author(s) send Samus to the GFFA and make her Mandalorian pretty please

#Metroid #mandalorians #Mandalorian culture #the Resol’nare #grahhhhh me when sci-fi #your honor she has mandokar in spades #plop her down on Korda VI and let her obliterate Montross so Jaster can survive pretty pretty pretty please #she’s so badass too #and trans. obviously

[beanutbutterbisquick]

I think that Bo Katan is glad to be the one who “walks both ways” because she feels like she can finally do some good for her people. The others were actually okay with her helmet being off and didn’t once question the Armorer. My problem is, why didn’t they question the Armorer? Where in the world does it state that if you see a Mythosaur you “walk both ways?” Where in the world does it say there are two ways to walk? I simply believe that all along Bo Katan knew the real truth to being Mandalorian. I believe that it truly is a people, not a race, and not exactly a Creed, but a people. Individuals who came together under the Resol’nare and decided to form a people. That idea of supporting one another is so important to me because we see that clearly the Creed of the Watch is flawed. Bo Katan (and Din) were redeem by means of bathing in the Living Waters. Yet, we have the Armorer telling her to remove her helmet? And she didn’t get kicked out? She saw a Mythosaur which hell I get is a big thing, but aren’t foundlings just as sacred to the clan? Even the Armorer said so when she saved Ragnar. So how is it that Din Djarin saying goodbye to Grogu who literally WAS a foundling, and was his foundling, was kicked out and shunned? Called an apostate? Nearly died to be part of something that he believed to be so true? And yet all Bo had to do was see a Mythosaur?? And the Armorer decided that removal of her helmet, which is literally so forbidden Din was also about to die a FIRST time in s2 (IG-11 scene), was okay for Bo to do? What kind of leadership and standing does the Armorer have that she can idk, pull these sort of exceptions out of her ass like this? I don’t understand. It doesn’t feel sacred or religious it just feels confusing. I don’t feel that there is any justification for it. Genuinely. I may be wrong, and I may be seeing this as something it isn’t so I’m open to hearing interpretations but my mind is genuinely confused. Even Bo Katan was confused when the Armorer was commanding her to take her helmet off.

Also, let’s note that the Armorer has always stated that their way is the True Way. Hence Din feeling the need to die (literally got attacked by that mech eyeball and then nearly drowned!!) to become redeemed. While Bo Katan has always identified as a Mandalorian and not because she follows the Creed or the Resol’nare to the T but that was her home, Mandalore was her home, her planet, and she had always seen each and everyone one of the people on that planet as a Mandalorian. She had simply felt that her sisters pacifist beliefs took away from their warrior heritage. (It’s a mess, okay, yes, Bo Katans previous lifestyle and manner of handling her beliefs were very messy I am aware) but she never once looked at Din and thought he was an imposter. But when she had removed her helmet, Din was immediately like, give me that armor, because he didn’t believe that she was a real Mandalorian simply because she had removed her helmet. That’s how deep his beliefs were. That’s how deep they had been when he encountered Cobb. And now after all this the helmet removal is okay???

Like I said. Im open to others opinions. Literally. But please don’t come at me with anger. Im not angry about anything I’m simply confused.

#I don’t wanna see everyone starting a war in my comments or tags #this is a discussion #i’m open to suggestions #I’m open to anything #but I’m just stating what I believe to be like #abuse of the power the armorer has or #even if we wanna go by the Resol’nare #blasphemy maybe? #I have no idea #the mandalorian #din djarin #bo katan kryze #theories #this is my opinion #don’t come for me

[mock-arts]

Bonus for @popjeckdoom’s fic “Bonds of Beskar”, for the @swbigbang

This is just Cody, separated out from the cover, since he came out really handsome lol

Bonus bonus: the stained glass window that pretty much got covered up. The stained glass has the resol’nare in :)

#swbb2023 #commander cody #emperor cody #star wars clone wars #mandalorian empire au #big bang #Star Wars #process #kind of

[fearmypaintbrush]

Sometimes my brain reminds me that, out of all the mandos who tried to put to words what it means to be a mando, you have the original resol’nare aka the 6 actions, which inspired the canons of honor, which in turn was inspiration for Tor Vizla’s Kyr’tsad (Death Watch) Manifesto, and Jaster Mereel’s Ori’ramikade (Supercommando) Codex.

And I think about the LENGTH differences between a single phrase of six core values, a group of canons, a manifesto and a codex. Like, I can’t stress enough that the reason we don’t have a canon Supercommando codex is because a codex is an entire book, a compilation of rules, lists, values, and priorities grouped together, organized, and put into book form.

And I think of the man who, upon seeing corruption right in front of him in the system he was apart of, his first response is to kill the superior officer who was apart of that corruption. Then when he’s been kicked out for killing a superior, and he sees that the corruption and injustice and dishonesty spread far beyond the Journeyman Protectors of Concord Dawn, that its everywhere in the galaxy, his response then is to write a fucking book.

#and here I wonder why people compare me to jaster smh #kill first write book second #very mando of him honestly #mandalorians #star wars #mandalorian culture #jaster mereel #tor vizsla #haat’mando’ade #true mandalorians #supercommando codex

[anxiousotters]

Last Name: Kenobi sounds amazing! Are the married clones following Mandalorian marriage vows? One of my favorite headcannons is that the reason marriage is not allowed among the order is because of the way wedding vows have you put your duty to your spouse above all other duties. The Jedi can’t do that without breaking their oaths… but since Mandalorian vows already take into account a higher level of duty (usually to the Resol’nare, but it could work for the Force too), they could potentially work out!

Do Obi-Wan and Cody get fake/real Mando-married while still pining to belatedly validate the paperwork Cody already filled out? Or do they wait until after feelings have been disclosed?

Ask about my WIPs

That’s so kind of you to say and thank you sm for the ask!! Last Name: Kenobi keeps dodging my every attempt to write it, but it can’t run from me forever (Ricky when I catch you Ricky…)

As for your question, yes! I love riduurok, and as of right now those will be the vows used in the fic. In all honesty I don’t know as much about Jedi culture as I’d like, but my understanding is that marriage isn’t outright forbidden, it’s a Jedi’s personal decision/ an assessment of their ability to keep a relationship within the bounds of love (and not fall into possessive, controlling attachment). I don’t think Cody and Obi-Wan have an issue putting duty before love or letting go when the time comes, but yes, the riduurok provides some flexibility with that

Now, do they talk about their feelings? Does that lead to the exchanging of vows? Or does Cody get into legal trouble and he and Obi-Wan have to get fake married in order to keep him out of jail for tax fraud?

We’ll just have to wait and see 👀

#codywan #commander cody #obi wan kenobi #wip ask game #otter’s fics

[constantlymisspelled]

3 - Adoption Law as it currently stands

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i) The Legal Definition of Foundling;

a) A foundling by definition is a child or young person who’s either cannot be located, are not safe to return to, are deceased, have lost parental rights, or is otherwise an orphan. b) A foundling can only be adopted when all possible kin are declared unfit or show no interest in raising said child. c) If another member of the child’s family claims to be acting as guardian, but does not meet Galactic or Mandalorian Parent Guardian Standards, the Child will be available for adoption.

ii) Foundling Procedure;

a) When a Foundling is discovered, they are to be taken first to the Clan Armourer to ascertain their fit with the clan. b) If a Foundling has been found by a Mandalorian who is unable to legally act as a parent, they can place the Foundling in Clan Care. c) After the Goran has seen to the child, they are to go through appropriate medical and legal clearance in order to create a medical profile and procure the best form of education for the child in question.

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iii) Disownment of Parent;

a) A child – adopted, biological, or otherwise – can disown a parent at any age. b) Disowning a parent requires witness from either a Goran, a Journeyman Protector, or a Clan Alor of relevant standing. c) Disowning a parent can be for a variety of reasons, such as abuse, negligence, the parent being declared Dar’manda, or for differences in views and values. For example, if the parent attempts to force the child into a marriage, into a specific political leaning or agenda, or to lay down their armour, arms or give up their religion. d) Disownment of a parent cannot occur due to criminal action on behalf of the child. For example, a child can not steal from a dependent member of their clan, and disown their parent to escape criminal responsibility.

iv) Community Adoption;

a) In the case of a foundling or adoptee who cannot accept a parent for psychological reasons, or refuses to accept new parents upon the deceased, or lost previous parents, a communal adoption can be made. b) Communal adoptions can include

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v) Adoption regarding criminal activities

a) In the event of a parent being under arrest, or having been charged and incarcerated. b) In the event of a child who has previously been convicted of a crime c) In the event of a parent have been previously incarcerated, charged, or suspected of a crime.

vi) Adoption regarding marital conditions;

a) Adoption of a partner’s children can be confirmed before a marriage is settled upon. b) When a married Mandalorian wishes to adopt a child, their partners, as long as there is no Separation filed, will be automatically upgraded to at least guardianship status. c) Children from previous marriages, if the Mando’ade in question is adopting more, will be considered equally as much the Mando’ade’s children. d) Marrying a non-Mandalorian who has children can automatically qualify their children for a full Mandalorian education, regardless of whether or not their parent swears the resol’nare.

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vii) Adoption Consent;

a) If the child is over the standard age of thirteen, or verdgoten equivalent of their species, a verbal, written, or recorded consent must be filed for their adoption to be recognised. In the case of illiterate, non-verbal, or non-seeing Mando’ade, a Goran can be contacted to make the official note of the adoption, and becomes signatory for both parties. This Goran then must be contacted if the child decides to disown a parent, or acknowledge another parent. If the Goran in question is deceased, or declared Dar’manda, another Goran, or even a Journeyman Protector can be used in clause. b) A child cannot be re-adopted by a disowned parent once that parent has been declared as disowned. c) A child must be awake at the time of adoption, even for those below the age of consent, and must not be under the effects of mind-altering substances, reactionary drugs, or Force Related Suppressants.

[As always, any thoughts, comments or criticism is welcome. As you know, this is the draft!!]

[Back to main Codex]

#mandalorian culture #true mandalorians #jaster mereel #mandalorians #mandalorian law #haat mando’ade #haat'mando'ade #Jaster Mereel's 70k long legal document that changed the galaxy #supercommando codex #mandalorian code #mandalorian language #mandalorian lore #mandalorian adoption

[furious-blueberry0]

Mandalorian Government (All Is Well AU)

Finally managed to make some sense of this old post and change some things, so here is how Mandalore works in my AU!

Enjoy:

First of all, the citizens: 

To be considered a citizen of age, and so have the right to vote, it depends on when and how you became a Mandalorian:

If you are born mandalorian in a mandalorian family, or have been adopted as a child, all you have to do is complete the Verd’goten and continue following the Resol’nare.

If you became a mandalorian as an adult or over the age for the Verd’goten, you have to follow the Resol’nare, and you’ll get the right to vote after being a mandalorian for 5 years.

When you reach the age of 60, you can still vote, but you cannot run for any kind of political office.

There are three main bodies in this government:

The Assembly

The Council

The Governors

The Assembly is formed by 30 elements, and with the two Governors they are 32.

To be elected as a member you have to be a citizen of age, so the standard mandalorian citizen can be elected if they're at least 13 years old (since that’s the age of the Verd’goten), but not if they’re over 60. It’s rare to see mandalorians under the age of 18 actually be elected, but some actually managed it.

Obviously the non-human species that have different life spans will have different rules, with their years equating to the human ones. 

Each of the nine planets of the Mandalorian System runs elections to choose three mandalorians to represent the planet in the Assembly.

Not only the citizens of the planets can run for elections, but also those who live on their moons, which is a bit tricky for the planets of Bonagal and Shukut, who have 34 and 30 moons, but they seem to manage just fine.

Only one member per Clan can run for election, and more often than not, they are elected based more on the power of their names than their actual worth as a candidate. 

But this doesn’t preclude the way to those who come from less known Clans, who are sometimes even preferred by the citizens, because they are considered more part of the people, and not spoiled kids of powerful families.

This way we have 27 members elected. 

The other 3 are chosen by the Assembly, and are the representatives of the Three Houses: House Vizsla, House Kast and House Kryze.

This was a rule made  to avoid internal conflicts, so that the Houses could not complain about losing power or not being represented in the government. They have the same power as the other members of the Assembly, no more, no less.

For each member their tenure lasts 20 years, with the exception, for example, that if a member is elected when they’re 50 then their tenure will only last 10 years, if elected at 45 it will only last 15 years and so on.

They can decide to withdraw from their position, but only after 5 years of service. 

Their position can be taken away with a Vote-of-No-Confidence, who can be called by any individual that brings enough evidence to show their reasoning about the vote.

If any of this happens, their planet is given three months to redo a new election for a new member, if this is not done then the Assembly can choose a new member on their own.

The Council doesn’t have actual political power, their position is more honorary than anything else, they are there to give advice and suggestions to the Assembly and the Governors, but their voice has no power in the actual decision making.

It’s made up of 6 elders, elected by the Assembly, with tenure for life, and to be part of it you need to be at least 60 years old.

Most of the time they are former members of the Assembly, who cannot be re-elected there, and so they are given this position. There have been cases in which some of those elected never held political tenure, but they are rare.

They too can lose their position, but this can be decided only by a Vote-of-No-Confidence made and voted by the Assembly.

The citizens have no say on the Council, since they have no power and are only used as advice givers.

The Governors are the heads of state of the Mandalorian System.

They are chosen with an election done across all the planets of the system, and are voted by only the citizens of age.

To run for the election they need to be at least 20 years old, and anyone from any Clan or House can do so.

Their tenure lasts ten years, and the decade of the Mandalorian calendar in which they governed has the name of the two Governors (for example: the decade of Satine and Arla is called “The Years of Fett and Kryze”)

When one becomes a Governor, they have to wear a purple cloak, to signify their status as head of state, and distinguish them from the rest of the Assembly.

They too can have their power taken by a Vote-of-No-Confidence, that can be called by any individual that brings enough evidence to show their reasoning about the vote, but this happens only if at least 25 members of the Assembly vote against the Governor.

No, challenging one of the Governors to a duel to the death will not give you their position of power, but it will give you the chance to get your ass beaten and obliterated by all the 30 members of the Assembly for even suggesting such a stupid idea.

extra random info:

Mandalore is not part of the Republic, but the System decided to at least maintain a good relationship between the two, and every ten years, they invite emissaries of the Republic to the Celebration of the election of the new Governors. 

More often than not the emissaries they send are Jedi, as if the Republic was testing them to see if they cared more about their current peace, or the war of the past. But for now no mandalorian ever attacked verbally or physically any of the Jedi sent there, or at least, none of the Jedi ever said anything about it in their reports, so who knows.

#ok now this mess makes a little more sense #or at least it does to me #don't ask what kind of power the governors or the assembly has #because I have no idea #I kind of used both the spartan government #and the roman consuls to create this structure #and I also kept a element of absurdity by keeping the 13 years of age as the adult age for mandos #or at least that's what I read from the wiki #can you imagine in the assembly a 56 year old having a screaming match with a 15 years old over a law about jetpack fuel? #that's kinda funny #but I mean #they're mandos they had far worse ideas than this one #star wars #all is well au #mandalorians #mandalore

[psyzook]

brb, I’m currently obsessed with Jaster Mereel. Like- he is so fucking pure. I mean, he’s a DILF, a nerd, and sort of awkward?!? 😫 bitch, everyone wants a piece of him

#jaster mereel #mand’alor mereel #mand’alor the uniter #jango fett’s dad #jango’s dad #star wars fandom #true mandalorians #supercommando codex #resol’nare #resolnare #mandalorian excision #nerd jaster mereel #dilf jaster mereel #korda six #korda 6

[findmeabowloftrash-blog]

OKAY NOW I’M CURIOUS

In an all out fight, personal feelings about fighting aside, who would win: An Undertale skeleton (Sans/Papyrus/Gaster) or a human Mandalorian (without a jetpack)?

(not THE Mandalorian, just a random one. Presumably one who actually lives by the Resol’nare and not Death Watch’s take on it. A classic Mando, pre-Empire)

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION:

in favor of skeletons:

Actual Magic That Can Canonically Pass Through Objects (cyan magic) might legitimately beat beskar, especially since cyan magic requires you to hold still or else take damage (don’t discount this, it’s a valid point)

Even if not, beskar is great but there are often open spots that could be impaled with magical bones

Magic bones/bullets are presumably summoned, they don’t have the travel time of a blaster bolt/other airborne thing (so they’re harder to dodge and can come from any direction)

Gaster blasters that just?? Incinerate you??? Beskar still gets hot. (Though that does beg the question of whether the blast is heat or just. magical destructive energy.)

Has no internal organs to hit; might be able to come apart to some degree with minumal negative repercussions

Can break the rules of combat/the universe, could take advantage of a Mandalorian’s strict morals about an honorable fight

For it to be an all-out fight, you’d have to REALLY push the skeleton, so there’d be some desperation. For the Mandalorian it’s just a Tuesday.

No SAVE or magic healing items, so the Mando can’t just memorize their bullet patterns and try again after dying or heal mid-battle

in favor of Mandalorians:

Armor, obviously. Especially helmet.

Lifelong combat training, fights often

Gravity magic might not be a big deal since they knowing how to fight Force wielders (though usually it’s Jedi, who, tbf, don’t usually throw their opponents around with their powers)

Humans are just. Straight up more powerful than monsters in UT lore

Probably has killed people so fairly high EXP (though not necessarily LV, that depends more on their mindset)

Don’t need to be genre-savvy when you have 500 hidden weapons

Reblog for sample size, I really want to see people’s takes. Feel free to explain your choice in the tags or replies!

#star wars #undertale #seeker talks #poll #this is so silly but I really wanna see what people think #NOOOOOOO I FORGOT TO MAKE IT A WEEK LONG AUGH #PLEASE REBLOG IIIIIT

[ranahan]

Mandalorian soul(s) & Mando’a words for them

So have you noticed how Mando’a has three different words for a soul or a spirit: manda, kar’am, and runi?

Warnings for lots of speculation and headcanons about Mandalorian religion and spirituality.

What is a soul?

First of all, I want to note that cultures around the world have very different ideas of what the soul is. The Christian idea of an immortal soul that goes to heaven after the body dies is hardly the only or even the most prevalent one. Many cultures believe there are many different kinds of souls and that humans have more than one soul.

I was going to draw examples from earthly cultures and religions, but I just put about 50 posts in my drafts folder and I want to publish this before it disappears in that black hole where no information escapes from. Suffice it to say that people have really different takes on what a soul is. Seriously, look up some examples. Blow your mind a bit.

GFFA of course also has the Force, so who knows what kinds of Force traditions Mandalorians have if any, and how those would affect their views of souls and spirituality. I recently reblogged Izzy’s interesting headcanons about Mandalorians and the Force, if anyone is in need of inspiration.

*maan- ‘original’ & Manda

In the canon dictionary, this root on its own is an adjective:

maan (adj): original, first

That’s “original, first” in the sense of “genuine, true” and given the derivations, the root *maan- at least probably also carries the meaning of “inherent, intrinsic, innate”.

*maan- also appears in words like:

veman (adj): real, genuine

Probably from *vut- ‘special’ + maan. “Really original”.

ramaan (n): death (a neutral term)

Probably from *ram- ‘attack’ + maan, “the original attack(er)” or ram + an, “one who attacks all”. Could be either. I’m more partial to the latter etymology, but I’m putting ramaan here just in case.

I believe that the element *mand- that appears in lots of words like mando, manda, and their derivations, is etymologically maan-ad, which has lost an unstressed vowel. This carries the meaning of ‘first person, original person’ or as a plural, “first/original people” which is actually what a number of earthly peoples call themselves. Like that’s a very, very common etymology for the name of your own tribe.

So I reconstruct *maanad (or the same with a short vowel, *manad) as an archaic word with the meaning of “a mandalorian”. I also reconstruct it with a second meaning of “true self, innate self, inner self”, or a soul in that sense. So then…

manda (n): collective soul

…could be an archaic plural of manad-a, with a lost syllable in the middle which is a really common pattern in Mando’a. Mando’a uses plural as a way to form collective concepts, so this is “all Mandalorian souls”.

So when you have gai bal manda, “name and soul”, or kir’manir ‘to adopt, give a soul to someone’, the soul here is specifically the Mandalorian soul, a partaking of the shared identity.

Kir’manir could also be glossed as “to give an origin”, which in Mandalorian terms is exactly what you are doing when you adopt someone: you take them in as a part of your clan. For Mandalorians who don’t care about bloodlines, this is just as legitimate a tie as being born into a clan: in both cases, you become a part of the shared ancestry and heritage.

This is a headcanon, but the picture I get of Mandalorians is that anyone can be a Mandalorian (if you have mandokar, literally “Mandalorian heart”)—but no one can be a Mandalorian without a clan (it’s in the Resol’nare & and in words like kir’manir). You need to get adopted in order to convert and become a Mandalorian. You need to have a clan to hold up the basic tenets of being a mando’ad. You need to be adopted in order to share in the web of souls that make up the manda. This is a really interesting dichotomy. It makes Mandalorians kind of into an ethnic religion like Judaism, only you don’t need to be born as a Mandalorian, only be adopted as one.

In fact, I think that adopting your biological children is really common if not the norm. If you view the gai bal manda in the light of giving the child a soul and a tie-in to the manda, then gai bal manda is to Mandalorians what baptism is to Christians. You can’t go to the Christian heaven without a baptism, and you can’t reach the manda without gai bal manda. I imagine this is where the fanon of adopting dead children so they don’t have to wander eternally comes from (someone hit me with a name; who came up with that? I love it!).

But also! Mandalorians in general are not depicted as very religious. So I guess this is one belief, but it is probably not shared universally and perhaps not even widely. Maybe it’s an old belief, developed in the aftermath of the Mandalorian Wars, when the tie of the non-Taung to their adopted ancestors was still tenuous, and while they were moving away from the worship of the old gods, religious beliefs of all kinds were still rampant. And in the upheaval before they settled on a new canon, all kinds of beliefs and split-off religious sects sprung up left and right.

kar’am

kar’am (n): breath

Okay, not soul. But I believe this is “breath” in the sense of “spirit” (breath and spirit are connected words in many many many languages). Not breath in the sense of “to breathe” as in the bodily function (that’s haal).

So what kind of a spirit is this? Well, it’s made of two roots: *kar- ‘heart, core’ and *am- ‘change’. Heart for mandalorians is also the seat of knowledge and by extension, consciousness. Change is a loaded concept spiritually.

But the interpretation I want to go with is that change is also considered the true nature of the reality and natural world, and is thus connected to a lot of words that relate to nature and reality. The Aay’han dictionary has aman (n): nature, lit. “one who changes all” and I absolutely adore that. So kar’am would be a more bodily spirit, related to life force, vital force, vitality and physical states. So you could derive words like:

akaan’karam: morale, fighting spirit

to’karam: “together spirit”, the spirit of pulling together for a common cause.

ures kar’am: listless, lifeless

Alternatively, you could derive these form these from oya instead.

Runi

runi (n): soul (poetic only)

My best guess is that this is *run- + nominal suffix -i.

Best I can tell, there are no other words related to it in the dictionary, unless it’s related to the past prefix r’/ru’ and ruug ‘old age’, in which case the sense could be something like “the thing which has gone” as in “the soul has fled”.

So what about the definition? Traviss says “poetic only”, so which poetic sense is she referring to? English (in which the translation is given) has several:

The innate quality that makes something itself, “the soul of (something)”. I would have been tempted to go for this sense, but for me that seems like repeating *maan-. It could of course be that over the time, maan has come to mean Mandalorianness specifically, so runi has acquired this more general sense which maan had originally.

The animating principle, vital force. Already interpreted kar’am this way. And even if I scrapped that interpretation, I’d go with oya instead, not runi.

Embodiment, personification. “You are the very soul of the party.”

Psyche, “body and soul”. Does not seem very “poetic” to me?

Person. “Not a soul.”

A strong positive feeling, inspiration, passion, fervour. Hmm, in Mando’a words like that seem to be derived from oya.

A supernatural spirit.

So which sense was Traviss going for? Shab if I know.

I’ll make a part 2 with some more derived words later, but now I want to post this before going to bed.

#mando’a #mandoa #meta: mandalorians #mandalorian culture #mando’a language #mandalorians #mando'a #mandalorian philosophy #mandalorian religion #ranah talks mando’a #mando’a words #mando’a etymology #mando’a linguistics

[average-transdalorian]

Instagram comments be sensible challenge (never beaten)

To be Mandalorian is to follow a specific set of tenets (the Resol’nare). Jango did follow the Resol’nare for much of his life. Boba never did. “Only family can see you without your helmet” is one specific sect’s interpretation of the “armor” tenet, and does not (and should not) hold true for all Mandalorians. Whether or not he was a clone is entirely irrelevant to Boba being Mando’ad

Boba is not Mandalorian because he chooses not to be. The clones are not Mandalorian because (with the exception of the Nulls and maybe some RCs) nobody told them how they could be (this is an atrocity, to be clear. They have every right to be Mando’ad, and they should be told that). Again, helmet wearing is one specific sect’s rule, and applies to neither of the Fetts. Allowing himself to be cloned didn’t make Jango dar’manda (although his treatment of the clones almost certainly did), but being a clone isn’t what makes Boba not a Mandalorian. The Fett clan was well known in history (Cassus Fett, anybody?), Almev’s just a bitch and a liar. I have no clue what d.massive rent is trying to say tbh

Copyguybri is right, Boba doesn’t question anybody else’s legitimacy as Mando’ad because he himself is not one. Being Mandalorian isn’t just being a Supercommando (although Jango and Boba probably both still counted as supercommandos). Genetics don’t mean shit for Mandalorians; aliit ori’shya tal’din (family is more than blood) and gar taldin ni jaonyc; gar sa buir, ori’wadaasla (bloodline is not important, you as a parent is most important) are two Mandalorian proverbs for a reason; the first species to be Mandalorian is extinct, but Mandalorians still live

#anyways yeah Mango Fett is funny #Mandalorians #true mandalorians #the mandalorian #boba fett #bo-katan Kryze #din djarin #axe woves #paz vizsla

[wantonlywindswept]

random Tribe/mando history thoughts

So you know what would be 10000 times more interesting than the Tribe being a splinter of Death Watch?

The Tribe being descended from the True Mandalorians.

(now admittedly all of my info about Mandalorian history is from wookieepedia and I could be entirely wrong about everything, so take it all with a shaker of salt etc)

Like, Woves’ disdain for Din not having any Mandalorian blood is entirely opposite of the Tribe’s ‘highest honor is saving a foundling’ thing, and DW seemed more concerned with lineages than the TM, who def at least valued foundlings (see: Jaster with Jango) enough to respect them.

And we still don’t actually know what the Creed is? Like there’s usually the assumption that it’s the Resol’nare, but that certainly doesn’t specifiy anything about keeping a helmet on all the time, and aside from foundlings being the future, I believe is the only rule actually stated in the show so far.

So what if the Tribe follows the Supercommando Codex instead/also? Being honorable and following a code of behavior seems to be a thing for them, and the helmet thing could have been added when they needed to go into hiding.

also i just have feelings about the true mandalorians okay they could have been great they would have been great they embodied mandalore as an honorable warrior culture but they were betrayed and i hate everything about it THEY DESERVED BETTER

#the mandalorian meta #the mandalorian #true mandalorians #children of the watch #also fuck axe woves in particular! #i know i was not the only one to feel FUCKING FERAL #when that bitchass opened his goddamn mouth #fuck your mandalorian blood i'll kill you you little shit #...AHEM #anyway #it would also allow for more Boba appearances/involvement #cos you know #we gotta have at least 20 cameos an ep now

[superectojazzmage]

Still on my Star War streak, so I’m gonna write out a post that I’ve kinda written the sloppy bare bones of in tags. So, like, this Mando episode really highlights Bo Katan’s big character flaw. And it’s the denial that she could do anything wrong. Even at her biggest Depression Era, she never lets the blame fall on herself or her family.

In her head, it’s not the Kryzes and Deathwatch’s faults that Mandalore fell into civil war and decline, it was because of all the other factions, it was because all the stupid lowborn peasants and True Mandalorians wouldn’t shut up and do what the Kryzes or Deathwatch said, because they believed in something bigger then an earthly authority. It’s not her fault that every time she gains power everything crashes and burns, it’s because other people won’t bend the knee and fall in line. It’s not her fault that people don’t like her and don’t respect her as a leader, it’s because they’re obsessed with superstition and arbitrary rules that distract them from doing what she thinks needs to be done (which just so happens to be “listening to what Bo Katan says”) and it’s because people like Din keep “dividing” them from her.

And this extends to her treatment of and dismissal of the Resol’nare and the larger Mandalorian religion as just pageantry and superstition. Because that’s how both her family (self-hating Mandalorians who sold out to the Republic and served as colonial authorities in the name of power) and Deathwatch (brutal heretics who went hard in the opposite direction and wanted Mandalore to be nothing but glorified pirates and conquerors) saw and treated it. Neither of the groups she was a part of truly believed in the Mandalorian faith or its cultural identity. They just followed a shallow, materialistic mockery of it, performing and appropriating crude equivalents of the Creed because it made them look good, while secretly rejecting all of its actual tenets (“no outsider will rule Mandalore!” declares Bo Katan, supposed member of a culture that places huge emphasis on being open to outsiders and held up outsiders as some of its greatest rulers, despite the fact the Kryzes were almost certainly outsiders themselves).

At best, these groups see things like the Living Waters, the Mines, the Darksaber, the Mythosaurs, the Resol’nare, the Beskar, and the Mandalorian Pantheon as tools to placate and control the masses, even though both groups continually fail to use them that way. Because they don’t respect those things and don’t understand why most Mandos take them so seriously and refuse to acknowledge the mysticism and spirituality and religious power behind their civilization.

And Bo Katan specifically refuses to do so because if it is all true, if it really all is more then just words and children’s stories… that would mean Bo Katan isn’t a good Mandalorian, and certainly not a good person.

If any of the Mandalorian religion were true — and it most certainly is — and if any of the bad things that happened under her and her family’s watch were their own faults, that would mean that other people are right to reject Bo Katan, right to call her out as a traitor and hypocrite and bigot and failure. It would mean she and her family really were bad or at the very least severely misguided people who betrayed their culture in order to suck up to and emulate an uncaring, decadent Coreworld government. It would mean her and her precious Deathwatch really were just terrorists spitting on everything Mandalore stood for instead of “bringing back the old ways”. It would mean she really was a bad leader who led the Mandalorians into a slaughterhouse by leading open revolt against the Empire instead of operating in secret like the rest of the Rebel Alliance did. It would mean that she really was undeserving of the Darksaber and the title of Mand’alor and that she really was just totally inept at rallying her people in the aftermath of the Empire’s defeat.

It would mean that Bo Katan didn’t deserve the one thing I think that she always really wanted deep down; acceptance and love.

Bo Katan was the child of a colonial quisling family who looked down their nose at all the other Mandalorians for being a warrior culture. Of course she wouldn’t have been popular and well-regarded, not really, and certainly no amount of childhood “pageants” held as insulting concessions to the old guard would change that. So she left that life and went in the opposite direction of the pacifism that Clan Kryze and their “New” Mandalorian government preached. She went to the terrorists that said they were bringing back the old ways and hoped that would make her a hero of the people… only for them to instead just be terrorists who followed a warped, twisted version of the Mandalorian Way where they fought for its own sake and nothing more. That didn’t really earn her popularity points either — a small cadre of loyal followers, but certainly not widespread adulation, especially after she went running to the Republic again when the political winds shifted out of her favor and got installed as a Republic-friendly ruler yet again.

But then, salvation came; she was handed the Darksaber on a plate in exchange for helping fight the Republic Empire that she and her family had previously relied on for back up. She had all the power she could ever want with that sword and with that power would surely come the love she always wanted. People would cheer her on as Mand’alor and she would be beloved for all time. But that didn’t happen. And she led her people into the worst catastrophe in their history. But if she could just get the sword back, properly this time, and be the one to avenge the Night of a Thousand Tears by beating Gideon, then they would all love her right? Except she fails again; someone else defeats Gideon and gets the saber, and even if she had gotten it, it may not have been enough.

And, of course, through it all she just kept losing people. Whether to death (her dad, her sister, her lover) or to abandonment (her followers, her friends, her allies), she just lost friend and family at every turn until what few people were actually able to put up with her before were all gone, and it was very often her own fault, at least partially.

And along comes fucking Din Djarin. Everything Bo wishes she was. A Mandalorian beloved by his people and outsiders alike. Someone with friends and family and people who care about him. Someone who actually believes in and follows the true Way of the Mandalore and is very obviously happier for it. Someone who lucked into the title of Mand’alor that Bo had spent decades trying to attain in any way she could. Someone who stumbles into the magic and wonder of the Mandalorian Creed in ways that Bo Katan has never been able to, like finding a fucking Mythosaur by stepping off a ledge. Someone who is a walking reminder of every failure and mistake Bo Katan ever made and she could oh so easily have avoided them.

No wonder she has such blatant conflicted feelings about him.

I will also note that this is all really brilliant when you keep in mind the larger cultural influences behind Mandalorian culture and the worldbuilding and lore around them. The Mandalorians were generally fleshed out and designed with significant influence from Celtic (Irish, Scottish, Welsh, etc.) and Oceanic/Pacific Islander (Māori, Hawaiian, Polynesia in general, etc… the Māori connection is particularly prominent given two of the most notable Mandos — Jango and Boba — are played by a Māori actor) cultures… up to and including being victims of colonialism and repression of their native culture and faiths from Britain/the Core. This all, I feel, adds an extra layer of depth to Bo Katan’s story, as she’s functionally a child of two worlds, being more or less of both colonial and native descent. She’s divided between two cultures, between simultaneously wanting to downplay or dismiss or do away with her native heritage and beliefs for the sake of respect from/fitting in with the colonials and outsiders, yet paradoxically also wanting the approval of her native community and relatives and wanting to defend their way of life. It’s very fascinating and shows a complex character.

#star wars #star wars the mandalorian #the mandalorian #mandalorian #mandalorian s3 #mando #star wars expanded universe #star wars legends #star wars analysis #star wars lore #mandalorian culture #longpost #long post #star wars opinion #indulging my inner nerd today and presenting you all with more of my star wars nerdness

[the-blind-assassin-12]

🫘 and 💖 for the asks? 💗

Hi lovely!

💖 What is your primary writing goal for this year?

My one and only goal this year is to finish as many of my mangled, twisted wips as I possibly can. There are so, so many of them, and even if I only get one or two completed I’ll be over the moon. What’s that? You want me to list them? (No you don’t, but okay!)

All the wips in the mangled heap, including ones I’ve started posting AND ones that have yet to see daylight:

Resol’nare

The Viper & the Wild Thing *

Aphelion **

Tidal Force

Recall

Unfinished

Survivor Blues

Kiss Me & Smile For Me

The Last Thing You Need

Third Time’s the Charm *

Petrichor

Oracle

Angelfish *

The Long Con

Under The Thumb

Untitled Frankie Dog Rescue AU

A Clumsy Romance sequel

Numerous one shots in various states of progress

* these are one shot based series that don’t really have concrete endings planned so they don’t really count but I threw them up there anyway

** this one is a collaboration with @something-tofightfor

🫘 Spill the beans. What's a new project you're doing this year?

I’m super pumped for KM&SFM. It’s a TLOU pre and post outbreak AU featuring Joel and an OFC named Emma that I’ve been tinkering with for a while now. I know I’ve shared this snippet before, but it’s some of the first bits I wrote for this story, and it makes me laugh:

Joel is just like 😳OKAY TIME FOR SCHOOL GO GET YOUR BACKPACK LEAVE THE DISHES LEAVE THE TOPIC LEAVE IT ALL

And Tommy is like:

I love that little shit.

#thanks for asking! #2024 writing goals #writing asks #these are the wips that never end they go on and on my friendssss #Tommy is a full time little brother and I love him for it #I’m very excited about this story #and I hope everyone loves Emma when they get to meet her #she’s pretty neat if I do say so myself