inxsi wrote:What do young (2 - 6 year old) Loroi do for fun?
Female Loroi children play in much the same way 4-12 year old male human children do: rambunctious outdoor play, some organized sports, some indoor games, exploring, tinkering, building things, breaking things.
Male Loroi children are usually segregated in an order monastery, and tend to engage in indoor activities. Crafts and social games are popular.
inxsi wrote:Outside of times of war, when and how are young Loroi being trained for the warrior caste traditionally exposed to violence and death?
Who teaches the warrior schools that 6-8 year old Loroi warriors attend?
Young Loroi children often play "army" (much as human children do) in which they pretend to kill and be killed. In the diral band training phase from ages 6-8, the children go through a combination of basic training and wilderness survival school, during which they will sometimes conduct mock raids on each other and on local settlements. Injury during the training is common, and the occasional fatality is not that uncommon.
The diral band training is not really a school in the traditional sense. Practices vary widely, but there is usually a semi-permanent base camp in some frontier area where the instructors live and which has a supply depot and medical facilities, etc. The teaching staff consists of elder warriors assisted by young novices. The bands of children are organized and drilled, and taught specific sets of survival skills, and then sent into the wilderness on various missions (including "just go survive for a month"), upon returning from which they are given additional training. The novices occasionally go with the bands as guides, or sometimes just follow them at a distance to track their status and progress.