Based on this its a bit hard to point to any specific cultural inspiration, ‘Celtic’ seems a little too on the nose for a culture called the Kel Tan, and wasps, ships, and paper are not commonly associated with the ancient Celts. Eldaarich’s ancient roots might have some inspiration from Tibetan or Andean mountain peoples, though sky burials were almost always something done to someone you respected, not an enemy.
If you worshipped Earth (I feellike Tibetans would be said to worship Air), a sky burial might be the ultimate “Eff you” way to dispose of the dead. And didn’t the Eldaarich think that Goblins were corrupt little $hits, ruining the roots of the mountains during the Cleansing Wars?
It’d be like burying your enemies faceup vs. facedown from that one episode of ST: Voyager.
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Yup the proto-Eldaarich’s use of it, going by the public release Secrets of the Dead Lands, was both a sacrifice to the spirits of air and to deny the goblins their own traditional rites, which in many goblin cities seems to have been a ceremonial communal cremation by the cult of ‘Ash.’
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My proposal for the symbols of Raam.
The symbol of Raam is crown (top) eye (below crown in middle) and horizontal scepter (bottom, horizontally) .
The crown symbolizes the Grand Vizier. The eye is the eye of Badna. The scepter is the scepter of the city.
Templars under attack in the slums. They are accompanied by half-giants and the templars have the symbols on their tabards.
This does not mean that this has always been the symbol of Raam. It is the latest of many symbols. Abalach-Re frequently decides that a symbol is unacceptable or unfashionable, so this is her latest design. She wants her templars to look “cool” but isn’t concerned that they frequently get attacked. Its only when the city-state is on the precipice of open revolt that she can stir herself to action.