arvokkaamman
Arvokkaamman is a fictional term used in worldbuilding and speculative fiction to denote a revered elder and ceremonial guardian within the imagined culture of the Arvokk people. The word combines arvokas, meaning valuable or venerable, with a suffix that marks a person or being, yielding a title for a keeper of tradition. In-world, the arvokkaamman functions as a memory-keeper, mediator, and protector, maintaining genealogies, reciting histories during festivals, and arbitration according to customary law. In some depictions, the arvokkaamman is a living elder chosen by a council after apprenticeship; in others, a carved wooden effigy housed in a shrine, believed to house a memory-spirit.
Rituals surrounding the arvokkaamman center on communal memory and authority. The annual Day of Remembering involves
Variation and influence: Across imagined regions, the concept of arvokkaamman adapts to local beliefs, sometimes emphasizing
See also: Ancestor worship, guardian figure, ritual leader, memory in folklore.