Just me, or are Raen Auri...EXCEEDINGLY polite?

[Warr_of_Lint]

I noticed that they seemed slightly more polite than may be expected, but I did not find their politeness to be extremely excessive nor dissonant with my overall impression of their character.

When I went through the Raen palace (Shisui), the aesthetic to me was that of a temple more than a palace. It had settled in my mind that the undersea Raen royalty were modeled after the feudal era Japanese emperors, who were more a spiritual figureheads than rulers (especially in the military sense). In that vein, the of villagers of Sumi no Sato are non-interventionist and non-confrontational at their core.

Yugiri being something of an exception.

Furthermore, the Raens who first greeted the player, I thought, were basically caretakers and priests, who are even more disinclined to be very forceful when compared to an average sui no Sato villager.