Dumid
Lowland Araduns
According to the Stonefoot Carvings, the Dumid, referred to as the Bestun in the Carvings, were one of the successor cultures that came from the surviving Araduns after the Aggelomachy. They followed their leader Best from their cavern homes to the surface world, estimated to be sometime in 2200 pre-sc.
The Dumid are said to have struggled to survive, losing half their people, from the dangerous terrain and ice, predators, and starvation, before finally making it out of the Cutting Mountains into the grassy lowlands to the north. According to the Stonefoot Carvings an stone pillar was erected at the site where the Dumid settled in these lowlands, with some believing the Brim Obelisk is this pillar.
The following centuries saw the Dumid people spread out across what would be southern Novyum today. Their culture came to center around Elder Tree Onoma. Evidence, in the form of stone obelisks, of these people reaching the southern shores of Lake Roic have been found, but the Dumid seemed to have an aversion to the deep forests of Saquutu, that cover Novyum at the time. Their population, rather, spread east across what ancient accounts called the Larsnu Plains. One of these migration groups became the Espin.
The Gilgurth arrival in 1200pre-sc devastated most cultures world-wide. With the impact being in the Cota Ocean, the Dumid did not suffer the tsunamis and air shockwaves that other cultures west and south of the Cutting Mountains had experienced. Best evidence shows that those dwelling in the Mantle of Onoma seemed to continue life as normal for them, even as large swaths of Saquutu burned. The land provided food, the tree provided fresh clean air, and all was well. The Espin, however, out in the plains were pushed east by the disastrous weather that followed. These people came to dwell in what would be todays Espin Peninsula, named after this most ancient culture.
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