Wegwiur

The Wolf Nomads, properly known as the the Wegwiur, is a nation of nomadic horsemen that inhabit the Bitter Plains. The Wegwiur live of the land, foraging for food and hunting the local wild life. There is only one permanent city, Eru-Tovar, where small homesteads manage large grazing lands or small fields of potatoes or cabbage. The Wegwiur travel the Bitter Plains hunting the game and forging for plants that considers the strange region their home. Many odd occurrences have been reported inside the bitter plains, by both the Wegwiur and travels that have journeyed to the region. The Wegwiur do not keep dogs, instead they often travel alongside packs of wolves, whom seem to consider the Wegwiur a close sort of kin, according to explorers who have witnessed the two groups travel as one.

Naming Traditions

Feminine names

Agafia, Agafya, Agata, Aglaya, Agnessa, Agrafena, Aksinya, Akulina, Aleksandra, Aleksandrina, Alina, Alisa, Alona, Alyona, Anastasia, Anfisa, Ania, Anisia, Anna, Anouska, Antonina, Anya, Anzhelika, Arina, Arisha, Asya, Avdotya, Bella, Bronislava, Daria, Diana, Dina, Dominika, Dunya, Efimia, Efrosinia, Ekaterina, Elena, Elizaveta, Eva, Evdokiya, Evgenia, Fedosia, Fekla, Feodora, Fevronia, Filipa, Gala, Galina, Georgina, Grusha, Inessa, Inna, Ioanna, Irina, Isidora, Karina, Katya, Kira, Klara, Klavdiya, Kristina, Kseniya, Lara, Larisa, Larissa, Lena, Lidia, Liliya, Liubov, Lizaveta, Ludmila, Lukeria, Lyuba, Lyubov, Lyudmila, Malania, Mara, Margarita, Maria, Marina, Marya, Mavra, Mikhaila, Milena, Miroslava, Nadezhda, Nastasya, Nataliya, Nessia, Nina, Nyura, Olena, Olga, Orina, Oxana, Pelageya, Polina, Praskovia, Raina, Raisa, Rakhila, Raya, Roksana, Roza, Rozaliya, Rufina, Selina, Serafima, Sofiya, Sonya, Stanislava, Stepanida, Svetlana, Tamara, Tatyana, Tekla, Uliana, Ustinya, Valentina, Valeriya, Varvara, Varya, Vasilisa, Vera, Veronika, Vladimira, Vladislava, Vonda, Yaromira, Yaroslava, Yekaterina, Yelena, Yelizaveta, Yevgeniya, Yulia, Yuliana, Zhenya, Zina, Zinaida, Zinovia, Zoya

Root Names

Common: Anastasiia, Domna, Ekaterina, Fetiniia, Iriniia, Kseniia, Mariia, Marina, Nedelika, Tatiana
Standard: Afimiia, Akilina, Akulina, Alena, Anastasiia, Anna, Antonidka, Avdotiitsa, Bezubaia, Chiudka, Dedenia, Deretka, Dominika, Domna, Ekaterina, Elizaveta, Euprakseia, Evdokeia, Evdokiia, Evdokseia, Evfrosiniia, Fedorka, Fekla, Feodosiia, Fetiniia, Fevroniia, Gostiata, Iarina, Iriniia, Iulianiia, Katerina, Katerinka, Khristina, Kosenila, Kseniia, Makrina, Maremiiana, Marfa, Mariia, Marina, Melaniia, Milka, Miropiia, Nedelika, Negoshka, Nezhka, Ogrofena, Olena, Pelageia, Peredeslava, Proskurniana, Sapozhnika, Sofiia, Tanka, Tatiana, Uliiana, Varvara

Masculine names

Adam, Adrian, Afanasi, Agafon, Akim, Aldokim, Aleksandr, Alexei, Anan, Anatoli, Andrei, Anikei, Anisim, Anton, Arefei, Arkady, Arkhip, Arseni, Artem, Artur, Artyom, Avdei, Averiy, Bogdan, Boris, Bronislav, Danya, David, Demian, Denis, Desya, Dimitri, Dmitri, Dominik, Dorofei, Efrem, Eleferii, Emelian, Eremei, Ermolai, Evdokim, Evgeni, Fedosei, Fedot, Fedul, Feliks, Filat, Filimon, Filipp, Fotei, Fyodor, Gaspar, Gavril, Gennadi, Georgiy, Gleb, Gordei, Grigori, Ignat, Igor, Ilarion, Ilya, Innokentiy, Iosif, Ippolit, Irinei, Ivan, Karl, Kazimir, Kirill, Kliment, Kondratii, Konstantin, Kuprian, Kuzma, Laktion, Lavro, Lazar, Leon, Leonid, Lev, Luka, Lukian, Makar, Mark, Martin, Matvei, Maxim, Maximilian, Mikhail, Miron, Miroslav, Mitrofan, Modest, Moisei, Mstislav, Naum, Nazarii, Nestor, Nikifor, Nikita, Nikolai, Oleg, Onisim, Onufrii, Osip, Panfil, Pankrati, Pavel, Peter, Petr, Porfiry, Prokofy, Pyotr, Radimir, Radko, Radoslav, Rodion, Roman, Rurik, Ruslan, Rustam, Samuil, Saveli, Selivan, Semeon, Semyon, Sergei, Sevastian, Sofon, Spiridon, Stanimir, Stanislav, Stepan, Svyatoslav, Tadei, Terentii, Timofei, Tomas, Trofim, Tsesar, Ulian, Ustin, Vadim, Valentin, Valeri, Varfolomei, Vasili, Vassily, Venedikt, Venyamin, Viktor, Vitali, Vladimir, Vladislav, Vlas, Vsevolod, Vyacheslav, Yakim, Yakov, Yaroslav, Yegor, Yevgeniy, Yosef, Yuri, Zakhar, Zavid, Zinovi

Root Names

Common: Fedor, Foma, Georgii, Grigorii, Iakov, Ivan, Mixail, Oleg, Stepan, Vasilii
Standard: Aleksandr, Aleksei, Andrei, Anton, Bolda, Boris, Boroda, Buiak, Chernek, Chort, Davyd, Dmitrii, Domaslav, Domazhir, Drozd, Fedor, Filofei, Foma, Georgii, Grechin, Gridia, Grigorii, Guba, Iakov, Iakun, Iaroslav, Iev, Ignatii, Iosif, Iov, Ivan, Kisel, Kozel, Kriv, Kuritsa, Kuzima, Maksim, Mal, Malina, Matfei, Mestislav, Mikhail, Mil, Miloslav, Miroslav, Mixail, Nezhek, Nikita, Oleg, Orekh, Pavel, Prokopii, Radoslav, Sbyslav, Semeon, Shchuka, Shuba, Sidor, Sobol, Stanimir, Stepan, Sviatoslav, Tretiak, Tvorimir, Vasilii, Viacheslav, Vladimir, Voislav, Volchok, Volotok, Vsevolod, Zaiats, Zavid, Zaxarii, Zhiroslav, Zhiznobud, Zub

Family names

Common: Egorov, Fedorov, Grigorev, Ivanov, Kozlov, Kyznetsov, Lebedev, Mikhailov, Morozov, Nikolaev, Pavlov, Petrov, Popov, Semenov, Smirnov, Sokolov, Stepanov, Vasilev, Volkv, Yakovlev
Standard: Abramtsov, Akimov, Aksenov, Aleev, Aleksandrov, Alekseev, Alyoshka, Andreev, Andreyev, Andropov, Anisimov, Anokhin, Arkhipov, Bakhmetev, Balakirev, Baranov, Baranova, Barishnikov, Batukhtina, Bazilevsky, Beketov, Belanov, Belousov, Belov, Belyaev, Belyakov, Beregovoi, Berzin, Bezuhov, Biryukov, Bogdanov, Boricov, Borisenko, Borshevsky, Buinovsky, Bukharin, Bykov, Charkov, Chashnikov, Chernienko, Chernitsky, Chernov, Chernyshev, Chicherin, Chistyakov, Danilov, Dashkov, Demidov, Denisov, Derevenko, Dmitriev, Dolohov, Dostoevsky, Dubrovskiy, Duchovny, Efimov, Egorov, Erikeev, Ermakov, Evdokimov, Fedorov, Fedorova, Fetyukov, Filatov, Filimonov, Filipov, Filippov, Fomin, Frolov, Gagarin, Ganelin, Gerasimov, Gogunov, Golitsin, Golubev, Gopchik, Gorbachev, Goryachev, Grigorev, Grigoriev, Grishkuv, Gromov, Gromyko, Ignatev, Ignatiev, Ilin, Iltchenko, Isleniev, Ivanov, Izedinov, Jakov, Kalashnikov, Kapustin, Karin, Karpov, Katzev, Khokhlov, Khromoi, Khvostov, Kiselev, Klevshin, Klimov, Kochetkov, Kolesnikov, Kolokoltsov, Koptev, Koslov, Kostiurin, Kovalenko, Kovalev, Kozlov, Krylov, Kubarev, Kulik, Kupchenko, Kuzmin, Kuznetsova, Kuzyomin, Kyznetsov, Laptev, Larionov, Lasovskaya, Lazarev, Lebedev, Lebedyenko, Leonov, Lepechin, Lermontov, Litvinov, Lobachev, Lobanov, Loginov, Lukanov, Lukin, Lukyanov, Mahayev, Maikov, Makarov, Markov, Maslov, Matiushkin, Medvedev, Melnikov, Mendeleev, Merkulov, Mikhailov, Mikulin, Mironov, Mizirov, Molodin, Molotov, Morchenko, Morozov, Nakhimov, Naumov, Nazarov, Nesterov, Nikanov, Nikitin, Nikolaev, Novakovsky, Novikov, Obolensky, Omelchenko, Orlov, Osipov, Ostrogorsky, Ovcharenko, Ovinko, Panin, Pankratev, Panov, Panteleyev, Pasternak, Pasunin, Pavlov, Petrenko, Petrov, Podgorni, Polyakov, Ponomarev, Popov, Potemkin, Prerovsky, Prokhorov, Pushkin, Putilov, Putin, Rachmanov, Ratkov, Razumovsky, Revnik, Rokossovsky, Ronzhin, Rudakov, Rumiantsev, Sadykov, Salamov, Samarin, Satyev, Savelev, Savin, Scherbakov, Schlensky, Seleznyov, Semenov, Sevruk, Shcherbakov, Sherikov, Shirkov, Shukhov, Simonov, Skvortsov, Smirnov, Sokolov, Solzhenitsin, Sorokin, Spiridonov, Stepanov, Strogonov, Suvorov, Sviridov, Talietzin, Tarasov, Tatishchev, Tchechenko, Teplov, Tikhomirov, Tikhonov, Timofeev, Titov, Topolev, Tretiakov, Turov, Tyurin, Ukhtomskoy, Ulyanov, Ushakov, Vasilev, Vasiliev, Vdovushkin, Verkhovsky, Vezirov, Viazemsky, Vladykin, Vlasov, Volkovoi, Volkv, Volodimerov, Volsky, Vorobev, Voronin, Voronov, Yablokov, Yakovlev, Yavlinsky, Yazykov, Yudin, Yumashev, Yuriev, Zaitsev, Zajaczek, Zakharov, Zbruev, Zhadovsky, Zharov, Zhdanov, Zhukov, Zhuravlev, Zinoviev, Zmiev, Zotov, Zubov

Culture

Common Dress code

Tradition clothing is called a deel (Mongolian: дээл [deːɮ]; Buryat: дэгэл, [dɛɡɛɮ]) is an item worn form centuries among the Wolf Nomads and other nomadic tribes of the Plains of Ash, including various Darkshelf peoples, and can be made from cotton, silk, wool, or brocade.

Art & Architecture

Wegwiur architecture began with the woodcraft buildings of the ancient Wolf Nomads. Some characteristics taken from the Wolf Nomad druidic temples are the exterior galleries and plurality of towers. During the first era, lamaseries were built throughout the Cold Marshes as temples which were largely lost to time and weather in the marshy land. Those that survived, were later enlarged to accommodate a growing number of  worshipers. Wegwiur architects designed their temples with six and twelve angles and pyramidal roofs approximating the yurt's round shape. further expansion of any surviving temple since then, led to a quadratic shape in the design of the temples, with roofs in the shape of pole marquees. The current yurt's are usually made of lighter but strong materials: trellis walls, roof poles, and layers of felt.

Coming of Age Rites

Rite Of Passage

At age 12 to 15 each Wolf Nomad must lead a pack to hunt (in the old days they would hunt alone, but the world has become a darker place). They do not have to make a kill, but most find food or wound an enemy. If strangers come to the Wolf Nomads and wish to trade or speak to the leaders but seem suspicious they are often required to undertake the Rite to prove their good intent.

Funerary and Memorial customs

Honored dead are burned on pyres, and are almost always followed by a large wake that usually involves the entire roaming band of nomads. At Eru-Tovar, wakes are held in the Khans Fortress, and the entirety of the village shows up to pay their respects.

Common Taboos

Harming a wolf or a dog, pet or not, is grounds for immediate execution, usually by violent mobbing.

Common Myths and Legends

The Legend of the Wolf Mother

The Wolf Nomads revere the being called Fenrec, known to them as Mama-Wolf or the Black Wolf. The myths of the Wolf Nomads state that the wolf mothered the founders of Eru-Tovar, Gesh and Isth when they were but children, allowing them to suckle from her three teats. It is believed that these three teats were the wellsprings of courage, honor, and pride.

Major organizations

Wolf Nomads

Encompassed species

• Human

Related Organizations

• Wolf Nomads

Related Items

• Throwing Knife

Related Locations

• Bitter Plains