Epidi

Along the western lowlands a narrow peninsula juts out into the sea like a long crooked finger running north to south parallel with the land. The Northernmost part of this land meets with the mountainous highlands of the rest of Albion. the Southern end of the long peninsula is more fertile and green with abundant plains and forests and fair harbours. Off the eastern tip of the land lies the lofty island of Arran where the legends say that giants are were buried.
These lands the Epidi make their own through the cultivation of crops and raising horses. Above all else the Epidi are famed for their steeds and the breeding of fine horses. The horses are unlike those common to the Romans, being shorter and much more stout, only the height of a man but with powerful legs and a coat of grey to white. These horses run in wild herds across the peninsula and the Epidi set out in groups to capture and tame them. For it is a ritual among them when a boy is to become a man he has to tame his own horse and if he cannot he is unfit to ride with the men. In this way the horse has become the symbol of the Epidi.
The noble among them reside in settlements in the south of the peninsula and when their leaders give up the ghost their bodies are conveyed east over to the Isle of Arran to be interned among the sacred precinct of the giants of old.

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