Fridians

The Fridians were a civilisation of city-states centred around the Sélmara, whose modern name derives from the Fridian "zēlmer"; at its greatest extent it covered the Baluarte Peninsula and most of Elicia. It was one of the earliest litterate cultures of Eussis, and had a great deal of influence on the Vallaran and later Varaso civilisation that would succeed it. The earliest material evidence of the culture dates from around the 2^nd century, but their written records begin to appear in the 4^th. It was eventually absorbed into the early Varaso Kingdom, and the Fridians would dissolve into the Varasos over the course of 12^th and 13^th centuries.

Name

The term "Fridian" comes from the Vallaran "fridius, -ii", which was used to refer to the people. The Fridians did not view themselves as a monolithic culture or people, and would more often associate themselves with the city-state they belonged to, but did nonetheless recognise that they shared a language and general culture, and were otherwise distinct from other people groups, and referred to themselves as "ΩƏΦLN/ƣ̇ꝺφլ̖η" (wheptlin).