Humans, Yeshen
Few Yeshens know (or even know that they don’t know) the history of their race. Higher classed people--nobles and merchants--are usually taught by their tutors that when the Yeshen people arrived on the continent, they were little more than crude barbarians, and that they had been civilized by their Little Dream education and experience. Therefore those that still follow the old ways (crude music, stories, poems, jokes, humor, crude alcoholic beverages and low food) are less-thans, to be looked-down upon.
Yeshen nobles would style themselves after Bellourian lords, removing themself from the rabble of Yeshen culture, although in truth they retain the trappings of that culture more than they know. Beneath the surface, Yeshen nobility is seething with a discomfort--a sense of inferiority and insecurity. (This makes them dangerous in some instances, as they can take things out on those they see as less.) As stated above, this is less so in Woodsedge. There the nobles are servants of the people (and thus part of the people), and thoughts of competing with the Kingdom are few.
COMMON YESHENS AND YESH-HIM LEGEND
Nearly all of the people, save many Yesh-him and a very few Yeshens, have forgotten the history of the region, and they live with only a vague idea of what has happened in the past five hundred years. Especially those of low SES have no idea, save for tales of lost times and old sailing heroes, making voyages to faraway lands and conquering dragons and giants. For most Yeshens, these are just stories. The rumors of old ruins and mysterious magic—a lingering bit of “knowledge” that remains among the populace, are rumors of superstition and even fear. The presence of magic and living myth in the lives of the Yeshen people, especially in Alderham, is little, and there is suspicion and cynicism about it for most.
THE YESHENS AND THEIR HOME TERRITORY: The Yeshens and the Breaks
The Village of Mothar yel Yesh'him:
Ancestral Settlement along the Sea of Silver, where Yesh'him still practice the Older Ways, and still take their mythical form: Mothar yel Yesh'him
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