Yesh'him People, the
The Yesh'him are a completely unique ethnicity, descended from the people that fled Fel-Karri and sailed north to Dreamsgate, fleeing a horrid destructive event on their home continent. Across the Silver Sea they sailed, to reach the port-site that is now known as Mother yel Yesh-him (or "city [settlement}of the Yeshens." Here they have established a beautiful village, complete with enormous an enormous shipyard and boatswain hangar on the water.
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.
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.
History: This is the place where the Yesh-him landed in their second wave. The first wave landed on the eastern coast, where the Free Cities are now, but another wave came, and they have kept the traditions alive, despite the dwindling number of Yesh-him (only 150 left now in the world). The magical traditions especially go back over 500 years, and many of the Yesh-him work hard to keep their language alive.
The Yeshen populace knows there is something special and powerful about the “blue-eyes” among them, and the dichotomy is accepted. They two sub-races have mingled. The Yesh-him still keep ancient secrets though, such as their ability to transform into mer-people, and the secret sacred temples they keep underwater.
The “blue-eyes” see themselves as shepherds, taking care of the others, and looking over them. They stay hopeful that someday their race can be revived, and they look for magical means for this to come about. Some long to return to the old Homeland and find any kin that might be left, and to see what became of the Homeland.
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