Lansian

Strictly speaking, the region of "Lansia" (the West) is the lands south of the Midrun Sea and west of the Caal River. More broadly speaking, a Lansian is what Vainites and Kainen call anyone who is a "westerner" in their minds. This includes people from the kingdom of Doltrek and the White Colonies, as well as those from the region around Lake Mandor in the north and the greater farmlands around Oriliath. Defined as an ethnicity, the word Lansian refers to the non-fae or halfae people from from the western half of the Region of Wessa, to distinguish them from the Fae of noble Elvaen blood. This may be illustrated as a continuum among the people of Wessa as follows:

(WEST) Fae <> Halfae <> Lansian <> Vainite <> Kainen <> Lurvite (EAST)

Lansians tend to be better educated than their Vainite and Naodrun counterparts. Classical Elvaen culture heavily influenced the lands around Ailunar, even among those not of Fae blood. The distinction between Fae and Lansian is less a cultural one, but is more like the distinction between nobles and commoners in other lands. Lansians generally stand between 5'6" and 6'0" in height and tend to have hair in various shades of blonde to brown. They can have a variety of eye colors. Except for the "Halfae" that have some Fae characteristics, physically, Lansians are normally indistinguishable from Kainen or Vainites.

The Lansian Language

The name Lansian also has a linguistic connotation. It refers to the "common tongue" among the nations surrounding the Midrun Sea, that used by most western merchants. Though it originates from the same language family as Vainite and Kainen, it has many more words borrowed from the Elvaen language (which, in itself, is considered the more upper-class and scholarly language, found especially in ethereal writings).