Tierdunite

Summary

The Ja'goroan of the south are the dominant ethnic group across Tierdun, and are considered strange even among their kin. They are broader and more stout than their relatives to the north. They have thick white fur that both camouflages them in the snow and keeps them warm in the freezing winters of the south.

Physical Description

The Ja'goroan of Tierdun are more stout than the other strains of the Ja'goroan, and their fur is thick and white, both protecting them from the cold and camouflaging them with the snow.

Psychological Description

The Tierdunites are more stoic than the more ill-tempered mainlanders, particularly in the southwest. However their contact with other cultures (particularly Humans) has caused them to develop a greater number of cultures and variations in personality than the other core states of Felsaed's former empire.

Range of Habitation

Tierdun, East Oron'Hye

Cultural Basics

Tierdun, the nation to the south of Felsaed is primarily under Ja'goroan control, and much like the split nations in the north has it's own subculture. The Tierdunites are culturally estranged from the other Ja'goroan cultures, their ethics more closely alligned to the Oroni to the west than the other Ja'-goroan. In north eastern Tierdun these changes are more subtle, as the milder temperature allows for a considerable populace of the eastern and western Ja'goroan to settle within the region. However in the farthest southwest regions the Oroni culture is so strong that cults to the Godcaster Olrad maintain a permanent foothold, and practice many magical arts that are taboo among the Eastern and Western Ja'goroan strains.
They have mastered a magic art they call cold forging, allowing them to continue to craft goods long after the winter winds strangle even the strongest forge flames. As innovative as this may seem the practice is little used elsewhere, and is extremely taboo in the Ascendancy up north. This art is believed to have not come from Mayreign as even his most loyal priests have yet to learn the art of cold forging, and is instead considered to be a teaching of Olrad given to his cults in the west most regions of Tierdun, separated only by frozen waters from the Godcasters home of Oron'hye. This suspicion is furthered by the Oroni peoples earlier discovery of this art.
Although prominent, the stoic southerner and caster worshiper subcultures are far from the only major cultures in Tierdun. Towards the northern regions, not far south of where cohabitation with the other ethnicities of the Ja'goroan is the norm, sits a region where the culture is dominated by merchants and exporters. This region, called the exporters band by many, is home to the wealthiest of Tierduns nobility where coldforgers meet with exporters to trade Cold-Forged goods en masse. Here you will find a greater racial diversity than anywhere else in Felsaed, with Tiorathan remnants from the war openly working with their former Ja'goroan enemies in many of the trade hubs in the region.

History

The Ja'goroan of the south are descended from the warriors of the Felsaed empire who fought with the Tiorathan empire on the southern front during the mid and late third age. Centuries of conflict hardened them to the point they adopted the stockier forms they have today, and caused the great cultural divides that caused them to split from Felsaed only decades into the second age. The Cultures of modern Tierdun were forged during the second age during this fracturing.
The first culture to form was that of the traders, or at the very least it's predecessor. It was founded after the sundering of Tiorath by defectors from the Tiorath Hierarchy, who had tired of their empires constant warfare, alongside the Tierdun branch of Felsaed's military hierarchy, who believed that the people of Tierdun were only being used as cannon fodder by the more powerful states of Felsaed, a view that was only reinforced by orders from East Felsaed to assault the now fractured and retreating (but still imposing) Tiorathan empire.
The defectors of Tiorath and Tierdun, although initially distrustful of each other, would band together to pursue their common interest of independence from their respective parent nations. The former forces of Tiorath and Felsaed would fight side by side in Tierdun's war for independence, sparking the fracturing of Felsaed and the eventual secession of the majority of Felsaed's Vassal states.

ARRIVAL IN TOR'SAARN

630 years BFA

PARENTAL GOD

Mayreign

WORSHIPPED GODS

Mayreign, Sericil

NATIVE REGIONS

East Felsaed

LIFESPAN

80-105 years

HEIGHT

195-221cm, +30cm when standing straight