Heldring

The fair-skinned Heldring have lived on the Helcynngae Peninsula for as far back as histories reach. After the fall of Hyperborea, their longships full of vicious raiders landed on the coasts of Akados and swept all before them as they established colonies along large stretches of the Sinnar Coast. Many current-day residents of these regions still bear the distinct characteristics of the Heldring in their ancestry. Eventually, the armies of the overking of Foere drove the Heldring from continental Akados back to their peninsula, where they live to this day. One key result of the Foere conquest, however, was the conversion of the Heldring from the worship of Hel to the faiths of Thyr and Muir.
The Heldring tend to be a tall, broad-shouldered people, many with fair hair and, among the men, prone to thick beards. They speak their own tongue of Helvaenic, though many also speak Common.