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| ====== Peoples of Aurius ====== | ====== Peoples of Aurius ======= |
| ==== The Elven Peoples ==== | ===== The Elven Peoples ===== |
| ==== The Mannish Peoples ==== | The [[Elves|elven people]] of [[Aurius]] found themselves scattered about the world because of the emergence of the [[Elefyr]], those same who the [[Arethara]] would strive to emulate and worship. Notably, this allowed for the existence of the [[Neiara]], who inhabited the land of which they called [[Driayn]], who rejected the worship of the Elefyr and the caste system such that they were deemed forsaken by the [[Cephareth]], the ancestor spirits. From this race which possessed no clear, defining characteristic came the [[Vaathara]] and the [[Mirara]], who themselves had their own schism in regards to worship and religion. Some of the most powerful of the Cephareth who sacrificed themselves, those being [[Terravis]], [[Aecora]], and [[Aryiel]], would found a worship of themselves among their chosen people that soon instigated their departure from [[Arethayn]] to the mortal worlds that existed from without the elven homeland. These chosen people were the [[Silvara]], the wild elves who inhabited the jungles and worshipped Terravis; the [[Undara]], the oceanic elves who inhabited within the ocean and worshipped Aecora; and the [[Ayenara]], the elves of the sky who inhabited within air and worshipped Aryiel. |
| | ===== The Mannish Peoples ===== |
| | The [[Humans|mannish peoples]] of [[Aurius]] are found throughout Aurius, though they do not all claim descent from the same group. It is thought by most that the modern humans were created or bestowed with soul by the gods after some calamity, and thus, tend to look to beings higher than they to achieve meaning in life. However, the prehistoric humans of both [[Caskaris]] and [[Ethrekas]] were notably each divided into two groups, with the former being the [[Ayanics]] and the [[Neraics]] and the latter being the [[Makhetia]] and the [[Ethetia]].\\ |
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| | Of the descendants of Ethrekas, the Makhetia were subject to the wrath of [[Solara]] such that their structures and governance were [[The Great Scorching|laid waste to by the flame]], and the Ethetia instead being gifted with soul by Solara herself as they were believed to be congenial to her. Thus, the Ethetia's blood survived and became split across the land of Ethrekas into various tribes. The modern [[Kataletia]], who are identified as such because of their status as having belonged to the [[Grecydan Empire]] and thus, allowing for a homogeneous identity, are one such, and they are typically contrasted with the [[Eretia]], who inhabit within the fertile lands of [[Tradarda]] as they were once enslaved by the elven peoples of the [[Vaathara]]. This classification is considered by some to be too broad, however, and that many peoples and phenotypes exist in the Kataletia than would be thought. Kataletian scholars hold that there were six main tribes that descended into the modern Kataletia, each with their own physical traits and mannerisms. These are the [[Teletia]], the [[Najetia]], the [[Fajraetia]], the [[Aldetia]], the [[Minetia]], and the [[Vespetia]].\\ |
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| | Of the descendants of Caskaris, there were previously the Ayanics and the Neraics, who now have become two distinct peoples that contrast by way of appearance and cultural belief. These two groups are the [[Iluayans]] and the [[Varayans]], who were born from the interbreeding of the earlier peoples. The Varayans, who are thought to have migrated past the mountains of [[Aryela]] into the northern lands of snow, worship primarily [[Corala]] as a goddess of balance and karma, and it is she who mediates the flow of the mortal world. The Iluayans, on the other hand, belong to many subtypes, with the [[Druids of Caleya|druidic peoples]] having belonged to the faith of the Neraics and who found their bloodline dispersing into the eastern Ayanics. From these druids came the tribal [[Aetherics]] and the occultists of the east, who worship the [[Deonyths]] as gods. |
