Human Ethnicities and other Races for against the Robots

Ethnicities in the area

Humans

Varazzan

Averagely built humans with dark hair and pale eyes rare this far west and outside the larger cities they resemble our worlds Japanese physically in many but have round eyes  ways but are not shorter than  surrounding people in the way the medieval Japanese where. There culture is old sophisticated and mostly a maritime based mercantile one. The imperial phase they are currently in started with them expanding on a trade basis into the lands of the failing Arran Empire some five to six century’s before and they prefer to expand by trade and assimilation than conquest. However those who dismiss them as a nation of shopkeepers should be aware that they are more than able to fight when required.

Ammrenmd

Are almost completely Varazzan in culture these days with the odd remnant of the culture they had prior to conquest and assimilation being found in rustic backwaters. They are physically of average size for humans and generally of a European appearance though both ginger hair and blonde are quite rare and due to long contact with the Varazzans long dark or black hair is common in the larger towns.

Solmari

Still have a distinct culture which makes them different from both the Varazzans and there neighbours are a vigorous people taller than the average human by a good couple of inches but noticeably slimmer. They are mostly farmers and even those that live in the cities the Varazzan’s built tend to follow the agricultural calendar rather than the Varazzan one which is more commercial and perhaps maritime. In general appearance they are a lot like their Ammrenmd neighbours except that straight hair is unknown and many have African type hair, and adopt similar practices of oiling and braiding it though they are much more likely to be either blondes or redheads as those with darker hair tend to have more Eurasian type hair. They are strongly religious and worship various agricultural deities as well as the Bright One a cult they seem to have adopted form the Dwarves with whom they have been in long contact. It is from them that the local nobility even those of Varazzan descent adopted the practice of a married couple holding the title between them

Jehenghii

They came from the west out of the dense temperate jungles beyond the Solmari lands, seemingly absorbing displacing bands of primitive forest hunter gatherers as they did so. A fierce warrior culture which considers trade beneath it and the province of slaves, they warred with the west most Solmari tribes and drove them out before being stopped by an alliance of Solmari and the dwarves. After the Varazzans came and began to dominate the Solmari lands and press on into those they considered theirs they chanced there arm again against the week easterners and  learned to their cost that they where not so weak

Kethian

The tribes who live north of the gap and which are actually a mixture of related groups of varying size ranging from small family groups of hunter gatherers eking a living on the barrens, to the larger tribes around the south and west edges of the region where some agriculture is possible an where game is to be had all be it very little especially by the standards of the more fertile and warmer lands south of the gap. All are small slightly built compared to the peoples from the south of the gap universally blue eyed blonde and very fair skinned. They are a Stone Age culture with a strong fear of technology especially worked metals and a complex web of taboos particularly about certain mounds mostly in the barrens which they hold to hold evil spirits. They have little fear oddly enough of magic but being an illiterate culture arcane magic is limited to what can be thought by rote and there religion is based around nature spirits the most powerful of which the Elk and the Eagle have something like an over arching inter group organization. As with arcane magic the priests of the Elk and the Eagle are limited as all knowledge has to be transmitted orally and learned by rote. There are similarities between these people’s cultures and those of the Laps and Siberians for the larger groups and of the precontact Inuit for the smaller ones on the barrens.

Other human ethnicities

The Varazzan Empire is as is typical of ancient and medieval empires a multi ethnic entity so pretty much every imaginable human appearance and culture can be found with in its broad boarders or with in those of the similar empires who are its neighbours to the south and south west, it is just that by the time you get to the empires north west corner there are very few of them to be seen on the street, sufficiently so as to draw curious stares and the interest of small children. The Varazzan’s are not how ever racist on the whole and have a pragmatic all encompassing attitude to foreigners whilst still considering being Varazzan to be the height of human achievement.

Non Humans

Dwarves

Mountain folk with a large mostly subterranean kingdom under the barrier peaks to the east of the gap. Who have been stanch allies of the Varazzans since they met as both seem to be mercantile peoples

Half giants

Massive hulking folk who where the foot soldiers for the giants in the war thirty years ago but who had not been heard of at all before, unlike the giants themselves who feature commonly in Kethian folk lore as evil antagonists. They appeared to have dwelt with the giants and in the lands immediately south of the northern mountain range where the giants originate. Those who now dwell in the south are the survivors of an uprising provoked by Gialia silver tongue of Vania’s old band and their descendants.  They tend to live either in small communities and farm or work as labour for humans especially around Zebregan where there massive strength and hardiness lead to a reopening of the mines as they could prize more metal form the load than humans even if the mine tunnels needed to be widened in most cases tom let them in