People (Memory Fading)

Human Cultures

• Arudorans, descended from the Tleks of old, pride themselves in being nothing like their ancestors. Many times since the War of the Nine Sins, they have tried to make amends with the Sydhi and Trakloks, but to no avail. They are light skinned, with dark or light hair and eyes.
• Khandians descended from ancient Laons and the Hiths. They have a cultural fascination with art, dance, and music, and have been known to incorporate that into many of their battles. They have a darker skin like the Laons, but are generally taller.
• Gaardans take great pride in being the first humans to form an empire on Alsa Eru. They have spent centuries fighting both the cold and the urshael, and though life is hard, they would not have it any other way. They are a large people, with thick skin, thick dark or reddish hair, and dark eyes.
• The Hiths are an ancient, warring people of the tropical Chulgeth archipelago. They are historically known for a great northern migration, hundreds of years ago, that helped found what is today known as Khandia. They have a dark, bronze-colored skin, dark eyes, and dark hair.
• Proud and warlike, the Laons have long thought of themselves as the natural inheritors of Alsa Eru. Though they now have peaceful relations with others of the continent, they once fought tooth-and-nail for every inch of their land. They are a smaller people, and are known for their sallow skin tones and dark, angular eyes.
• The Shaern left a land of war to find a land of hardship. Living in one of the deadliest lands on Alsa Eru has only strengthened them, and though they struggled with it at first, they now claim it as home. They have dark skin, reddish skin, with dark hair and eyes.

Non-Human Cultures

• Wanderers and nomads, the myari have seen the farthest corners of Alsa Eru, and have seen its darkest depths. There are very few legends these people don't know, and that knowledge fills them with a great fear. A small race, and often considered child-like when seen from afar.
• Little is known about the reptilian sirish, except that they are amongst the wisest and most technologically advanced people in all the lands.
• Created by magic, and sustained by will alone, the suls broke free of their enslavement only to find a world that wished they didn’t exist. They retain much of their sydhi heritage, but have coal black skin, and white or gray hair.
• Once called the Blessed of Aune, and at one time having the largest-spanning empires in existence, the sydhi have lost much in the past six hundred years. These once-proud keepers of the most beautiful lands on Alsa Eru now have but one home, far from those who tried to hunt them to extinction.
• The proudest of all Aune's children, trakloks are deeply burdened by their diminishing numbers, and the knowledge that they see the End Times... and those times are not far away.

Organizations and Important People

There are literally thousands of people and organizations who have helped shape Alsa Eru. All could not be mentioned here, but there will eventually be a separate page for them.

Miscellaneous Cultures

• The urshael are the cousins - or some say brothers - of the sydhi, and had been separated from most of Alsa Eru by the Frostfells for thousands of years, until the White Queen forced war upon the continent recently. They are small in stature, like the sydhi, with pearl white skin and snow white hair and eyes.
• Western Laons is the name given to the people who sailed far west to Erim-has and never came back. Now a massive empire grows on the western edge of Alsa Eru, and when these people are seen, there is obviously a large cultural disconnect from modern Laons.

Ancient and Lost Cultures

• Aedryn, also called the Ancients, were the original inheritors of Alsa Eru, and even much of Ord, but their own arrogance led to their destruction. They are now sealed away from all man-(and non-man)-kind, but they still live on as entities to be called from darkness in times of need and peril.
• Trakloks have been known to fight and kill people who have mentioned their relationship with the drumen, but the fact remains that an ancient race called the Brishkur split into two warring tribes and evolved to the races we know of today.
• The sirish are sometimes called the Children of Dragons, but before them came the Quizarrsh, the true Children of Dragons, whom the dragons loved more than all others, and who were left Alsa Eru to be with their patrons, never to return.