Ancestries of the Frozen Steppes
Eyr's Frigid North
The northern steppes, taigas and boreal forests of Svyr and Eyr are a harsh terrain. Resources are less accessible despite a great wealth of it under the permafrost and granite. The seas are frozen for much of the year, only opening in the brief heat of summer. The cold and drear broadly breeds two types of cultures here- clannish isolationists and the commune-oriented. Universally, the frigid north forces its people to form a thick callous and a stalwart grit.
The Frigid North of Eyr is not thoroughly peopled. It is a sparsely-populated and rural land with only pockets of civilization, usually around vital resources. It is days between even the most rudimentary of settlements. This realm feels like one of untamed wilderness, dangerous and dark between the torchlight of habitation.
Northern Humans
Humans exist in the North, but they form only a sizeable minority. To say they have tamed the North is laughable. The North forces their submission with wild animals and harsh weather. Humans very much live at the whims of the North and thus they tend to be a hardy but also austere people.
Krasznya
Svyrlunder
Northern Cousins
The Nearfolk- other Mortal beings native to Arhun- exist to round out the majority of denizens in the Frozen North. Each deal with the Humanfolk and each other differently. The first to have claimed this unforgiving realm was
Vault Dwarves
Kazarn Orcs
"Malenkya" Smallfolk
Northern Wyldfolk
Winterwise Gnomes
WinterwiseKneazles