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

Kneazles

Snowstrider Elves

 

BoarfolkBeast Wyldfolk

 

Ravenfolk

Boarfolk

 

Ravenfolk

Bearfolk

The Bearfolk of northern Eyr are exceptionally isolationist and very rare.  Bearfolk are solitary: they care neither for outsiders or truthfully their own kind much of the time.  There may be as few as a hundred Bearfolk on all the ice fields of the Eyrish north and they only form a community in the summer months to trade and find mates.