Kiern Vale Handbook
Chapter 4: Kern A-Thel – The lands of
house Kor-Om'thel
Prologue | Landscape and Important
Locations | Local Population | Recent History | Characters
Organizations | Background of Player
Characters |Expansions of Further
Information
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Local Population Kern A-Thel is the only region in Kiern
Vale, in which the Far’lil are no more than a small minority of the
population. About 80% of the locals of the region are
En'mirians who intermarried with, and partially assimilated local branches of
ancient Karansil tribes closely resembling the En'mirians in appearance and
language, though not in culture. In their mountain haunts they maintained
distinct local traditions stemming from the dark and cruel era, when they
struggled for for survival against distant relatives of the Ogres. The
ancestors of these tribes worshipped an ancient and cruel deity whose name
and traits are long forgotten. The names and pronunciation of the
mountain tribes are easily identifiable by the stern "h" stop,
primarily found at the beginnings of names but also in other words. For
example, the En'mirian name "Tal'ranil" or "Til'ranil"
would transform into "Tahlranil" in the mountainous pronunciation.
Mountainous names and pronunciation generally omit the upper comma common in
The En’mirin language. The rest of Kern A-Thel’s population
consists of a scattering of Far’lil who migrated from other regions; few
Mistweavers, most of whom are affiliated with the Lord's Guard, and
unassimilated savage tribes originating from the outskirts of the vast Mag Eglor
Forest in the southeast of the region — distant relatives of the Tolo Valley
shepherds. Those tribes occasionally migrate with their herds to the lands of
Kern A-Thel, either because their high pastures are exhausted, or because
they are driven away by the dark forces residing in the Mag-Eglor Forest.
Unlike the assimilated descendants of the Karansil clans, they do not see
themselves as subject to the lord or region’s laws. Over the past 25 years, more and more
En'mirians from Orm'theril migrated into the region: initially refugees from
the defeated rebels of the Therilin province who settled mostly in the
Ferneth Erthel valley north of the region, and today also people from central
Orm'theril, including scholars from Tirenphel's Order and their followers. |
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