Nomadic Tribes

 

The Odesherai

Also known as the Horde of Odesh, or the Wild Horde, the Odesherai are a loose organization of barbarian tribes that somehow manage to survive in the Odeshi wastes of southeastern Ayodesh. They have no cities - only roaming nomadic camps, usually numbering in the dozens - but seasonally, they come together for games and celebrations. Combined, these scattered bands number in the tens of thousands.

The Nornges Breetfeiss

Breetfeiss means 'wide foot' in Oberschi, and the Breetfeiss nomads of the Nornges Taiga in Obersch are so called for the snowshoes they wear to walk over the snowy landscapes of the region. The Breetfeiss are comprised of hundreds of small nomadic tribes and bands each with their own Champion or Chief. They survive by fishing, trapping and hunting across the large, inhospitable region of the Nornges Taiga in northwestern Obersch. In the summer, most of the tribes converge on the large central alpine grassland of the region to engage in limited farming, and a season of trade, celebrations, games, intermarriage, and establishment of new leadership and territorial division.

The Breetfeiss do not consider themselves to be part of the Queendom of Obersch. They do not claim citizenship or residency, and do not recognize Oberschi law or Oberschi control of the Nornges Taiga. In a practical sense, the Breetfeiss are an autonomous people as the Oberschi Crown is not capable of enforcing Oberschi law across the Nornges Taiga in any meaningful sense, and the Breetfeiss seem to have no interest in infringing on the territories around Sterng Toer or Borea.

The Breetfeiss are well known to the Frost Wardens, and will work with them and trade with them, though from time to time the two groups have come into conflict.

The Rust Riders

The Rust Riders are a nomadic tribe who call the rugged and inhospitable Rhwd Island their homeland. Rhwd Island is a large island across a treacherous channel from Bryderfert on the Strait of Waeyron. The island is a treacherous rocky wasteland occupied by a range of exotic and dangerous creatures that the Rust Riders hunt for food, and materials; notably iron ant acid, cave dragon scales, and other exotic and rare animal parts that are considered valueable by 'mainlanders'. It is said that the Rust Riders can survive off of stone soup, and laugh in the face of a cave dragon. Occassionally, Rust Riders are known to trade in metals, minerals, ores, exotic goods with ships passing by, but largely they remain isolated on their island.

The White Shield Tribes

(Kashdush)

The Snakeskins

(Inik)