Vasaifa

The Vasaifa were a lowland people in the central Kaivasa region along the mountainsides just north of the mountain range that extends across a goodly portion of the nation’s southernmost border. When they started establishing cities to the west, they discovered vast salt mines and began selling the resource to other tribes traveling across the Kaisava plains outside their forested nook. This salt became critical to the long-term storage of meats and prepared meals, allowing for safer and more efficient extended travel and reinforcing cross-continental trading. While not well known for growing any particular food crop with spectacular success, the Vasaifa grow a strain of hemp with a strong fibrous stalk ideal for producing textiles and ropes, and would frequently trade this material for specialized foodstuffs. The Vasaifa were subjected to frequent interment beneath the mountain during the occupation of the region and the people were especially damaged by the demanding production requirements of their Lesser King to keep up with lavish offerings made to Afiligua’s Central Kingdom. For this reason, their numbers were few when the revolution first started to spread through their counties, but the vindication of families who’d lost their loved ones to the labor enforcers in the mines engendered a brutality which allowed them to quickly accept and spread the message.

Traditional Dress
In Vasaifa communities, it was common for women to wear ornate head coverings. A felted cap would be worn underneath a layered silk scarf and twisted around the neck and shoulders to trap warmth underneath their thick waxed coats. The scarf is fixed in place with decorated pins on either side of the head, which pierce the felt hat underneath to stay put. These pins often have thin chains - occasionally adorned with small gems and bells - which jingle when the wearer shakes her head. These were traditionally believed to scare away ghouls and evil spirits in the winter, and protect the wearer and their children.