Forestfolk
The Forestfolk also called "the ones that dwelled before" were the original inhabitants of the caverns they named Aman-ya.
They lived in the region that is now Styx before the arrival of the Sumraki-Ashaī and made these lands their home and now still populate the deep and dark Leshivoi Forest.
They practiced and still practice a nature-focused religion that centers the worship of the countless spirits and gods of the Leshivoi Forest and above all others they revere the Firstborn of the Greatwood.
Their religious traditions are broadly summarized referred to as the Eldest Faith and are said to have some in common with the Dwarven Aldtruth-Kept's worship of spirits of the Land, Sea and Wind. When the Sumraki-Ashaī arrived in Aman-ya they drove the Forestfolk off their land and took it for themselves starting a millenia lasting conflict that still brews today.
The Forestfolk aren't one singular species and more a culture made up of many different races that united under the same beliefs.
The shared pidgin of the various disparate and distinct dialects and tongues spoken across the vast Leshivoi Forest is called the Forest Tongue. The most common ethnicities among them are the Widdefolk, goat-like humanoids that are especially vilified within the fearful culture of Styx, Wild Elves, tribal humans and orcs not entirely unlike the Sattal or Kholyn as well as the felinoid Goblen and the small canine Kobolt and the mighty Lüngarmane and the enigmatic Wild Men also called Woodwose or Leshen.
Witches are also sometimes said to constitute their own species within the Forestfolk but much about that is unclear.
Some also consider the Warg who are closely associated with the Lüngarm to be part of the Forestfolk but tales of their supposed man-like intelligence are disputed.
Claims have also been made that Bykturen, imposing bull or stag headed and horned or antlered giants belong within the varied group of the Forestfolk. The people of Styx consider the Forestfolk to be evil and horrible twisted beings, they live in fear of them every single day and cannot imagine them to have redeemable qualities, this is, of course, not true.
In truth the Forestfolk are simply the nature-worshipping culture indigenous to Aman-ya pushed into the forest by the expansion of the Sumraki-Ashaī.
When the Forestfolk meet outsiders within the Leshivoi Forest interactions vary: some clanships hunt city-dwellers for sport, others hide from them, again others are cautiously friendly but most prefer to stick to themselves and leave the City where it is.
They lived in the region that is now Styx before the arrival of the Sumraki-Ashaī and made these lands their home and now still populate the deep and dark Leshivoi Forest.
They practiced and still practice a nature-focused religion that centers the worship of the countless spirits and gods of the Leshivoi Forest and above all others they revere the Firstborn of the Greatwood.
Their religious traditions are broadly summarized referred to as the Eldest Faith and are said to have some in common with the Dwarven Aldtruth-Kept's worship of spirits of the Land, Sea and Wind. When the Sumraki-Ashaī arrived in Aman-ya they drove the Forestfolk off their land and took it for themselves starting a millenia lasting conflict that still brews today.
The Forestfolk aren't one singular species and more a culture made up of many different races that united under the same beliefs.
The shared pidgin of the various disparate and distinct dialects and tongues spoken across the vast Leshivoi Forest is called the Forest Tongue. The most common ethnicities among them are the Widdefolk, goat-like humanoids that are especially vilified within the fearful culture of Styx, Wild Elves, tribal humans and orcs not entirely unlike the Sattal or Kholyn as well as the felinoid Goblen and the small canine Kobolt and the mighty Lüngarmane and the enigmatic Wild Men also called Woodwose or Leshen.
Witches are also sometimes said to constitute their own species within the Forestfolk but much about that is unclear.
Some also consider the Warg who are closely associated with the Lüngarm to be part of the Forestfolk but tales of their supposed man-like intelligence are disputed.
Claims have also been made that Bykturen, imposing bull or stag headed and horned or antlered giants belong within the varied group of the Forestfolk. The people of Styx consider the Forestfolk to be evil and horrible twisted beings, they live in fear of them every single day and cannot imagine them to have redeemable qualities, this is, of course, not true.
In truth the Forestfolk are simply the nature-worshipping culture indigenous to Aman-ya pushed into the forest by the expansion of the Sumraki-Ashaī.
When the Forestfolk meet outsiders within the Leshivoi Forest interactions vary: some clanships hunt city-dwellers for sport, others hide from them, again others are cautiously friendly but most prefer to stick to themselves and leave the City where it is.