Erskaelosi

The Erskaelosi were, in origin, a nomadic group of people who wandered the Irkainian Peninsula from the lands of the Buntesveldt to what is now the Principality of Pelshtaria. At the time of the Great Darkness, many of them fled west and south, but found little welcome and less opportunity in their travels until they finally reached the Kingdom of Burgundia on the Sinnar Coast. There they constructed the city of Tyr as a new homeland.
After the fall of Burgundia in 3354 I.R., many displaced Erskaelosi began to wander once again. The wide-open places of the Unclaimed Lands of the northern Borderland Provinces and The Plains of Mayfurrow north to the Dragon Hills proved to be sparsely settled and offered a degree of freedom from persecution not experienced since the height of Burgundia. Mayfurrow has since become a more settled and civilized realm with only a few small bands of Erskaelosi wandering about, always careful to avoid agitating the villages and steadings of The Plains. But to the north many large bands of Erskaelosi still run free.
While the Erskaelosi get along well with Plainsmen and the Riverfolk, they tend to be looked at suspiciously by city folk, who often see them not so much as neighbors but rather as a potential threat. For their part, the bluff and boisterous Erskaelosi have no qualms about reinforcing these stereotypes as an excuse to drink hard and play hard.
Erskaelosi tend be tall stocky, with weather-beaten — often freckled — skin, and brown or black hair worn long and loose by men and women alike. Their eyes range from dark browns to bright greens. They are usually garbed in rough skins and are prone to tribal symbols tattooed or branded upon their face, arms, and chest.
The people who now live in the Buntesveldt and, to a lesser degree, Pelshtaria, share a heritage with the Erskaelosi, but centuries of intermarriage with Hyperboreans, other tribes, and Ashurians from the Caliphate led these peoples to deviate substantially in culture and appearance.