Hyperboreans

Scholars the world over, from Castorhage to Pharos, consider the Hyperborean race as a distinct lineage to be extinct. The last remnant of that ancient people disappeared from Tircople 900 years ago, and from Akados a century before that. Though many records of those times exist, oddly enough a description of a typical Hyperborean does not, and accordingly what they looked like remains a subject of intense scholarly debate.
There are some folk within the Lost Lands who claim direct or near descent from the Hyperboreans, such as the citizens of Freegate in Akados and the Berrini between the lands of Irkaina and the Northlands. There are good historical reasons to accept their assertions, though the fact that Berrini and Freegaters look little like one another may make it difficult to accept the truth of both simultaneously. Of course, centuries of intermarriage with locals has undoubtedly affected both peoples and led to necessary divergence of their characteristics.