The Haspaini Tribe Is Formed

Founding

Nearly a century after Solun's creation of Mortals, Humanity (located primarily within the continent of Edane) has separated into a dozen disparate tribes who have all formed their own dialects and customs...

The predecessors of the original inhabitants of the land bridge is the human Hispaini tribe. At this time, Solun had separated his children, with the elves being formed to inhabit Equikoran continents to the west, and Humans destined to inhabit the last of Edane to the east with the Dwarves given all of the ground beneath them. It is unclear if Solun ever intended his children to intermingle as they have, or if he separated them for a reason and sought to keep it that way, their mingling only a nbyproduct of the interference of Maferath.

Nearly a century after the creation of mortals, humanity, ever imperfect, has allowed individualism and differences to separate themselves into different tribes who have each developed their own customs and dialect of their native language. Political tension ebtween the tribes is common, and outright conflict even more so given that we find ourselves in the Age of Blood when Maferath is constantly trying to corrupt the Creations of his siblings and twist their for his own purposes.

Historical texts that have been recovered from Age give conflicting reports as to how the tribe of Hispaini was found, although the most widely accepted founding story is that Alfar Hispaini, the first chieftain of the tribe, splintered from the much larger Saxax tribe located in the norther regions of Edane (commonly perceived as the eventually capital of the The Shayador Empire), over a matter of rotten beans. The way the historians tell it, Alfar Hispaini was a well to to do farmer and land owner int he Saxax tribe who owned nearly as much land as the unnamed Saxax chieftain. During a particularly bad crop season, when much of the tribe was going hungry, Alfar had given up much of his croplands to the public as a kind of community garden to allow others to use his unspoiled soil to grow food for their families, only reserving a small portion of his own land for himself. It was seem as a grand gesture and many of the tribemen began to raise Alfar's status to almost that of the chieftain, which disturbed the Saxax chieftain at the time.

Stories vary at this point, claiming that Alfar's crops were poisoned by the Chieftain out of jealousy, or that Alfar poisoned his own crops in hope of usurping the chieftains rule. In either regard all agree that someone Alfar's crops were poisoned and Alfar blamed the chieftain for that, taking his family 100 leagues to the south establish their own region away from the Saxax tribal lands. Many of the tribesmen for one reason or another chose to follow Alfar and they formed their own tribe in his name.

Within another half century they had created a culture of their own with its own distinct dialect, customs and rituals. They remained every hostile with the Saxax tribe, but most historians agree they were largely peaceful and prosperous with the other nearby tribes opening trade and commerce freely.