Elf, Bur'an

Appearance

The Bur'an often have dark skintones ranging from olive to black with white or orange hair.

Traditional Bur’an culture is very ritual and caste focused. Change is not allowed, except when declared by the king during an eclipse. A wise king, some 500 years ago, declared half of the city of Djedbura exempt from most of these restrictions. These Outlander districts as they became known grew until they were most of the city, focused on trading and entertainment.

Average Characteristics

• Age: Aiel become adults at 50, and most live to 500 years
• Size: Heights range from under 5ft to over 6ft. Most have slender to muscular builds.
• Language: Elvish (Bur'an)

Locations

Most of Bur'an civilization is clustered along the Persari River and Welsari Delta. Their capital is the city of Djedbura.

History

2000ish years ago
The last remnants of the Bur’aiel empire, the first to rise in Vestra. The land was blasted during a war with the Djinn and turned into the desert it is today. In the aftermath of that destruction the survivors argued as to how to react.

One group, now calling themselves the Bur'an, wanted to rebuild a city and to attempt to find their lives again. They argued that the past was the past and they would not make those mistakes again, but now was the time to look to the future.

The second group, now the Aiel_Elf, argued that they must live as nomads as penance for the mistakes of their ancestors. Only through embracing the desert could the people learn the lesson of their downfall.

In what became known as the Breaking or Shunning (depending on if you were Bur’an or Aiel) the two camps chose to separate. Perhaps surprisingly, almost two-thirds of the survivors chose to become Aiel and swore an oath of non-violence, later called the Way of Serenity.

Traveling north, for no other reason than it was the opposite of the Aiel, the remnant of Bur'an found that the Persari River had survived the anger of the djinn and began to rebuild.

1600 years ago
Caliph Leonarus Trismoira has done the impossble and united the lands of both the Upper and Lower Persari. As the soothsayers had predicted, he would be remembered for eons to come. But his work was not done, he would build a new city for a new kingdom. And so the city of Djedbura was founded.