History of the Heimfolk

TRANSLATION: First three verses of the "Song of Akshold"
From the southern lands we came, the realms of Earramar, Ionorion, Eklarhia, Braexedelar and The Dying Nexus / Fleeing corruption and in search of the purest vision of the Old Ones / We forged north, looking to found new kingdoms ///
Somewhere between the land of the tall radiant ones and their smaller-but-still-tall descendants / We found some few footholds where we built new halls and homesteads, found a new home / A mountain, a forest and a plain formed an upside-down triangle, a new realm for the People of Home (Heimfolk) ///
Thus were born the strongholds of Felbrodir, Viorheim and Dvergashtol / Established on the wisdom of the Old Ones, we raised our children according to their principles / And looked to rebuild what had been lost in the Kingdoms to the South ///

The Heimfolk are known to have migrated north from kingdoms to the south of Farveld, which have been scantly explored by humans and Callenthi. These kingdoms are wild, overrun places where many ruins and dangerous woods cover a land once ruled by a glorious Heimfolk empire stretching back many, many millennia (some have said, as old and possibly older than the Callenthi Empire - records of this have largely been lost, although some trace may be found in those ruins through hieroglyphs and other markings). The border between Southern Farveld and these unchartered lands to the south is known as The Reach, and the staunch order of warriors who defend that border (from the evils that attempt to venture further north than they ought to) are known as The Guardians of the Reach.
The Heimfolk who would journey north and found the triumvirate of settlements known as Felbrodir, Viorheim and Dvergashtol were in some ways the last remnants of that glorious civilisation, the rest having fallen into corruption and ruin. Ancient kings allowed kingdoms to run to seed, overrun by creatures from the Nameless Depths and hordes of Grakthal and other goblin-kin. Foul creatures known as orcs were known to roam these lands, inferior cousins to the mighty Grakthal of the Deorvold.
Now the Heimfolk think of these lands with sadness and nostalgia, lamenting the loss of those great kingdoms and the small triangle of land they now inhabit. The creatures who hold sway over their ancestral homeland will not journey this far north for fear of the "Tall Effulgent Ones" - The Callenthi. Indeed, the narrow bottleneck that leads to the Southern Reach has long been defended by a staunch alliance of Callenthi and Heimfolk known as the Guardians of the Reach, and despite attempts by various ambitious forces of orc, ogre, tanarukk, bladeling, and many other humanoids to push forth into Farveld, they have always been beated back by the Guardians.