For more than two thousand years, the descendants
of the Dorns and the colonial Sarcosans have lived
together as two cultures unifified by military, commercial,
and royal alliance under the single banner of
the nation of Erenland. In that time, they have also
become kin through friendship and family. From the
southern coast of the Sea of Pelluria to the shores of
the Ardune sea, the people no longer see themselves
as Dorns or Sarcosans, but rather as Erenlanders,
with their own distinct cultural identity.
These people vary widely in height, build, and coloring;
a transitional people between both Erenland’s Dornish
and Sarcosan heritage as well as its past and future.
Erenlanders are the true children of their kingdom, a
people born of two ancient traditions but owing loyalty
instead to one nation. Though difffferent settttlements,
and even difffferent families, hold more strongly to some
Sarcosan or Dornish traditions, most Erenlanders see
their own culture as something truly distinct.
Erenlanders have long been leftft to their own wit
and strength in settttling the central plains, resulting in
a craftfty and inventive people with independent and
pragmatic natures. This has served them well under
the Shadow; with their prized pragmaticism and stoic
resolve, they have been betttter able than the other
human cultures to simply adapt and carry on.
Though the lack of cultural restriction means Erenlanders
have greater social freedom, that freedom is
not without greater social cost. Whereas respect for the
past and hatred of the Shadow bind the Dornish houses
and Sarcosan liege lords to their people, the Erenlanders
have no such guiding lights or sense of unity. It is
yet to be seen whether the Erenlanders of the Last Age
will devolve into a directionless, broken people or will
rise above the suspicions and betrayal of their time.