Nazhmorhathveras

The Nazhmorhathveras, or the People of the Night Sky, inhabit the Evressai Steppes.

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The Nazhmorhathveras are a nomadic group of people who travel in groups of twenty to thirty. They appear to be goblins. They “do not build, nor fortresses nor towns nor even roads. They live in tents”. They appear to have family houses, like the elves and goblins of Barizhan do, and the houses will sometimes meet, but they can be gone quickly if needed.

The Nazhmorhathveras are at war with the Ethuveraz. The Evressai Wars began during the reign of Varevesena, when the people of the Steppes refused to “to acknowledge Varevesena as their emperor or to pay tithes to the empire. The wars had continued on and off for more than eighty years because the barbarians could not drive the elves out, nor take the Anmur’theileian, the great fortress that had been under siege before it was even built, and the elves could not catch the [Nazhmorhathveras].” Varenechibel IV supposedly made efforts to achieve peace, and the Nazhmorhathveras refused. Before the Anmur'theileian was built, they apparently preyed on the towns of the Badlands.

Their holy people are witches, and are always albino. They are highly valued.

They treat Memory of Death or Carrion-Bones, the site upon which the elven Anmur'theileian is built, as a holy site, where they leave their death to be stripped by the vultures and nazhcreian. There is also a rite of adulthood, where members of the Nazhmorhathveras “spend three days and three nights atop the rock with the dead.”

People

 * Nazhcreis Dein