Best known from the Warriors of the Sands tournament, where each people's fighters enter the arena in turn.
Of the Tricoasts of Sitraa. Light-footed and veiled, riding small agile horses standing upright, fighting with slings. Marked always by the hidden triangle-and-star.
"Sons of the bear," from the frozen bastions of Galea. Pale, white-haired, fighting bare-skinned but for bear-hide, wielding twin-bladed axes. Called "the Skinners."
From the hidden heights of the Murkwoods, "men of the dew, whisperers of leaf and root." Silent, dropping into the arena from ropes and heights, fighting with twin knives of Bleshtean steel. Originally Bleshtean, scattered when their kingdom was erased.
Outcasts from the forgotten canyons of Musselheim, beyond the Barrier, skin-branded in ancient runes.
Afar nationalist radicals who believe in the unity of Nijel and Sinji, calling themselves the Afars Jibarins, though people associate them more with Sinji, since Sinjians have darker skin than the Nijilese.
Peaceful giants who live in Galea beyond Britha, and on the shores of the Black Sea. Salem Al Borhamy, the previous Emir of the Gundartag, was one of them.
A peaceful people whose rebellion was crushed, a history worth remembering rather than a footnote.
Inhabitants of Gobarad.
The scattered people of erased Bleshtea. Some became the Nada Wanderers; others became the Sa'ir, the Blazealous Militants who vandalize Mikusha.
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