Westermen

The westermen are the dominant human population of the Western Lowlands and mostly fall under the rule of the Kingdom of Cedrian. The other westerman state of note is the Grelayne Commonwealth which remained independant after Cedrian's unification of the other tribes

History
Nearly half a millenium prior to the crafting of the Covenant, the westerman tribes came screaming from the depths of the Shadewoods. Tribes of mighty warriors with their spiritcaller shamans attempted an invasion of the Duarendales and would have succeeded, but for the leadership of Materas Valdar I, who rallied the dwarven clans and repulsed the barbarians.

Shattered by their defeat at the hands of the dwarves, the loose tribal confederation collapsed and the westermen tribes settled in the Lowlands south of the Duarendales. The next eight hundred years would be dominated by infighting between the tribes. Bordered by the dwarves in the north, the Alvar in the south east and (after a few hundred years) the Garabans in the deep south the westermen were hemmed in, with little opportunity for expansion. Some settlements were founded along the northern coast, on the fringes of the dwarven realms but they would not come to prominence until after the reign of Cedrian.

While the early years of contact between the westermen and their Garaban southern neighbours were fraught (the westermen's natural response was raid and pillage), over the centuries a healthy cultural exchange took place. The Grelaynes in the south were the most ardent incorporators of Garaban ideas, in particular their democratic notions, but Garaba's greatest influence would be over the first king of the Westermen, Cedrian.

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