Children of the Swamp

The Eastern Swamp is inhabited by the First People, who long ago fell into inbred decadence. Their numbers are few, and they live in foul hovels and nests, which usually lie beneath the towering roots of the giant mangrove trees.
First People settlements are marked by grisly cross-poles, from which hang many desiccated heads. Surprisingly, these heads do not belong to victims of the First People - they are actually their own deceased relatives, whose spirits are captured after death and bound inside their heads. Amongst these people, reunion with the River of Souls is seen as a terrible thing - a loss of tribal and clan affiliation and an unwelcome union with hated foreign people.
The First People are an ill-favored race, with very pale skin and limp, dark hair. Because their population is so small, and they only breed with one another, they tend to look alike, and outsiders can rarely tell one from another.
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