Ela-Salu

The Ela-Salu are a mysterious people, who inhabit a single kingdom in Soronipheä at the northern end of the Keisrasai, the Black Serpent of Saiän.
According to Saiännic texts the Ela-Salu first came to the attention of the Saiännic world when unknown corpses on reed rafts began floating down the river from the northern forests, around the year 270. One chronicler wrote that:
In the eastern river, reports have been coming in of very richly decorated coffins containing fully dressed corpses wrapped in colourful linen blankets. The women wear colourful headscarves while the men have braided hair. Some of the men are also coming with beautifully ornamented axes. The coffins are made as small rafts, with decorated symbols depicting woodland animals on.
An expedition from Tālmoä some twenty years later reached the city, and discovered that the Ela-Salu were the people. The city was called Caxia (Saiännic: Cacsamoä), and to their surprise they discovered many Saiännic influences. Whilst the Ela-Salu themselves were described as "a bronze-skinned people with broad faces, slanted eyes and dark red hair and beards", the royal family are recorded as possessing "clearly Saiännic features".
Other evidence of Saiännic cultural influence was visible. The king of Caxia wears a ceremonial mask like the face of an owl, and their priests were named 'Sázi', who are described as medics and "keepers of three Saiännic scrolls". The city too is built in a style resembling that in Saiän, especially around the harbour area, with lots of buildings raised up on stilts sunk into the water. That they had adopted the Saiännic custom of placing the dead in the river to find the sea was further proof of the influence of Paranid culture.
How Caxia came to exist remains a mystery that puzzles Tālmoänni scholars. There are very few other Ela-Saluni tribes neighbouring the kingdom, and the Saiännic world is some distance to the south. It is hypothosised that they are some hitherto unknown race of Gholan, who encountered a band of Saiänni fleeing the Beivei and came to be ruled by them somehow.
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