Vreigardt

Over a journey of three fair days, we come to the southern Vreilands. They are so named in the tongue of the natives of the Danderillon, who call themselves the Vreigardts. This word in their tongue means Free People, and it is they who gave the land its name too, for Danderillon is but a Luskanisation of their name Dană Rellein, meaning Land of Plenty. The Vreigardt peoples are fair and strong and tall, used to a nomadic life of living off of their land. They ride beasts of great size, tamed from their lands. The hardiest of this is the Great Tuatara, or in their tongue the grozătuatara, a giant lizard large enough to be ridden by three men. Its scales are thick and green, so strong that when one dies the folk make armour out of it, weaving it into a shirt. The second great beast is the ărochs (Aurochs), a fierce kind of huge bull that could reach some twenty hands high. The ărochs are too large to be ridden, but a single one could pull a plow meant for six oxen. The freefolk hunt with bows and curved swords, and are experts in riding and tracking. It is said a Vreigardt trapper could know if a single blade of grass had been broken by the lightest fleeing quarry. - Fira Nazar, 'The Travels'.
The Vreigardts, lit. Free People were the the natives of The Danderillon. They had a rich cultural mythology and history. They once inhabited the Danderillon east to west. However, after the early few centuries' conquest by the Lusken Empire, they lost some of their lands on the coasts. 
They believed in three gods: Dó, the Mother, and Tenguaahizar and Ulzaniwyllar, the sun and moon. 
'Vreigardt' as a broad term refers to mostly any of the natives of the Danderillon (excluding the Highlanders, Darim, Nemyrans and Boarwood Enclave). By demographic they were a large part human, with orc, gnome, goblinoid (goblin, bugbear and hobgoblin), kobold, wood elf, and more (troll, olog, etc). Basically a super varied peoples. 
They have had a long history of fighting back against the Luskens. In the 12th century, a Vreigardt army led by Laszlo Vhander II besieged and captured Datria in the Dead Man's Siege. They occupied the city for five years until a Lusken navy force expelled them. 
The Vreigardts and Lusken Empire had several wars in the late 1400s and early 1500s.
There were many distinct groups of Vreigardts - the biggest being the Sword Vreigardts,Tarkas Vreigardts and Bloody Vreigardts. They spoke dialects of Limba Vrei,. It was a flowing language full of simple vowel sounds and rough consonants, with a complex case and adjective system, and it was enclitic. It had lots of z's and digraphs.
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