Vards

The Vards are a distinct human ethnic group who make up the population of Varadeska (also called the Vardic Highlands), which is their ancestral homeland. They speak their own language and practice their own idiosyncratic religion based around a druidic cult. Their history and culture are marked by a centuries-long tradition of stubborn independence and resistance to domination by outside invaders, especially XXXXXX and preceding Dranurian kingdoms to the south, whom the Vards consider their age-old foes.
Most Vards live in the Vardic Highlands, but there is also a population of "lowland Vards," the Jairavarda, living in Ojaum to the west, and scattered Vardic or Vardo-Dranurian minorities in northern Dranuria.