Lithranorians

The Lithranorians are a people from the prehistory of rathnir that originally inhabited the region of land between Lake Neriele to the south and Mar Lithos to the north. Not much is known about their prehistory, as they seemed to have not left many artifacts, or those that they did are hidden. eventually the people organized and created several important cities. 
== History ==
=== Early history ===
The people were originally called the Λίθοσ'όμ (lithos'hom) meaning "forest people" but eventually became the Lithranorians after founding the first city, Λίθράνορ (lithranor) meaning "forest city", on the shores of Mar Lithos. This city grew secluded and protective of their land, lying low and staying unknown. After decades of the city growing steadily, it eventually became to large for all of the people, and the high walls kept them from expanding quickly. So the Lithranorians had to colonize neighboring lands.
=== Colonization ===
The first colony created was the small village of New Locking, named after on of the old high chiefs of Lithranor. The people of this city eventually became disconnected from their relatives and resorted to speaking travelers tongue rather than their own. The second city, and the only one you can visit today, was Θερα (thera) meaning "earth", and was a settlement in modern day Erini. The land claimed by them was covered in the ruins of Tarnwick and the corruption caused by that people. in the modern times they have since cleansed the land of most of the corruption. The third and last major colony was Αθέλλος (athellos) meaning "harbour town" or "port town", and was founded once the neighboring thaidian city of Alessandrea had originally collapsed (later reformed). The city was well fortified and had a massive library, in which the Lithranorians discovered many works of literature which influenced a short golden age of thinking. A new religion was founded in Lithranor because of this called Triantanism, which is still practiced by several Lithranorians to this day. Athellos led to a new type of influence in the surrounding area, a sort of "lithranorizing", which spread many features of their culture to the surrounding areas. There were also smaller colonies and villages in the area that were not so important.
=== Destruction of the Western Cities ===
Eventually, Lithranor could not stay quiet forever and made its existence known. The government of the Empire of Escharia in control of the lands at the time did not take kindly to their existence, so they decided to take the cities. Diplomacy was attempted but failed, and it was too late. They were outnumbered completely. Overnight, Athellos was taken swiftly by the Escharians and soon after the Lithranorians fled their walls to Thera, which at the time was part of Yimmu-Audal. Lithranor and New Locking were immediately flattened to the ground and Athellos was remade into Alessandrea. The Lithranorians, devastated and distraught, searched desperately for a home, but had to stay in Thera for several years. One member of the city was of Yimmu-Audal royal blood, and eventually got his people a home in Anoshphey, where the people stay to this day. They have plans which have not been carried out yet but are being waited on to be fulfilled.
== Language ==
The language of the Lithranorians has many names, but is mainly called Lithranorian by people. The native name is Όμωσλίνι (homoslini) meaning "language of people" and is spoken mainly by the refugees from Old Lithranor. The writing they use is very sacred not only to them but the Triantanists as a whole and at one point was used by the Malestines. It is suspected to be an earlier form of the travelers tongue writing that continued to be used by certain peoples throughout rathnir up until modern day, whether for cultural or religious reasons. The grammar is not well documented but there is some amount of vocabulary. 
One thing to know if attempting to read the language is that the ' can be used in three ways. One, to aspirate a plosive. Two, as a glottal fricative /h/. And three, to separate letters that may confuse. An example of this last one is to separate T and ν in the word βέτ'νας (vetnas) so it does not become "vedas". Other letters not included on here include Χ (ksi) and Ψ (psi). The usage of letters in this script change drastically depending on language.
Other than this the Lithranorians like to keep their language a secret. Hopefully some day linguists uncover those secrets.
Phonology
 	bilabial	dental	alveolar	post alv.	velar	glottal
plosive 	Π Μπ 	 	T Tν 	 	Κ Γ 	
affricate 	 	 	 	Τζ Δζ 	 	
nasal 	M 	 	v 	 	 	
fricative 	Φ Β 	θ Δ 	Σ Ξ 	Ζ Ζν 	 	'
tap 	 	 	Ρ 	 	 	
lateral approx.	 	 	Λ 	 	 	
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