Ashleen

The population of Iocanthos are a mixed
group; some are outcasts or refugees from
elsewhere dumped on the world by Imperial
authorities and others are the descendants of
former convicts shipped in previous centuries.
The largest group are known as the Ashleen,
an indigenous clan of humans that predate
the sector’s founding. The Ashleen are a
warlike, semi-nomadic people who freely mix
the primitive skills and lifestyles of hunter-gatherers
with imported firearms and scavenged
machinery.
Amongst the Ashleen, the elders known as Death Singers (a title that has a literal meaning as “one who sings for those who have been killed”) practice spatalamancy: divination of fate and the future by the use of skin and bones.
When Saint Drusus visited the world during the early crusades, he and his 2nd Army Group fought against the Ashleen and defeated them within a week's time. Once, the eldar corsair known as Ulthyr Ellarion visited a clan of Ashleen upon their celebration of the Feast of All Battles and reveled with them. When they all fell asleep, his crew kidnapped all of the clan, save one, who went on to spread word of what happened to his people.
==Important Ashleen==
*Esha Raine the Death Singer - A respected Ashleen elder and folk-healer
*Warchief Kos’ke - A local petty warlord of the Ashleen whose clan is allied to Stern Hope