Wanderlings

A wanderling was a frequent motif in Indrateran folklore. Simply put, a wanderling was a figure who had no home or people, and wandered the world. Oftentimes, they were immortal or long-lived, and sometimes grappled with madness or great foes. Some had been exiled or cast out of their home, others were searching for it or had forgotten it entirely. It was a prominent motif assigned to many legendary and notable figures, both ancient and modern-day.
== Names ==
The Euluska term for a wanderling was a ljemiuris /ʎɛm.ˈjuɾ.ɪs/, meaning 'errant ghost'. In Old Rakki, they were called heiðurbarða, meaning 'reclaimers'. 
== Notable Wanderlings ==
* Luska Fair-Hair - the original wanderling. Eponymous hero of the Euluskan people from their oldest epic poetic saga, she was exiled from her home upon the Horn after being framed by mages for allegedly killing a prominent nobleman to wed his daughter. She wandered the world for a hundred and one years before returning home. 
* Kassius Komitatus - an 18th century RTE Lyskeiän wanderling; one of the first Euluskans to meet the Rakki people, he travelled the length of the entire world to find them. 
* Rychárd Dread - once an Old Rakki raider who fought in the 18th century RTE, he drank from the Fountain of Youth and became immortal, living in his new home of Kol Darim. Though he fell in love with a Lyskeiän traveller named Lareya, he accidentally killed her with a bow when trying to fight a pack of wolves in a thicket. A fellow noble later accused him of killing her, so Rychárd killed him and fled, becoming a wanderling for nineteen centuries, drinking blood to subsist. His travels are documented in his memento journal. Before returning home to Kol Darim in the 200s alongside the Euluskan expeditions, he had loved and lost, he killed, he travelled, and he even came to blows with another wanderling:
* Crow Woman - a fallen angel wrapped in the bloody remnants of her black feathered wings, she was highly amnesiac and did not remember her home or her people. She came to blows with Rychárd several times trying to stop him killing and drinking the blood of innocents. She was smothered with the Shroud of Heinrich around the turn of the sixteenth century, but freed in the twentieth century by the Wildecards.
* Fira Nazar, a writer who spent her entire life in the early 16th century wandering from every continent on Indratera, chronicling it all.
* Karrus Weyloran - they had lost everything, and spent their entire life in the late 15th and 16th century trying to reclaim Xánwyr.
* To a degree, Trajan the Terrible was a wanderling; in possession of the legendary relic Xánwyr, he was forced to flee to the ends of the earth to avoid his rival Karrus getting their hands on the blade, and Trajan ended up wandering from the Danderillon to Bracken to the Eldskar to finally the Kaserini mountains of Rakkimar for years, nomadic, in the harshest place on earth. His wandering lasted from 1490 to 1552, when he was relieved of the blade and killed by Sir Luke Stormwind
* And possibly, but less so, Arnu Waldenstromm was a wanderling for sixty years; though she was probably slightly more of an 'exile' than 'lost'. A genius inventor, her work was accidentally responsible for the Violet Catastrophe that decimated a quarter of Datria's population in 1490. She fled to Vorgasen, a tiny rural village, and restlessly worked on electrical inventions until in the 1560s, after the murder of Henri "The Astonishing" Anžir, several mercenaries came to her and brought her work to light, bringing electricity to Indratera.
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