Kelims

Kelims are the human ethnic group or tribal family that make up the overwhelming majority of Kelimaria’s population. The region is named after them and they are also often called “Kelimarians”; thus that term may either mean actual inhabitants of the Kelimarian lands (no matter what their ethnic origin), or people of Kelim descent (no matter where they live). The peoples of Azhir and the Western Isles, the Medrenesse, and Ojaum also have varying degrees of Kelim blood in their veins. 
Kelims tend to have tan and ruddy skin, sometimes almost dusky, with curly hair that is often red but may also be blond or dark. Many find them similar in appearance to Uremites, leading scholars to speculate that these two widely separated groups may have descended from common tribal roots in the primordial days when humans spread out across Orithea. If this is true, the ancestral Kelims and Uremites would have diverged from one another millennia ago as the former headed west from the Sarpic Seas and the latter migrated north and east. 
Kelims are Tuvai-speakers (with a particular accent and dialect that others easily recognize as Kelimarian) and almost universally adherents of Utara-Vaati.