Eyjanic People

### Regions with significant populations

Widonia, Leirhofn, Hameentra Geitland,Commonwealth of Oceania, Kaldesia, Akrifa, Ezhara, Lappenkoski, Other former Cynedrycan colonies

### Languages

Widonian, Hofnian, Venesian Sautharkurish, Gerishian, Geitlandic

### Religions

Venesian Catholicism, Venesian Paganism (historically), Eyjanic Paganism

The **Eyjanic People** are a major ethnic group originating on the continent of Eyjan. Originally consisting of tribal peoples spread throughout Eyjan, the Venesians, a western Eyjanic people, would conquer the continent as well as nearby Eporan, creating the first Eyjanic diaspora. The collapse of the Venesian Empire and subsequent rise of the Cynedrycan Empire and its later global colonial empire led to the second great Eyjanic diaspora, with members of the ethnic group settling across the globe and bringing their Catholicism to new regions.

## History

### Early history

The Eyjanians are a major branch of the Eyjanic-Eporean linguistic and cultural group. In the third millenium BC, Proto Eyjanic-Eporean was the shared language between the ancestors of the Eyjanics, Guthics, Sklavenoi, Celts, and other related ethnic groups. The Dehmosian people are the earliest Eyjanic-Eporans and originated in the present day Hezporan Steppe, specifically in Western Hezrana. As a steppe people, they branched off into several distinct migrations in the same millennium. The eastern group migrated to Eyjan, the western group migrated to Eporan, and the southern group migrated to South East Hezrana. Because the northern Dehmosians migrated to the previously uninhabited Eyjan, many modern day Eyianics within Eyjan still retain pure Hezranian ancestry, whereas Eporans are mixed with the Hezranian Dehmosians and the old Eporan people's.

The Eyjanian migrants had no contact with the outside world from Eyjan, and eventually developed their own l

languages and beliefs. Proto-Eyjanic was a language which briefly existed in Eyjan, however quickly fragmented into multiple tongues as the Proto-Eyjanic peoples lost contact with one another in the new continent and drifted further apart. Within several hundred years, Proto-Eyjanic tribes had reached the relatively mild climate of the Erensdur Peninsula.

   While various cereals could be grown in southern Eyjan, the climate proved much too bitter for large scale agriculture everywhere except Hameentra and the Erensdur Peninsula, and farming was restricted to subsistence agriculture. It was only in the more mild regions where early agrarian societies were able to properly form. In the third millenium BC, the Forfaðir Culture prospered in Southwestern Eyjan. The Bronze Age began in Western Eyjan around 3100 BC. The breeding of more climate resilient crops allowed other regions in Eyjan to settle down and develop proper cultures.

The earliest cities in Western Eyjan began to develop around 3500 BC. With more and more people living together in these cities, early civilizations would begin to rise, beginning with the Fornveroldian Civilization in the early third millenium BC.

### Fornveroldian Civilization

The Fornveroldians were the first advanced civilization in Eyjan, and are credited for creating the first written language on the continent. The civilization began to appear around 2700 BC in the southern Erensdurian Peninsula on the island of Fornverold (from which the culture gets its name), collapsing around 1600 BC for still unknown reasons. While neither Fornveroldian Hieroglyphics nor the Fornveroldian Script have yet to be deciphered, the remains of palaces and throne rooms indicate that Fornveroldian government was a form of monarchy.

### Alunisian Civilization

The Alunisian people resided in eastern Erensdur. The Alunisian civilization appears on the historical record by around 1700 BC. The civilization is known for its urban organization and writing system. The Alunisians had a profound impact on the later Venesians, who adopted the the Alunisuan script and elements of its culture.