Humans

Primarily found on the continent of Tol, most humans live sedentary inside of fortified towns and cities, dividing themselves into competing kingdoms.

The perception among other races is that humans are by their very nature unruly and temperamental, owing to their long history of interhuman wars. The dispersal of humans across Tol saw all kinds of differing societies and cultures taking shape, but with this stratification came fear, jealousy, distrust and disdain. Wracked by conflict, human kingdoms rose and fell with the leaders who forged them.

Beyond this, however, humans are as ingenious as they are resilient, time and again overcoming such cataclysms as disease, famine, great floods and earthquakes to rise again, stronger than before. Theirs are a people of learning; quick studies and eager adopters of new ideas and technologies.

### Appearance

Humans have a wide variation in their appearances, with a wealth of different skin, hair, and eye colours, as well as different heights and builds, though often those originating from a particular region will share common characteristics.

### History

Humans are not native to Tol, despite the near universal belief (particularly espoused within the ethnocentric Lysantine Sultanate) that they are. In fact, Humans migrated up into Tol from Ekuka over a period of around a thousand years, gradually pushing further and further northward to displace the Thal. Though originally an expression of human tendency to expand into new territories, later migrations -which were much larger - came about as a consequence of the advancing Oxylo Jungle, which was gradually taking over more and more of the savannahs of Ekuka.

#### Thal

The first human tribes migrating into Tol encountered the remains of the Thal; sparsely populated towns and villages of the much larger and physically imposing humanoids.

Although the two peoples initially gave each other a wide birth, as one Thal warrior easily the equal of four humans, the Thal occupied most of the best locations for settlements (areas around running water sources with ample natural protection and abundant food sources). Inevitably, this led to conflict as humans sought to sieze these lands for themselves.

Over several hundred years, the much more populous humans displaced the native Thal, sometimes claiming their existing settlements, other times destroying, or sometimes just ignoring and building villages of their own.

Eventually, the Thal were relegated to the far north of Tol, with humans claiming the lion's share of the continent.

### Society

For a long time, humans as a whole were easily displaced by other races, forming ephemeral kingdoms that are better discribed as glorified high chiefdoms.

The advent of larger, more stable human empires that have come to define the face of Tol, can be credited to the arrival of Faun from across the Bara'al Sea. Their superior means of organisation, administration, and means of generating agricultural surplus revolutionised human society, culminating in the establishment of both the Lysantine Sultanate and Ioric League.

Outside of these empires are a slew of petty kingdoms of varying sizes, some little more than a single large city.

* Ashera
* Calis - The powerful City of Necromancers
* The Island of Sarkos
* The Free Cities - Inependent cities forming a border between the Sultanate & Galen League)
* Catrolingas

In addition, some humans still live in tribal societies that do not subscribe the the wider political inclinations of post-Faun Human civilisation.

* Sabilites & Saeafineis