Eskayeds

**Eskayedic peoples**, shortly **Eskayeds**, was an ancient **ethnic group**, endemically living in Eskay Creek region taigas east from **Nordkapp**, once a large and developed culture, currently known mainly from archeological research and from legends spread by the world of mouth by remnants of their descendants that have been found deep in taigas and cured from zombified state which prevented them to pass away completely.

## Crafts

Traditionally, they were forest gatherers and farmers (sweet berries, wheat, beetroots, carrot, potatoes - various seeds, dried roots, straws, and wooden hoes found conserved under volcanic stone by archeological excavations), woodworkers, breeders of farm animals (chicken, sheep, cows), bear leather hunters, fishermen (later sailors), beekeepers and honey+beewax products manufacturers, coal miners (who were finding bits of gold occassionally, as also shown by archeological research), potters, traders, and after their discoveries in fields of metallurgy and building materials including float and stained glass also copper, iron and gold molders, toolsmiths (iron axes and shovels found by archeological excavations, some of them brought by deadites risen from their graves), masons, and builders. It is believed that those new industrial technologies were imported to their community by wandering traders. **Eskayeds** were also masterful dyers, and their bear leather, beewax and stained glass products, and building materials, were often looking fancily colorful.

## Gold in Eskay Creek

When gold was discovered in taigas of Eskay Creek also by foreigners, and gold rush broke out, **Eskayeds** knew their homeland very well, and they did not believe, there was enough gold to pay the effort, so they were immune to the rush, and instead they were making profits from foreign prospectors buying various stuff from them while looking for gold. Stuff like food, tools, building and repairing materials and services, and especially **Eskayedic** colorful bear leather clothing became very popular those days, although bad-mouths say that they sometimes faked bear leather using cow or llama ones from old and dead animals, and that wandering traders were selling their weak, old, dying, or dead llamas to **Eskayeds** cheaply for this purpose.

But then after the discovery of the Nether, global gold rush pandemic hit the world during the **Nether Colonization** era (see 🏛 history), and that was too much also for mentioned gold rush immunity of **Eskayeds**. Like many other communities in 🌐 Foolandia, **Eskayeds** built their nether portals as well, and started to undertake conquesting expeditions into the Nether to get the gold and other valuable resources like netherite, and they achieved their peak of wealth in that era. They became so rich, that some of them were wearing golden gear (clothes, footwear, horse harnesses, tools, weapons). Trading, shipbuilding, and seafaring were also flourishing in their in that era, and not just gold, but also emeralds were, as confirmed by archeological excavations, used as a currency and for decoration.

## Settlements

### Eskaytiti

Natural historical center of **Eskayedic** population and culture was **Eskaytiti**, of its time rich and prosperous (and of course colorful) rural town with its center at these coordinates:

Eskaytiti geographical location

**Eskaytiti** and surrounding homeland of **Eskayeds** was from the most part destroyed in the **Era of** **Great Cataclysms** (see 🏛 history), wooden houses were burnt or taken by the flood, only trail ruins of the downtown built from various types of bricks and terractota materials (crafted from clay and mud from the river, and from lush caves beneath, discovered during archeological excavations), and harbor ruins built from stone brick materials, have been preserved, and are currently being reconstructed by **EskayTiti Cultural Heritage Restoration (ETCHeR)** non-profit organization established by 🧊⛵ Fram Expedition and led by **Admiral Litke** (other members: DemonBaby, HunterrF). Harbor ruins were restored quite easily, although still containing uncooled magma, but the ancient downtown was the harder issue, while it collapsed below the river level during the earthquake in the **Era of Great Cataclysms**, and was flooded and covered by deposits of gravel and dirt, and finally covered by cooling lava from the volcano spontaneously appeared above the river. So it needed to be first isolated from the river, and then all deposited material excavated while maintaining the isolation of the ruins from the river.

### Huldatiti

Ancient settlement, buried underground (probably also as an aftermath of tectonic and volcanic activity accompanied by global warming in Era of Great Cataclysms), discovered by **Admiral Litke** 2024.01.14, and excavations started and finished the very same day thanks to helpers HunterrF and DemonBaby. Hidden reservoir of amethyst also discovered right under one of ends of buried settlement.

## Disturbing Ornaments

Pottery sherds with surprising ornaments were also found and reconstructed during excavations. They are probably referring to some **Eskayedic** mythology, and are currently being researched to be explained, and currently are being considered as kind of warning pictograms:

Mosster depiction on these sherds, which are much older than desert pyramids located in other parts of the world, is disproving this theory.