Boralisins

Considered an extinct race, the Boralisin people may
have been some of the first humans on Mithilia and were undoubtedly the first on the
Boralis continent. Their is no evidence or blood lineage of any surviving Boralisins and the group may have died completly but some in the northern regions of Mithilia claim themselves to be descendents of the ancient people that may have once had a fully developed nation.

Boralisins are considered to be hearty and large folk like the Mwarokam of Iona and their seems to be a good amount of these sort of people across the northern parts of Mithilia but may also be a result of Mwarokam and Hokani people spreading into new lands over time. Nevertheless, those that claim themselves Boralisin usually do so because they are able to show their aptitude for the cold north and live comfortably there unlike many of the other human beings from around the world.

Some people of the small settlements of
northern Boralis and even in parts of Louradia have taken the national identity of Boralisin to avoid
being claimed by Louradia as they had settled before the establishment of
the Louradian nation on the continent. Sometimes even Louradians are referred to
as Boralisins but few identify themselves as such.

## Myth of the First People

Believing it to
only be a gulf of glaciers and ice sheets like off the western coast of Boralis, A Hartham settler party seeking a new home during the Period of Destuction, sailed to the northeastern coast of the
continent trying to establish the northernmost settlement in Mithilia and found
the **Shattered Gulf**. They sailed further into the gulf to discover large ruins of a fortress and even a
settlement not far from it that may have been joined at one point. The ruins
were very large and spread across different ice masses that were later
discovered to be actual pieces of land only covered in snow and ice. Breaks in
the castle walls and settlement buildings showed that the earth had literally
split the structures in half and apart from each other which gave the
impression that the gulf itself may have been part of the Boralis land mass and
the ground sunk and shattered into the sea.

The ruins were completely deserted with only a
few human remains which meant that the people may have left before the
destruction of their home or had been claimed by the waters of the gulf. The
castle was like no other seen before. Massive compared to Magnamian structure,
it seemed like giant humanoids inhabited them before. The few artifacts left
showed what must have been an advanced culture as well giving evidence to one
legend that states that it was home to the gods long before the humans entered
Mithilia. Some northern factions claim to be descendants of the Boralisin
people but there is no certainty in that. It is believed that the gulf
collapsed during the Period of Destruction and some Irelati writings agree with
this as they may have met some of the survivors in their expeditions as they
looked for a new home. One source claims that the Irelati had even offered them
to join their people but they were unwilling and sought their own homeland as
the Irelati had done an Age ago. This is the only recorded meeting with
Boralisins. Another theory is that it was where the Ionan humans originated
from or may have spread to since the people that lived there were of a giant
stature.

It
wouldn’t be until later that it is concluded that the land mass the ruins sat
on was as high as the cliffs that surrounded much of the gulf and most likely
had hundreds of lengths of ice under the ground on top a body of water that
makes up the gulf. The gulf ice may have collapsed all at once falling into the
sea, bringing down the ground and structures all at once but it is more likely
that it melted over time until finally the ground was too heavy for the ice to
keep it all together. The extremely cold weather of the Period of Destruction
may have re-froze it but all is uncertain as there was no recorded histories
found in the ruins.