#odhriags

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RHÛN REGIONS MOODBOARDS - [III] Gathod

Gathod (Ul. ‘Land of Passage’).This area was the plains between the Inland Sea of Rhûn and the Ered Lithui mountains and one of the main regions of the Ulgath Easterling tribe, and especially the Odhriags.

The Odhriags were an easterling People in southern Rhûn, close to the Mountains of Mordor.

Like the Asdriags, the Odhriags also have in them a measure of Ioriag blood. In their case, however, Ioriag ancestry has been combined with the Aharic traditions of the Otyassi,forming a unique cultural mix. The Odhriags prize independence from foreign influence as their greatest asset,and guard their lands jealously from encroaching neighbors.Their history is largely one of resistance. They have consistently resisted attempts by servants of the Shadow to bring them under the influence of the Dark Lord. They have resisted the momentum of mass-migrations out of the east,which has threatened to displace them several times throughout the ages. They resisted the mandates of Gondor,which demanded an opening of their lands for the passage of Minalcar and Vidugavia's armies in T.A. 1247. Though they paid dearly for this defiance, they were never wholly conquered by the western army, and have since grown to reclaim the ranges that were stripped from them.The Odhriag homeland lies along the northern slopes of the Ered Lithui, between the Warwater and the Surubeki watersheds. While much of Odhriag culture comes from their Ioriag forefathers, they are also the only group of Easterlings with their own set of formalized laws. These laws, known as the Vasagh, have their roots in the ancient Aharic laws which were brought into Rhun by the Otyassi in the Second Age.The laws were again formalized by Khorgul Hotun at the end of the Second Age. This occurred after the defeat of Sauron's army at Dagorlad. In celebration of the end of Mordor's oppressive treatment of the Odhriags, Khorgul had the Vasagh carved into the sheer side of a peak which towers over the main Odhriag settlement of Khurvasagh (Od. "Placeof the Law").

The Odhriags were subjugated by the Pultai Dynasty from Kykurian kyn and became part of the Balchoth.

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PALISOR REGIONS MOODBOARDS - [III] Nûrad

Nûrad was a somewhat rich, warm, hilly land located east of the northern tip of the Ered Harmal. Mordor and wide Khand Gap lay to the west. The Talathrant rose here. The Nennûrad was said to be the birthplace of the great river.

Given its wealth of freshwater and exceptionally strategic location, Nûrad was considered a prized territory. Its fierce, Nûradja-speaking residents were constantly threatened and often found themselves under the yoke of the brutal Variags (Who regarded them renegades) or their more numerous Chey neighbors.

The Nûriags were a people of horse-nomads inhabiting the Land of Nûrad.They were descendants of the Ioriags of the Second Age and close relatives to the Asdriags, Odhriags, Magriags and especially the Variags and Núrniags.Later in the fourth Age their descendants were absorbed by the greater Ûsrievrim confederation.

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RHÛN REGIONS MOODBOARDS - [X] Pûstrava

The Pûstrava were arid foot hills reaching out east from the Ered Lithui serving as border between Gathod and northwestern Khand. It was the homeland of the Asdriag tribe.

The Asdriags were a collection of nine Ioriag tribes that dwelt for much of the Second Age among the arid foothills of the Pustrava and the Horseplains (land that they called “Asdriagien Lîtto”). In T.A. 1100 the tribes were forced to flee the region they called home because of mounting aggression from their stronger neighbors in Nurad and Khand.

In T.A.1640 these scattered bands inhabit areas of central Gathod and eastern Dor Rhûnen. The Gondorian military Cáno at Thorondir blamed much of the recent instability of Dor Rhunen's frontier on the Asdriags and has led repeated excursions into the plains to drive these tribes back into the east. The westernmost tribes were the most desperate of their kind, sheltering where possible in the foothills of the Dwergabergos and the Ered Lithui, living on what can be hunted or scavenged in the wild.

In Gathod, the Asdriags had enjoyed a bit more success. Some tribes had laid claim to lands on the fringes of Odhriag and Brygath ranges. Other than the occasional territorial squabble, these Asdriags dwelt for then in relative peace. They had settled into a stable migration cycle across their territory, which while poor by the standards of their neighbors, is a place of abundance in comparison to the Pustrava. In the end, however, the Asdriags were an Ioriag people and were sometimes wont to revert to the martial ways of their ancestors.

Odhriags, Donath, and Ibnotithuida alike casted a wary eye toward Asdriag lands. While their lack of numbers has never allowed them to dominate their neighbors,their fierce warriors were more than capable of wreaking significant mayhem in Gathod should the need arose.The easternmost Asdriag tribes dwelt in ranges near the city of Mistrand and had become entwined in the politics of that city. Nemol (the former King of Rhûn) had recognized in the traditional tribal priestesses (the "Hûriga") of the Asdriags a rare talent for witchcraft. As a result, Asdriag priestesses enjoyed some degree of respect within the city. Some of the more prominent priestesses had evenworked their way up through the ranks of Kerkassk's religious organization and then sat on the Osvoda's personal council in the city. There was then even the rumor of a union between the former Osvoda and Taran Karkuva, the chief priestess on the council. This coupled with the increasing reputation of Asdriag warriors within the Kharg Huka promised to raise the Asdriags to a new level of prominence in southeastern Rhûn.

The Asdriags were subjugated by the Pultai and became part of the Balchoth.

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RHÛN REGIONS MOODBOARDS - [XII] Kykurian Kyn

The Kykurian Kyn (D.S. "Black Land of the Black and Red Cryers") lay east of Rhûn, above the western banks of the Talathrant. A vast grassland characterized by intermittent collections of rolling hills, it was populated by a host of ever-shifting Ulgathig- and Ioradja-speaking peoples. The former group, which dominated westernmost Kyn and eastern Rhûn, were known throughout Gondor as the "Wain-easterlings." The latter were often referred to as the "Balchoth".

Kykurian Kyn is the homeland of the Kykuriag and Magriag tribes. The Magriags moved to Rhovanion and became subjects of the Necromancer of Mirkwood. They were forerunners of the later Balchoth-Confederation along with the Asdriags and Odhriags. The Kykuria, though they were believed to be largely descendants of the Ioriags and Tyr-Nomads the Kykuria were noted for their exeptionally fair hair and skin, being golden-haired and blue-eyed like a Northron not beeing rare among their kind. This had led some scholars to suggest ancient ties to the Lintador, especially the branch that produced the House of Hador. The Kykurian Pultai-Dynasty later evolved into the Balchoth.

Kykurian Kyn can be devided into two big regions: Taj Mokba, the westernmost Kyn characterized for a hilly landscape; and Tej Oda, the easternmost Kyn, flat and always descending to the banks of the Talathrant.