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===Eulugian Coscivians===

| name            = Eulugians

| language        = Íuluidigion

The '''Eulugians''' are a Coscivian tribe of Sēoran and Ĥeiran ancestry whose traditional occupation is {{wp|kelping}} and the artisanal manufacture of {{wp|Seaweed fertiliser}}. The {{wp|ethnogenesis}} of the Eulugians is accepted to have taken place on the northern and western coasts of Kaltēdan in Old Coscivia, though clans and bands of Eulugians would later spread across the Akúvaric coast of the continent. The Elutic influence in their Geldican-based speech, ''Íuluidigion'', and their genetic similarity to Koralem and Vomoriem, lend credence to the Eulugians' traditional claim of descent from Elutic-speaking slaves of Northern Coscivians that were brought to the coasts and islands of Kaltēdan, where they variously escaped, were emancipated, or were abandoned. {{wp|Vraicing}}, the collection of kelp for use in fertilising poor soil, had been practiced on the western coasts of Kaltēdan and Ærēdan for centuries, but the task was extremely time-consuming and labour-intensive. According to the minutes of a  Kaltan legal proceeding during the Third Empire, “the Kelpers [Eulugians] came from the islands, the rocks, and the sea, offering to relieve that yearly burden, and in exchange recieved food and pay,".  The commodity, if collected in sufficient amounts, was in great demand and proved highly profitable. Coastal farmers were willing to pay handsomely to free up time that would otherwise have been spent kelping for other work, and inland farmers were able to improve their crop yields by buying from the Eulugians what they could not gather for themselves. Seaweed came to be used by the Kaltem for food and medicine, and the Eulugians also burned it to produce soda ash for Kaltem glassworkers. Relations between settled Kaltem and the Eulugians were generally benign, though the Kaltem did (and often continue to) view the Kelpers as simplistic, primitive, and desperate. There are, however, recorded instances of Eulugians attacking and killing Kaltem who tried to gather kelp for themselves, threatening the Eulugian monopoly.  

Eulugians adopted the [[Insular Apostolic Church|Apostolic]] faith of their settled neighbours. Historically, those Eulugians practicing their traditional roving lifestyle did not observe the Sabbath and attended religious services only a few times a year, but prayed several times daily, drew on Biblical parables in their oral tradition, and venerated saints. Today, however, Eulugian religious practices are generally similar to those of other rural coastal Ĥeiran Coscivians.

The traditional Eulugian economy was characterised by individual families or bands of families working to gather and process seaweed. While kelping was their primary activity, Eulugians supplemented their income and food supply by fishing, bird-hunting, gathering herbs and shellfish, and occasionally gardening. Women worked with men when they were not tending to children, and children themselves were expected to help with kelp processing and housekeeping until they were able to take on adult tasks. As a result, the Eulugians have an even higher degree of gender equality than their rather egalitarian Kaltan neighbours.