Ethnic groups in Kiravia: Difference between revisions

The '''Euluśians''' 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 Euluśians is accepted to have taken place on the northern and western coasts of Kaltēdan in Old Coscivia, though clans and bands of Euluśians 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 Euluśians' 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 [Euluśians] 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 Euluśians what they could not gather for themselves. Seaweed came to be used by the Kaltem for food and medicine, and the Euluśians also burned it to produce soda ash for Kaltem glassworkers. Relations between settled Kaltem and the Euluśians 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 Euluśians attacking and killing Kaltem who tried to gather kelp for themselves, threatening the Euluśian monopoly.