Enorn
The Enorn are a Primevean people of the Ættriesence, the eastern region from which they spring, gathered in the nation of Argyllon. In the present age they keep the faith of the god Olden.
Their lineage is genuinely disputed. The Enorn dwell at the crossroads of the continent and have interbred over generations with the Tellorn and with various Nortorn subethnicities, so that some reckonings count them among the Rictorn and others among the peoples who belong to no single family. The Nortorn go further and name the Enorn rebellious kin, a wayward branch of their own house; the Enorn reject this wholly and hold themselves independent. Every lens is recorded; none is adjudicated.
In their earliest age the Enorn were no single nation but a loose confederation of the Ættriesence, bound under a decentralized council rather than a crown. Theirs was a pre-Oldenian faith: they venerated the slain dragon-prince Ættiraxes, felled by his own brother Oglethar in the War in Heaven, as a martyr and a saint.
It was the coming of the Dai’dou that changed them. When that people, the line of Oglethar who had slain their saint, migrated to Raetun, the pretense of which caused the scattered council to unify at last under a single king, Argyllic I. The Enorn took up a great crusade, and in its early phase was waged in alliance with Þordil the Great, whose eldest son Garðwin I was Argyllic’s ward and fought in it. Among its champions was Skegglevarnår, the Ümkuinez (“eternal flame”), called also Öggkhai, the Great Betrayer, one of the founding generation of the Doghul: he rallied to Argyllic’s cause, slew thousands of the Dai’dou, most notably Moothgar among them, and drove the last of their kind, Maerxsikyst, into hiding.
The alliance did not hold. Its collapse between Þordil and Argyllic culminated in the Battle of Relanor: the day their king sallied against the High King and nearly broke him, sought single combat, and was slain. They venerate Argyllic for the attempt to this day, and from his final rebuke took “Scourge of the West”, the euphemism by which they name his killer rather than speak the name aloud.
The Enorn seat was first Noldanas; Argyllic I raised Relanor as a new capital, and it was Relanor that fell in the Breaking. When his grandson and namesake, Argyllic II, restored the line in the Oldenakriso, he took Noldanas again as his capital. Under his reign, Relanor was rebuilt, not as a throne but as a memorial and the divine office of Olden and his clergy, the seat of the Oldenian faith the Enorn keep to this day.