Nebulonic people

The Nebulonic people, or Nebulones (Nebulonic: Ucuhlǽver /ut͡suˈl̥æver/; Sajem Tan: Tözenmocâ /tøzenmot͡sɑ/), are an ethnic group in Sajem Dasnan. They are primarily concentrated in Nebulonia. Traditionally, the speak the Nebulonic language, although they have shifted gradually over time to the Sajem Tan and Tözen Tan languages.

Origin in Chelyras
The Nebulones are by descent a Chelyraic people; in antiquity, they were known as the Sychvaäns, living in the Sychva region of Interior Chelyras. Antique Chelyran sources speak of them as barely Chelyran because they did not sail, even along rivers. As such, much of the information we have from these sources is of limited reliability. What we do know is that they were organized in clans around chieftains, and that these clans were often named for mountains or rivers. Government was done within the context of these clans, although one clan had jurisdiction over all the others and as such their chieftain was the de facto chieftain of the Sychvaäns. The Sychvaäns were masters of the arts, such as jewelry, and pottery, and the surviving artifacts of their work show a propensity for simple line drawings, still evident in Nebulonic art today. Also popular among the Sychvaäns was literature: Sogmyn of Gorphonas details their love of epic tales as well as nature poetry and fairy tales. They lived off of what they could find in the mountains: fish from the rivers, fresh snow, and mountain vegetation.

The Sychvaäns were eventually forced from their home by a raid from a Chelyran king, who brought in an army which mercilessly destroyed the Sychvaän villages and killed half the population. The remainder fled, and so disappeared from the records of Chelyran historians for centuries.

The Sychvaäns in the North
For eight centuries, the Sychvaäns lived a nomadic lifestyle, wandering in a vague northwest direction towards the Straits of Mizhimenak. Little is known of their life or their route, and they appear to have left little trace for archeologists. Our main source besides Nebulonic legends (first written down long after the Crossing of the Strait) is the Frosty Mountain Memoirs of Filissa of Netsa, a Middle Chelyran noblewoman writing of her time among a tribe of nomads known as the "Sikve".

In the Memoirs, Filissa recounts how she was taken in by the Sikve when she accidentally fell out of a Chelyran trading caravan. They are presented as a simple and peace-loving tribe living off what little they could of the mountainous land. Filissa notes their extreme attachment to birds up to thirty-six times in her book. Filissa recounts some information about Sikve agricultural practices: "the Sikve grow plants to eat along the sides of small streams; this way, they have water for their roots. These streams are the only viable water source besides the dense fog, to which they seem to have adapted quite well." Does this mean the Sikve had already adopted fogriculture at this point? Nebulonic legends assert that it was learned only in Mizhimenak, and there is no evidence (written or archeological) that fog crops were known in the Frosty Mountain region at this point. Historians agree that it is unlikely that fogriculture was known then, but this passage (and others in the Memoirs) attests to