On a large island south of Ber lives a group of gnolls who belong to the Cult of the Steel Lord, and who have remained devoted to the dragon tyrant Gradiax even after he was slain over two centuries ago. These steelmarked gnolls have a somewhat paradoxical religion that commands them to avoid touching metal with bare flesh, yet to understand and master technology, for which their lord will reward them with bodies as strong as steel, free from weakness and hunger.

Pedresco orcs are by far the most common, and their features a bit closer to humans, with smaller tusks and gentler brows. Other Berans, as well as de Guerra orcs, used to use the slur ‘half-orc’ to insult the Pedresco orcs, and indeed the term might have some truth to it, as these lowland orcs were more likely to integrate with humans and perhaps even some elves.

This rare community of elves in Elfaivar were for centuries shunned because they were accused of accepting the blessing of a violent bestial god, which gave them features that shift between those of elf and tiger. The Harimau, however, believe they have been blessed by Hewanharimau, bringing them closer to the purity and strength of nature. 

The largest woodland in Lanjyr is Elfaivar, the eponymous empire of the region’s southeastern subcontinent. Elfaivar’s elves developed wondrous magic and learned to blur the borders of the Waking and the Dreaming. But their holy war with the Clergy ended with the death of Srasama, the Elfaivaran goddess of womanhood, and the backlash slew all but a few hundred Elfaivaran women. The surviving men fought over the ruins or fled in a diaspora.

Drakran culture is steeped in philosophical debate, and those who study and devise their own philosophies are the main drivers of society.

De Guerra orcs are more common in the mountains and highlands of Ber, with their strongest core on the northeast coast, along the shore of the Marrajado del Oro, where orcish sailors long raided Risuri lands. They take their name from the de Guerra family, whose matriarch Corta Nariz de Guerra is the current Bruse and ruler of Ber. 

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