Skylians

Skylians first arose around the city of the same name shortly after the end of The Long Winter. Rumalian travelers from further west settled in the area, and soon began spreading along the southern coast of the dragon's head region.   By the year 1200, these "skylians" had spread to present-day Skagos, which would be founded in the year 1121. Meanwhile, small Shapeshifter Clans began establishing villages and communes in the penisula's mountains.   In 1040, a group of Dragonkin refugies from the Salsian Highlands arrived in Yarval, in western Rumalia. Most of them weren't allowed to settle in the city, and so around 600 dragonkins left and travelled across Rumalia. They arrived in Skylia and settled there and in the nearby mountains.   Around the same time, climate change in northern Arros caused successive bad harvests and localized famine. Some began to band together and organise raids across the thoskal sea. Their first victims were the petty kingdoms located in modern day Alvaros, who would suffered repeated raids for centuries onwards. The most affected region became known as the Axe Coast as a result.   While the climate eventualy became warmer again, the tradition of raiding remained. The Accosian isles, particularly their northern parts, became victims of skylian raids, and large parts of the local population fleeing south. Some skylians and other rumalian would settle there, forming a unique community that still exists today.   The Island of Haiska was soon found by a group of raiders, in the year 994bc, and a settlement, Hos, was built. Raids continued in Alvaros and the Accosian isles for the following 5 centuries with variying degrees of intensity. Even The Fork region would experience many raids between the 7th and 5th centuries bc, as well as some rumalian setlements.   However, this would change in the 3rd century bc, as the kingdoms of Alvaros, Northengor, and Heoria, would band together to drive out the raiders. Their combined navies would attack numerous town along the Dragon's head coast, including Skyla. The city would never fully recover, and the City of Skagos would soon become the region's main trade and cultural hub.   Another social change the Skylians experienced between the year 1000 and 300 bc, specificaly its mountain population, was Etherial Proliferation. By the end of the process, the region had coastal cities composed of a mixed Human-Elemental-soulbound population, while the mountain towns had almost exclusively Soulbound inhabitants, with many of them being Dragonkins   The rest of the second Age was peaceful for the Skylians. The end of raids brought a period of stability in the local politics, and with that, the region's various groups, tribes and clans would slowly unite under the leadership of the Halse of Skagos, forming the Halserat of Skagos.   In 15bc, seeing the dire situation on the continent at the time, the Halse of Sazagar, which had been in a process of unifying all of Rumalia during the second Age, extended the offer to the Skylians. The Halserat of Skagos would join the Confederation of Ru'mensh in 11 bc, marking the unification of all local Rumalians under one banner.