Ved (VEDD)

The Ved or Veddr were a High Terran ethnicity of wandering herders, farmers and, most famously, Saurophones, whom are credited with bringing the highly esteemed Veddic Language, as well as domesticated Reveders to Dinorania.    

Anthropology

The Ved were a High Terran people, arriving on Gea presumably during the Sixth Cosmic Transference Event, in the 52nd Century BCE. They were a typically large, well-built people, with a diet consisting mostly of foraged fruit, meats and fish. Veddic potsherds have been found on the Pteroan Coast from as early as 5100 BCE, depicting stylized images of male individuals fishing. There is evidence in the Ourasian historical record that they adopted a nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle, always accompanied by their loyal Reveder companions. The Ourasian Historian Svijan writes:

"The Ved have little concern for the necessities of Civilization. They are content to roam the coasts and the floodplains, living in harmony with the nature. At times they bring to us walled-folk their breeds of tame beasts in exchange for barley and maize from our farms, the methods of which are regarded by them with varying degrees of both reverence and skepticism."

From People and History, reeded fivefold c. 3688 BCE

History and significance

The Vedi (or Ved, to the Dinoraenes) adopted a semi-tribal confederation around the 38th Century BCE, though much of their time was still spent roaming the Austral Crescent between the Bridge and the Chirē, and frequently trading with the budding Ourasian and Dinorinic city-states. The Ved often sold them their most lavishly bred raptors as gifts for chieftains, nobility and kings. The Veddic Raptors, which the Dinoraenes called ‘Vedrir,’ were highly treasured for their majestic plumage as well as their exceptional intelligence. They could be taught commands, and, as some sources attest, to understand hundreds of words and phrases in the Veddic language, and later, the Old Dinoric. Here, in the Chirē’s valleys and the Ourasian floodplains, the tradition of Saurophony, or “Dinosaur-whispering” was born, and became a key part of Ourasian, Dinorinic and later Laukene Culture. Though attempts were made to make Dino