Dáhaì

The Dáhaì people are an ethnic group in central Helvara, who are believed to be the descendants of the mythical figure of Dáoì, the father of wolves and leader of the Black Wolf Pack, whom they used to worship in the old times.   The druidic Circle of Dáhaì is the respective druid circle tasked with protecting the ways of the Dáhaì people.   The Dáhaì people have distributed themselves in a wide geographical radius even before formal kingdoms and nations were formed. Unlike other old ethnicities of Helvara, the people of Dáoì have somehow even spread over the Firgan mountain range, while it is extremly iuncommon for ethnic groups to have spread over such a untraversible terrain in ancient times. Nowadays descndants of the Dáhaì people are mainly communities in the northern regions of Salternia, southern Grendola and the entirety of the Morisian Territories and some small part in the southeast corner of the Duchy of Vallande.   The Ebirecca forest, where the Circle of Dáhaì has their sacred dominion, lies almost exactly at the heart of this geographic distribution. This fits the legend perfectly, that it had been Dáoì himself, who had willed the forest to grow and that is was him, who has given it the name Ebirecca meaning "Seat of the Heart". The legend states htat the forest was meant as a home and territory for the wolves of his Black Wolf Pack to roam free and to not have to hide, and that it is the Dáhaì people who are the descendants of the black wolves of Dáoì.   In the above named regions, many customs of the Dáhaì remain and there are constant reminders that they are the children of the father of the wolves such as the Night of Dáoi.