Karzarad (culture)
The Karzarad are a mysterious people that hail from a land long since lost to memory, only appearing in the historical record some time after the Chaos of the Seventh Century. A people with strong oral traditions, they venerate the most prolific and renowned of their storytellers. Their storytellers speak of a wondrous land with a sprawling and splendorous metropolis at its heart, a city that they say possesses a name unutterable by man. Yet, they also recount many other tales, of which many speak of a great tyrant called the 'Stymialtr' who was a cruel and capricious ruler despised by the Karzarad and the hardships they endured under his oppressive rule.
Some learned scholars have proposed that these stories seem to hold a kernel of truth within them, though greatly embellished. Only adding to the intrigue surrounding them is their tradition of making oddly complicated mechanisms in various shapes and forms that are gifted to those who they hold dear as a sign of affection.
Despite the enigma posed by their questionable origins, they remain a fairly mundane people with some lingering cultural oddities.