Nattanan (culture)
Enigmatic Jungle-dwellers, the Nattanan live in relative isolation from the outside world. Indeed, despite living upriver of some of the most ancient farming civilizations on Aeras, the Nattanan have never adopted such brutish innovations as sedentism, agriculture, or any of the other trappings of so-called civilization. Fools call them simple barbarians, but in truth the foreboding walls of jungles and mountains shelters dozens of remarkably sophisticated and ancient clans of hunter gatherers who have spent countless generations turning their homeland into a cornucopia.
Fiercely proud of their independence and relatively egalitarian way of life, those few outsiders who have conversed with Nattanan have noted that they generally seem to regard the notions of "civilization" held by lowlanders with something approaching pity.