Noxnorric Human

The Noxnorric People are an ethnic group native to the continent of Niedea but are most known for being associated with the first to settle the subcontinent of Helmia. One of the oldest ethnic groups of northern Rathnir, the Noxnorric tribes ruled over many parts of southern Niedea before migrating north some several thousand years ago after hostilities with the other local Niedean tribes. The Noxnorric tribes then settled in Helmia, their permanent home and ruled the land up until the collapse of the nation of Owydd Noxnorr in 75 TT.

Early Migration
There existed six Noxnorric tribes within Southern Niedea prior to the migration, including the Capreas and the Stensars, to name a few. The migration began around 600 years prior to the Destruction of the Aftonsal, and was led by the historical figure Roris who later became a Goddess within the Noxist Religion which is followed by almost every Noxnorric Person to this day. The Migration took several years, and at some point the party split before crossing a mountain range south of Helmia, causing the migration to be split into two waves between the Stensars and the remaining Five Tribes under Roris. It is thought that this split caused an offshoot of one of these tribes to settle in Najer, eventually merging with the local population to form the Bacri Tribe and some extreme cases even reached as far as Uldarash.

Arrival in Helmia and Early Expansion/Conflict
Some 700 years ago, the Noxnorric tribes settled within Helmia after being brought by the Prophet-Goddess Roris to the subcontinent. The Stensars settled in southern Helmia founding Vel Deur, and the remaining Noxist tribes settled in northern Helmia around the city of Sovdal.

Sovdal was built on top of the island of Erenfeldt, and was the home of the Aftonsal, the grandest temple in the Noxist religion up until it's destruction. The Noxnorrians clashed with the various Helmen tribes and the Aulmers, eventually splitting into two Kingdoms one in the south and one in the north. The northern one was named Noxnorr.

Some time after the death of Roris (Circa 450 BD), the Kingdom of Noxnorr went to war with the nearby emerging State of Aulmerdel. The Nox-Aulmer war ensued, and the conflict is assumed to be religious in nature, because of the mutual perceived heresy of the two states. The war ended with the subjugation of the Aulmers of Aulmerdel who were essentially exiled to the isle of Aul Aer before eventually being integrated into Noxnorric culture some thousand years ago. The Kingdom of Noxnorr in the north expanded to the West near the Sea of Bern, while to the south, the Kingdom of Galaend clashed with the Braddanochi tribes and expanded into modern-day Gdanycia.

Union and Further Expansion
At some currently unknown point in time the Kingdoms of Galaend and Noxnorr united under the Noxnorric banner. The Noxnorric peoples spread themselves throughout Helmia and became and remained the dominant ethnic group in modern Helmia up until the days of the Silver Coalition. Noxnorr was a member of both the Silver Coalition and Sterling Crownlands, and it's people spread throughout northern Rathnir for several decades.

Decline and Diaspora
Following the dissolution of the Sterling Crownlands, the nation of Owyddnorr was born, which became the most direct successor to the original state of Noxnorr. The Noxnorric population of Owyddnorr was slowly declining as the years tolled on. The death rate simply overtook the birth rate, and the population started to go. The decline of the Noxnorric population became more drastic following the collapse of Owyddnorr shortly after. The State of Owydd Noxnorr was put in place shortly after and it was practically too late. A shrunken Noxnorr, barely a rump state in Northern Helmia was doomed to die demographically.

Local Noxnorrians were displaced by the arrival of the Daelyrians, Astorians, and Kyydrosilians. As ownership of the subcontinent of Helmia shifted over the coming decades, Noxnorric population continued to decline further and further. What caused the diaspora of Noxnorric/Noxist peoples of Helmia came with the persecution of the Noxists under the Halondian prophet of Domus, Lightfish Demus.

Lightfish Demus was a cruel self-titled savior whom seized control over the city of Sovdal from the Noxist Mayor Loreth Gilroch. Noxism and Noxist population of Helmia was at an all time low at this point, as Lightfish Demus went on to destroy the Noxist temple called the Aftonsal. Noxists were placed into ethnic/religious ghettos within Sovdal and persecuted throughout northern Helmia. This ethnic violence eventually ended with the death of Lightfish Demus. The persecution of Noxists in Helmia and destruction of the Aftonsal drove tens of thousands of the remaining Noxists out of Helmia. Some founded cities abroad like New Sovdal in Najer, while others settled throughout mainland Niedea in the Simulami Empire, Alamayn, and Najer.

Resurgence
The Noxist population under the Kingdom of Daelyria has improved within the last decade, while the diasporic communities abroad in mainland Niedea and Xand/Khanji have flourished population-wise.