Wirlomeyan

The Wirlomei, also known as Wirl are a group of people and a nation known to haunt ancient pit-like structures all around Rathnir known as "Pisus". The League of Falsáivrea is currently the only nation where wirl are an ethnic majority.

History
The origin of the wirl people is surrounded in mystery as most historical sources are heavily biased towards a mythological origin or entirely nonexistent.

The're no saying were did the species originate, as specimens have been found all around Rathnir, and as far as historical records concern, no wirl country had ever been formed before. It's speculated ancient wirl were responsible for the creation of Pisus, which would function as wirlomei city-states in the past, although there's no evidence to sustain this claim.

Most specimens were known to haunt the citadel of Utumno, in the Eastern Empire, before it was destroyed by Axyr during the Usurpation of Yimmu-Audal, currently an unknown amount of wirlomei have adopted a nomadic lifestyle or have settled in the League of Falsáivrea, in Haven and Ardat.

Morphology
Wirlomei seem to have no relation with neither humans nor elves, as experiments realised in Ardat seem to indicate the wirl seed is incompatible with all others in Rathnir.

Wirlomei are emotional shapeshifters, as their appearance and physical composition seems to vary depending the emotional estate of any given individual, common appearances of wirlomei have included spiders, armour suits, shades, and people.

Wirlomei produce a black, dust-like, substance known as singru, of unknown origin and composition; as they live, this substance covers them as an aura and is used for communication, clothing, physical manipulation of their environment, energy storage, etc. Wirl people appear to need to produce this substance to survive, and seem to do so in mass when in the Nether.

When in humanoid form, wirl people tend to take a pale, corpse-like skin complexion, thin and seemingly frail bodies as well as delicate fingers ending in claws, pointed teeth with two prominent pair of fangs, and red eyes. It is uncertain, even amongst wirl themselves, whether this is their actual humanoid form or just a mixture of Niedene and Lamiantrophi features.

Origin
As it's been shown Wirlomei are not humans in the slightest, it is thought of them as an species of demon. The exact process by which a wirl is born is disputed, but new individuals seem to just appear out of the shadows or come out of nether portals.

Given what is believed of their own nature by themselves, wirl could be related to the mysterious continent of Jagdas and the corruption that destroyed it. Thus, they would be the result of small-scale corruption events occurring in the world. This, despite being the most agreed upon theory, has not been proven true as these small-scale corruptions haven't been properly investigated nor found.

Another hypothesis is that they are just a variation of Lamiantrhophus, who sepparated so long ago it evolved into a completely different species incapable of interbreeding with any other creature in Rathnir. This, however assumes the humanoid form of the Wirlomei and does not explain why the species holds no ancestral land, being dispersed all around Rathnir.

Historically, wirl people tended to gather within ruinous citadels from time immemorial, called pisus. It's unknown whether these citadels were constructed by other wirlomei long ago or if they were occupied illegally; nor is it known what exactly was inside them. The only two known wirlomei citadels are Ninansuyo and Utumno, of which neither stand today.

Culture
Wirl people are not particularly uniform when it comes to culture, apart from a few national symbols such as the rotten sun of Cruorism and the Wirlomeyan Cross. However, wirl value seniority and thus wirl recognise there are three main wirlomei culture groups:

Ninansuy
The Ninansuy believe on the idea of an "eternal journey" that the wirl people have followed. A ninansuyid wirlomeyan refers to any member of the wirl race that was around by the time the citadel of Ninansuyo was cursed and placed under the mandate of Norfthorn for the first time after the Great Jagdas Migration. Most ninansuy died after the destruction of the citadel by Axyr and apart from him there's no records of there being any other surviving specimens.

Udún
Udún wirlomei are extremely secretive. If not entirely made out of it, a wirl will grow singru appendices to cover up any recognisable features with a kind of veil-like construction which will conceal any recognisable features they might have. It's not known why this practice is as commonplace as it is. Udún wirlomei used to be the inhabitants of the now destroyed citadel of Utumno, and are generally loyalists that followed and helped Axyr with the foundation of the Palatine Confederation and generally are high ranking government officials.

Carcosan
Carcosan wirlomei are any wirl that migrated to the confederacy without being present during the times ot Utumno or Ninansuyo.

Religion
Historically they worshipped a god named Caliburnus, of whom most myths were lost to time after a crusade was launched by Escharia to convert them into Soleannen. It's believed this resulted in the burning of what little historical record was held inside the fortress, as they possessed no writing system before being integrated in the empire and most information was stored in the form of enchanted water.

They currently practise what seemed to be a highly antagonistic and secular version of Soleannen known as Cruor Cruoris, but encrypted manuscripts found in the ruins of Utumno seem to indicate no conversion ever took place, despite what the Escharien crusade intended. However, the dating and decryption of these books still result problematic for researchers.

The wirl language (also known as Utumnic) was an historical language mostly used for record-keeping. The language fell entirely out of use after the Usurpation of Yimmu-Audal, when most of the population adopted a dialect of ancient Ardati as their primary language as a sign of good faith and friendship.