Kolsson people

The Kolssons (Kolsson language: Jumarr y Kolssonafell, lit. 'People of Kolssonafell') are a human ethnic group native to Southern Serrona; closely related to the only other native human ethnicity in Lausá - the more numerous Mari.

The ethnicity and culture of the Kolssons is often considered endangered today following numerous decades of famine, disease, and alleged acts of ethnic cleansing. Today, many people of Kolsson descent are ethnically and/or culturally mixed with groups like the Lausá Lo'Oix, Manz, and Mari.

Clans & familial social orientation
Kolsson society is generally divided among numerous familial clans - often taking great pride in their patronymic family names. Kolsson governments have historically been led by a Jaryl; transliterated in Traveler's Tongue as 'Jarl'. This type of social order in the Kolsson language is called a Rasajaryl.

Linguistic traditions
While the language is incredibly endangered today, most Kolssons speak the correspondingly named Kolsson language. For more information, see the article of the same name.

Religious and spiritual traditions
Kolssons have historically practiced a group of spiritual practices collectively known as Storkrigerros. Little is contemporarily known about traditional Kolsson religious practices due to loss of culture over time.

Human settlement of Lausá
It is unknown when humans first settled in Serrona, but all human groups descend from a singular founder population and as a consequence of this, all native human ethnic groups are very closely related to each other. This ancient human ethnic group that is the descendent of these groups - which include the Kolsson - is often retroactively called the Syrokonso; coming from the reconstructed Proto-Lausán language 'Serronan man'.

Eventually this group of early human settlers split into the modern groups of the Kolssons and Mari in Lausá and numerous groups of humans across the territory of Shakumagu and the former Batu territories. Contrary to some common misconceptions, the human ethnic groups of Serrona have no direct relation to peoples like the Lo'Oix, whose presence in Serrona predate Homo sapiens by many millennia. It is instead believed that these human groups originally came from regions like Onthukhan which boasted large human populations.

'Manz' ethnogenesis
Following mass die off of many Kolssons, particularly in Western Kolsson provinces, from disease and famine the government of the Autonomous State of Kolssonafell in collaboration with the United Socialist States of Eldham began to send Lo'Oix settlers to these low-population provinces with the intent of re-stabilizing Kolsson culture and the people.

While this settlement program had the intention of helping Kolsson people and their culture, it had the adverse effect of creating a nationalist movement and the native Kolsson culture mixed with the foreign Lo'Oix to create what many began to call the 'Manz'. This resulted in further unplanned loss of Kolsson culture to assimilation and with the growth of nationalism among the newly-found Manz people they began to seek their own governance separate from the USSE and the Autonomous Kolsson government. The Manz ended up founding the nation of Manzland which allegedly engaged in acts of ethnic cleansing as native culture was removed in favor of Manz culture and local leadership favoring the policies of Manz nationalists.