Ghûren

The Guren (parzi: 古人), the Ancient Men or the Four Ancient Groups of Southern Syltör is a name given to the four ancient cultures of the Dawou, Yi'yen, Nû and Fai Cultures of what is now the Aurlûnor Velande. They would be the predecessor people groups to the arrival and conquest of the Ardolians, also known as the Celestial Elves over 11,000 years ago.

The Dawou Peoples
The Dawou culture was an ancient pre-civilized human culture inhabiting what is now Imperial province, with a capitol near the modern farming village of Pangnin. Dawou migrants would introduce agriculture eastwards, and new ethnic groups- the Fai, Nû, and Yi'yen- would spawn as a result of these migrations and cultural exchange between they and the native foragers. Though initially tribal chiefdoms, they slowly coalesced into true states during the bronze age.

Elven Migrations and the End of the Guren States
At the same time as the guren agricultural revolution, elves began to migrate from the west of Syltör, settling in modern day Tacua province. The Elven Migration Period, as it is known, lasted for over two millennia and saw the introduction of rice agriculture to Syltör, and the further migration of elves into the deserts. The desert dwellers would become the Dune Elves of Ashura, and the Tacuan elves would found the city and later kingdom of Ardol on the shores of the Lothranis Sea. Areas left mostly uninhabited by elves and humans alike became home to the various tribes of Kumiho who would settle in the Hampo region, on the Lothranis' eastern shore. The strip of subtropical forest between the sea and desert would prove valuable to both the indigenous Kumiho civilization and later the imperial interests of Almador and Aurlûnor alike.