The Sheremev

The Sheremev are a race of hardy folk inhabiting the cold, bitter southern regions of the Bolkov Subcontinent. In that part of the world, the temperature rarely rises above 20 degrees, and nights can plunge into the -50's. The Sheremev survive on a basic diet of snow-weed, a low-nutrition plant that thrives in such conditions, bora, the only pack animal able to survive there, and ice clover, a rare and delicious plant. This is occasionally supplemented with convoys from other, more temperate regions. The Sheremetev are excellent loggers and hunters, and trees and furs exported by them are quite valuable. They are divided into classes. The uppermost class are the boyars, or nobles. These are usually warlords or hereditary aristocrats. The next class is made up of the wealthy traders who export fur and import foreign products of great use to the Sheremev. This includes metal, for although they possess great reserves of iron they have little in the way of anything else. Following that class are the freemen, wealthier farmers and warriors, as well as craftsmen. Then there are serfs, or indentured laborers on noble's land, and finally slaves, although the practice of slavery has been dying out recently. They are extremely family-oriented and often live in massive family groups. The Sheremev number around 3 million and usually live on the land, but they sometimes cluster in towns with artisans and have several cities with large populations, the largest, Kylov, having 450,000 inhabitants and being the seat of the ancient Sheremetiev religion, which worships dragons. Recently, as foreign powers have begun to exert influence on them, the Sheremetev have converted to their masters' religion: The Sanctum.

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