Vosh

Vosh

This is how Jamie learned of the Vosh's history in 2.I.11.

...Philias launched into an explanation of how the Voshconnan, acting as mercenaries, had fought for Kartannus the Great in his conquest of the continent, with the promise of receiving territory that they could claim as their own. Later, after Kartannus' death and the breakup of the Kartannan Empire, his successors ignored the treaty between the great king and his Voshconnan mercenaries. Since the line of Kartannus was strongest in the Kingdom of Xannameir, Xannameirians had earned the singular epithet of “Oath Breakers."

The Vosh’s scorn and distrust of Xannameirians was further reinforced in subsequent wars when Xannameir – at various times allied with Kalas or Vorhalla – fought against the Vosh in their struggle for independence. It had been assumed that over time the Vosh would naturally assimilate into the rest of the human population on the continent, but the experience had been a harsh one for the Vosh. Swearing to preserve their culture, they remained a nomadic people. Isolated from all other humans on the continent and remaining fiercely independent, they vowed to never settle permanently in one place unless it was to form their own independent kingdom.