Humans

Humans in Rideen are much the same as humans in our own world. The only exception is that, like almost all life in Rideen, humans in the setting have a mental bridge to the arcane plane that allows them to channel magic. If the bridge is destroyed, they die.

Humans are not native to Rideen; they hail from the continent of Pritami far to the east. They are thought to be the only sapient species in Rideen that evolved naturally, without divine intervention. The ikryn and lilithan were created by powerful nature gods. The yewen are the descendants of ancient celestial beings. The koromein's origins are utterly unknown. But because gods in Rideen are spawned from the collective imaginations of mortals, however, mortals had to exist before gods. For this reason it's believed that humans are the oldest sapient species in the world.

Compared to the other Peoples of Rideen, humans are thought to be the most ambitious, the most driven. That drive has allowed their civilization to make great accomplishments, but it has also driven them to conquer and kill. When they first arrived in Rideen, they quickly conquered its eastern shore, sparking a bloody war with the ikryn and yewen civilizations that already existed there. Eventually, human forces pushed them back and formed the United Kingdom of Triskel out of the loose confederation of smaller colonies. The years since then have been plagued with border disputes and small conflicts, but over time relationships between Triskel and its neighbors have softened as immigration between these nations has continued.

These days, most humans live in cosmopolitan cultures, among the ikryn, yewen, and occasional koromein or lilithan. Though there is still prejudice between species, the outright hostility has faded.