Vikings

Vikings or People of the Bay are a ethnic group of humans that live beyond the northern mountains of the world.

Overview
The lands where the Vikings dwell are said to be beyond the mountains where the harefolk dwell. They tell tales of how the lands there are terrifying and serve as a cautionary warning to stay away as roughnecks thrive there who rob people.

Some of the Vikings ways, while seen normal to them, can be quite barbarous to outsiders. In the north, they are regarded as pirates and thieves. In fact they are raiders and traders by nature due to the harsh north and make war amongst other tribes to take resources. Such actions are not done through malice, but are seen as inspiration of greater confidence. Vikings also practice slavery which they use as a method of cheap labor.

Even women are taken during these raids, and those were were abducted were recognized as married to their kidnappers. This tradition or the brúðrav is universal to all the tribes, and those taken do not show anger nor fear but excitement and joy as the abduction is seen as proof of their husband's intelligence, goodwill, and martial valor to steal themselves a bride as well as proof of the woman's "bridely" features.

Vikings do not have much interaction with other races, though are aware of the existence of elves and dwarves. Races such as lizardmen are seen as a novelty and mistaken as dragons. And have aggressive encounters with goblins or orcs as they are called in their homeland.

The Vikings while originally independent have since joined the Kingdom after one of its knights married the húsfreya. To give the Vikings credit they appear to be more technologically savvy as they use cranes, a device that is unknown to most inhabitants of the Kingdom.

Unlike the humans in the Kingdom, the Vikings openly worship deities that are loosely aligned with Chaos, such as "the loving mother of darkness" and Valkyrie.