Lushyods
 1rst row : King Frigyen II, Anna Kationna, Jada Aller, Hug Moritz, Saichel Morva 2nd row : Prince Farza, Vilvo Orbraggar, Hortankh Bolsar, Srav Kann, Marveil Urshlo | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 25.28 million (2020) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Drevstran | 18 million |
 Brumen | 3.96 million |
 Ostrozava | 1.85 million |
 Zacapican | 1.47 million |
| Languages | |
| Lush, Ostro-Ludzic, Nahuatl | |
| Religion | |
| Docetic Nazarism, Alban Nazarism, Aletheic Nazarism, Judaism | |
The Lushyods are originally a Ugric people who, through successive migrations, came to conflict with the Ludic principalities and chiefdoms that had succeeded to the Tervigian Empire. The Lushyods ultimately successfully pushed south and settled in the Furodomark, a region of south-west Drevstran. From this first proto-state two kingdoms emerged : the Drevstag and the Lushyodorstag. Other Lushyod kingdoms would emerge from these proto-states, including the Viragstag in modern day Brumen.
There are currently an estimated 25 million ethnic Lushyods and their descendents worldwide, of whom 18 million live in modern days Drevstran. Significant groups of people with Lush ancestry live in neighborhing countries (Ostrozava, Brumen, Ludvosiya...) but also in other continents with a strong diaspora in countries such as Zacapican.
Lushyods can be divided into several subgroups according to local linguistic, cultural characteristics, and religion. Such groups include the Vörönyak jews, the Havari of Brumen, and the Lush-Nahuas of Zacapican.
Name
The origin of the Lushyod' name is uncertain. There are mainly two ompeting explanation for its etymology : the first refer back to old Lush songs and legends to explain Lushyod as referring back to the name of an old medicinal herb that covered the "Pastures of our ancestors" and granted them long and healthy lives, if not immortality, until one day all the herb died forcing the ancestors of the modern Lushyods to abandon their homeland and migrate in quest of the medicinal herb. While popular among Lush Protochronists circles, the hypothesis is still defended by some historians due to the cultural importance of the Immortality Quest among early Lushyods and thus, while the events recorded in the legends never happened, the famed medicinal herb became the inter-tribal symbol of the Lushyods.
The other explanation simply consider Lushyod to have the same origin as Ludz or Ludic : the proto-Lud word for "people". This would follow the habit of Eastern Belisarians chroniclers to refer to Ludic people, or identify separate Ludic people, by their specific pronounciation of this proto-word. This would be especially in line with how Gothics - and afterward Audonians - had difficulties differenciating the Lushyods from neighboring Ludic people. However, other historians and linguists consider this explanation to overplay these difficulties - Lush military warfare, customs, and language make it hard to believe they could be mistaken as Luds for long - and to base itself on flimsy linguistic evidences.