The Wullfolk
 | This article is incomplete because it is pending further input from participants, or it is a work-in-progress by one author. Please comment on this article's talk page to share your input, comments and questions. Note: To contribute to this article, you may need to seek help from the author(s) of this page. |
The Nomadic Peoples of the Wullfolk Ƿullfolck | |
|---|---|
|
Flag | |
| Motto: "All neath þe Ƿelkin we have aȝode" | |
| Capital | N/A |
| Largest city | Yeorood |
| Official languages | Wyllenleed |
| Demonym(s) | Wyllman(sg) Wullfolk(pl) |
| Government | Seminomadic Elective Monarchy & Heredrity Citystates |
• The High Shepherd | Michbleat II of Herd Langhorn |
• The Reeves | Reeve Tegneb of Yeorood Reeve Michbawd of Bybarrow |
| Population | |
• Census | 3,100,000 |
The Wullfolk (Wyllenleed: Ƿullfolck [/wullfoʊk/]) or officially The Nomadic Peoples of the Wullfolk is a collective of the species Faunoides aries - known as Sheeppeople as an untaxonomical exonym & Wullfolk by the Wullfolk themselves - who inhabit the eastern part of the Lumarian Plain in North Pelia, located north of S'Lanter & East of Khijovia.
Before the Wullfolk were east of Khijovia - as they came from the north-eastern most reaches of Pelia just west of modern day Verndan - was the Kveutonian Empire which upon its' collapse in the early 500s A.R. saw movement of Wyllen herds to it's lusher western Lumarian Plains with consistent & denser dwelling in the late 500s.
The Land of the Wullfolk is primarily plains, heaths & low hills in the north (known as the Lumarian Plain, or the Lumarish Sward in Wyllenleed.), a large north-westward bottleneck shaped glen - formed by the River Theaves - of thicket-speckled, rocky & arable lowlands - that may infact be persistent ancient swiddens - in the east & centre (known as the Netherheft) and montane, goatpeople-inhabited & spring-ridden highlands in the west (known as the Clastoclite Mountains, or Welkindowns in Wyllenleed.)
Etymology
Wullfolk is an endonym - they're Folk that resemble sheep, which have Wool - that observation certainly hasn't gone over their head. Their taxonomical name is Faunoides aries, or Faunoides hircus for the Welkindown's goatpeople/Goatfolk
For the very land they live on, with the relatively new practice of permanent land - put in place by High Shepherd Racarut the Great after the droughts & zoological diseases that ravaged the Wullfolk in the early 1400s A.R - there is no true word for the land that the Wullfolk live in. Though there are some impromptu words that have stuck; Wyllen Land, Land of the Wullfolk, Wullland/Wyllland or (used colloquially & used derogatorily by anti-sedentarist Wullfolk) The Sheepfold. Wyllland has been favoured by Burghers in recent times.
For the sake of ambiguity "Land of the Wullfolk" will be favoured here for its' emphasis on semantics that makes it not a proper noun - respecting the majorly seminomadity of the Wullfolk.
History
lorem ipsum
Politics
lorem ipsum
Governance
The governance is split in two hierarchies, the newly-burgeoning settlements & the ancient seminomadic pecking order.
The Burgh Governance
The Heft Governance
Geography
lorem ipsum
Landscape
Nature & Wildlife
Economy
lorem ipsum
Demography
lorem ipsum
Population
Religion
Culture
lorem ipsum