Inran

The Inran are one of the native peoples of Canarque, the western continent that most of The Empire calls the New World. After the ship Imperius returned in 289 AVD with news of the continent, the port city of Aquila was founded there, colonists flocked to the Canarque route, and relations with the native Inran and Geroni peoples continued to be established.¹

The Inran and Geroni use entirely different calendars.² The natives of Canarque also have pantheons of their own.³

In Yeni Dünya

In the campaign Yeni Dünya ("New World"), the Inran are the first native people of the continent, who prefer to live close to nature in small villages built of natural materials. Fauna, a young guide of the campaign, is an Inran of one of the tribes.⁴⁵

The Inran tribes are not under a single rule, and they act apart from the Geroni city-states, though some tribes and some cities are on good terms. The Geroni trade with the tribes but do not let them into their cities.⁶⁷

Fauna's faith is described as belief in a shared natural consciousness from which all the powers of the world arise; it is not the faith of the Geroni. The two peoples use the same alphabet but speak different languages.⁸⁹

The red moon

Native belief holds that when someone does a great wrong with good intentions, the moon blushes for shame. During the campaign a red moon was seen over the continent, where none had been seen since the settlers came. See also Night of the Red Moon.¹⁰¹¹¹²

Slavery

A Geroni consul admitted that, before the automatons, his people had at times enslaved the Inran, though no slaves had been worked in his own society for a long time, and he believed that slavery had ended in the Empire too.¹³ Imperial law in fact forbids slavery only for imperial citizens.¹⁴¹⁵

War and the curse

The chief consul of Avlor Aten knows the Inran to be able killers, but fears that, with forces smaller than those of the Empire and the Geroni cities, they would be caught between the two in a war.¹⁶

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The chief consul asked that word be carried to the governor of Aquila: what was taken for poison was an old Inran curse that turns skin and organs into wood, which only the Inran themselves can stop. He had spoken with many tribes and saw no reason to think that a political order lay behind it, since for them such a move would be suicide. Fauna recognised the curse from legends and stories, and knew that no living Inran of this age should have the power to cast it.¹⁷¹⁸¹⁹