Hill and Mountain Clans

The Hill and Mountain Clans are a group of Northlander, largely Hill languages speaking clan structures populating the mountain and hill regions immediately north of the Kingdom of the Northlands. A fiercely independent folk, the Hill and Mountain Clans were able to use the terrain and their knowledge of snow magic - some say they even caused the mighty blizzards that allowed Väinämöinen to so easily conquer and subdue the Northlands - to drive out Väinämöinen's armies, even during the peak of his reign. The Hill and Mountain clans are well adapted to the Northern Mountains, which is helped by the existence of the ancient Palenquean Mirror of Fire, an artificial heat lamp hovering high above the Fertile Valley in the Northlands attached via a magical chain of pure Quick-gold to the ground.

Language
The Hill and Mountain Clans originally spoke a diverse series of Palenquean languages, called the Fjordlands Palenquean languages but after the heroism of the mercenary Ivorr, who later ascended to become the patron deity of the Hill and Mountain Clans, they started to introduce many Northern-Ysgramoreite terms into their language, so much that the speech became creolized, becoming what is now called the Hill Creole. This Hill Creole later evolved into the modern family of Hill languages found in the region today.(note that some clans are Sámmë-Savolassien speakers).