Enoshs

Enoshs are a fictional ethnolinguistic group created for use in speculative fiction and role-playing settings. In most narratives, they inhabit a river valley region in a temperate continent, living in a loose federation of city-states connected by trade routes and shared ritual calendars. The term Enosh is used by outsiders for the group, while the people refer to themselves with a cognate word meaning “the awakened ones.”

The Enosh language is described as agglutinative with complex nominal morphology and vowel harmony, forming a small language family that includes related dialects and neighboring tongues. The language and culture emphasize memory, astronomy, and navigational lore.

Society is organized around kin-based clans that form councils at the city level. Economy relies on riverine trade, pottery, bronze smithing, and textile crafts. Social roles are varied by clan, with elders serving as arbiters and keepers of initiation rites. Religion centers on water and celestial events, with seasonal festivals tied to river levels and star observations.

In fictional histories, the Enoshs trace origins to inland settlers who migrated from upland regions after a great flood. A series of accords among rival city-states created a fragile federation that endured for centuries before destabilizing in a period of drought. In modern depictions, Enoshs appear as protagonists, antagonists, or cultural interlocutors in stories and games, with museums and scholars in some narratives curating artifacts.

Notable sites include the city of Arin, the Temple of Luma, and the Meridian Library. Notable figures are navigator-priestess Asha of the Lentic Guild and bronze-smith Toren of the Riverforge.