Lisendid
Lisendid are a culturally cohesive people inhabiting the Verin Highlands of Eldara, a mountainous region known for terraced farms, pine forests, and dispersed villages. They live in small kin-based communities that share a common language, social customs, and historical memory. The Lisendi language is the primary medium of daily life and oral literature, with several regional dialects and a tradition of storytelling that preserves history and law.
Society is organized around matrilineal clans. Property and family name pass through women, while political authority
Culture and economy center on traditional livelihoods such as terrace farming of maize and tubers, goat herding,
History records the Lisendi as autonomous hill communities that engaged in trade with riverine and coastal
Religion and belief traditions are predominantly animist, with emphasis on nature spirits and ancestral veneration. Some