inkiens
Inkiens are a fictional ethnolinguistic group used in world-building, speculative anthropology, and fictional histories. They are typically described as a coastal, archipelago-dwelling people with a long-standing maritime tradition and a distinctive material culture. Because the term appears in multiple sources, there is no single canonical portrait of the Inkiens; individual depictions vary by author and context.
In common world-building sketches, the Inkiens inhabit a dispersed chain of islands in a temperate ocean zone,
Depictions of Inkien society vary, but they commonly emphasize maritime skills, boat-building, and long-distance trade. Social
In fictional or speculative scholarship, researchers interpret Inkien artifacts as evidence of early maritime networks and
Inkien language, maritime archaeology in fiction, world-building ethnography.