![[characters_banner_2.webp]] `Apr. 24, 2025` · [[Horseapple]] · #Fragment #Characters #Bannerlord > [!custom-callout]- All mentions > *Pulled from* [[3-Travels-in-Calradia-(DLC)]] — “From time to time I caught a glimpse of fires burning in the woods off the trail. Villagers told me these were 'the Forest-People', who call themselves the Vakken, burning down a swathe of woods and sowing their crops. They say that the cleared land gives great yields at first, and a Vakken must work less than a Sturgian to feed himself and his family. But it is quickly exhausted, and so the Vakken must move about from place to place. Istiana's man Arto in Sibir, himself half-Vakken, told me a bit about his people. No one could say whether they came to this land first, or the Sturgians. For as long as anyone could remember, he says, the two people have intermingled. Sometimes they trade, sometimes they fight, much in the same way the Aserai-Sultanate live side-by-side with the Bedouin of the desert.” > &emsp;&emsp;<br> ![[encyclopedia_calradica.gif|center|300]]<br> >*“A massive `Mount & Blade` wikipedia.”*<br>About [Encyclopædia Calradica](About-the-Encyclopædia.md)<br>About the [Project](Project-(Pillar).md)<br>About the [Author](Horseapple.md) <br>&emsp;&emsp;