Qaemedi

The Qaemedi are a minor but widely known race within the Orient. Whilst they are Human-like - and distantly related to them and their Elven relatives (as well as the Limjiang, with the Qaemedi, Limjiang and the Proto-Elves all having evolved from the Proto-Torgyrians) - the Qaemedi have several characteristics that set them apart from the Elves and Humans: their very dark skin tones (often black), eye colour that varies between brown and golden (the latter being considered a sign of nobility), and small horns at the top of their heads at no other Torgyrian race has.

Historically, the Qaemedi dominated the land that is occupied by the Kingdom of Shíd today, but the Shíd migration led to the widespread enslavement and displacement of the Qaemedi - those who could not flee their invaded homeland were enslaved, while those who did, split into two groups: those who insisted on becoming a diasporic nation of wanderers spread around the world, and those who would try to build a new homeland for the Qaemedi people. No unified Qaemedi state exists today (sovereign Qaemedi live in city-states, most of which are matriarchies, with a few exceptions), and the various Qaemedi languages have a limited amount of mutual intelligibility between each other. Even the aforementioned Qaemedi city-states are spread accross the Orient, with only a few small kingdoms manging to rule over a larger area.