Legends of Belariath

High Humans History

At some point, lost far back in mists of time the Barbarians and the High Humans split from the same bloodline. The legends and stories of why this happened are many and varied, some say there was a great war, others that the People were divided by mountains created by a ripping and buckling of the earth, still others that a great War arose, or that two Clans proliferated into two separate Peoples.

The likelihood is that a war or a fracture of society caused two factions of the People to got their separate ways and become the Barbarians and High Humans that they are today. If this is true, then it is probable that other groups of the Ancestors sought refuge in other areas of Belariath, and have been lost, along with their culture and heritage under dirt and rock and jungle; somewhere in the history of Belariath; or perhaps some other world.