An ancient civilization once stretched from the Great Pass in the northwestern Riverlands to the eastern desert of Karatas. Ruins from the days of its greatness can be found throughout the Aezjarean Sea area. This enigmatic species then withdrew suddenly from all contact nearly a thousand years ago, and since that time have only rarely been encountered on the mainland.
	Their home is Aezjarea, the island from which they once ruled the lands of the Great Sea. Though few outsiders have visited this remote continent, it is by all accounts a beautiful and wondrous place.
	Aezjareans are renowned as seamen. They sail their enormous ships across the wide expanse of the Great Sea, calling at ports from Ixtas to Karatas, and some say unknown lands even farther away. It is well known that Aezjarean traders often have goods unavailable anywhere else.
	Aezjareans are also fine artisans and artists, producing objects of great beauty, though often puzzling use. Among humans, Aezjareans are infamous for devoting years to perfecting the art of making shoes from rocks, for instance, or building a house without a floor. When asked about this, they often give cryptic answers, and other Aezjareans do not think such behavior odd.
	They also differ greatly from humans in terms of their drive to dominate. The Aezjareans built a great empire over the course of centuries, and for several decades fought (and won) a costly war with the Ssuhim for a seemingly worthless area of desert east of Karatas, only to leave most of their lands and withdraw to Aezjarea without giving any reason. Scholars to this day do not understand it, nor has any explanation been offered by the Aezjareans.
	Few Aezjareans now leave their island, and most of those that do only sail on their ships from port to port. Rarely will an Aezjarean strike out onto the mainland. An Aezjarean away from the ocean is a rare sight.