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There's also a little of displeasure towards the construction of the great road, which some consider to be an exercise in futility. More resources and manpower is funnelled into this painful project until after almost fifty years of effort, it reaches its destination. Over two hundred miles of slate paves the forest floor, leading from the Croglatol to the river Brigatol. There, the Croglatovic don't meet the Winterfolk. Instead, they encounter the <span class="mu-s">Pradroweg</span> – the <span class="mu-i">Moonmen</span>.
When the chiefdom's envoys return from first contact with the leaders of the Pradroweg, they report that the Moonmen were overjoyed to meet more outsiders. While the northern coast purportedly suffered less from the deluge, the Winterfolk of eld were reliant on trade with the Bladrek and the Klatulyklawek, an exchange which came to a tragic end with the great flood. The collapse of their economy and the damage caused by the deluge were the primary reasons for a schism that split the Winterfolk in two. The Moonmen are one half and the Brydroweg, the <span class="mu-i">Sunblessed</span>, are the other.
The divide between them is a religious one. All Winterfolk were once worshippers of the sun, Glydron, a life-giving mother who provides warmth in the cold and bitter north. With the deluge, the Pradroweg arose and claimed that the flood was the doing of Prydrol, the less loved moon, the wise father who guides them during the long nights of winter. The Brydroweg remained more populous in the east while the Pradroweg were more numerous in the west and after a bitter internal conflict, each purged the other from the territory that they controlled. The two sects remain divided to this day.
Contact is made with the Brydroweg as well. While they are almost as cordial and their land is far more rich in arsenic and lead, they have already found a trading partner in the Klatulyklawek. They are still open to the prospect of trading with the chiefdom, but they aren't as desperate as the Moonmen – they won't be as easy to exploit.
Further to the east, where the Sharoc meets the sea, the land grows even more bitterly cold. The Sunblessed claim that beyond those steep slopes, even trees struggle to survive – there is no civilisation there, or so they claim. As for the west, there is one more tribe, who are known as the <span class="mu-s">Klarowek</span> or the <span class="mu-i">Cliffmen</span>. They are oddly similar to the Scagravic, with the primary difference being that they live among the sheer cliffs of the northern coast instead of the great blackwoods of the Grascan. They are hostile raiders who frequently assault their neighbours – they only persist due to how difficult it is to eradicate them, as was the case with the Treedwellers.
