Excerpt from:
Friends and Foes of the Cervinii Nation: the Bakari

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Little is known about the tribe of bear-people who have come to be known in modern days as the Bakari. Their contemporaries had many monikers for them, including "Urdine", "mountain-dogs", or simply "the River People", due to their presence around the Ursalinde River, which in turn, takes its own name from this enigmatic group, thought to be the first inhabitants of the area.

While the Bakari would have certainly recognized one another as part of a large, disparate clan, they had no particular society, as one would recognize it. Unlike their Boarish and Cervinii neighbors, the Bakari formed no townships; even a family unit was rare, individuals instead preferring to live lives of near-isolation.

Such factors explain the incomplete account of their history, and what little we do know of them is sourced from the occasional Bakari that dwelt among the neighboring tribes. Bakari were known to tutor sons of the Boarish ruling families, and there is also the instance of the famous Bakari philosopher: Suryo of Winter City, although the entirety of his work comes down to us second-hand through Cervinii contemporaries (Suryo himself rumored to have been completely illiterate).