Khandians

The original population of Khand (or Kha-On) in the Second Age had been farmers, descendants of the House of Sulam from Hildorien, the first Men who had come to the Khand Gap after the wanderings of the Daen-people in the early second Age.After the rise of the Talatherim some western Ioriag clans, the Ororath, Omodath and Vracarath, conquered these local tribesmen and other Ioriag clans invaded to the lands of Kha-On in several succeeding waves.The population and culture of late second and early Third age Khondu had integrated both, the earlier agricultural element and the later intruding Nomad cultures, the Porodihi were the more sedentary and loyal faction while the more conservative and nomadic clans, the Chorad and the seven Orath were often seen as unreliable.

Throughout most of the Third Age these people were widely known as Khandians but after the Wainrider was, the Nazgûl installed a newly formed northern Dynasty from within the lines of Mercenary clans who had fought against Gondor in the Great Wars.These Elite-Warriors were knows as Variags, a term that was often used by outsiders to denote the entire population of Khand, although in Khand itself the term dsignated only a single social class.