Ráliani

The Raliani were a group of the Linadan or Eastern Lake-peoples, a southeastern branch of the Easterlings.They occupied the Ralian, or ''Great Lake-Lands]] of the southeast.While their more northern Linadan Kinsmen were for the most part semi-nomadic Herders the Raliani were more civilized farmers, fishermen and Traders.In their early times the Raliani's ancestord had friendly ties with the Kwindi Elves they later fell under the sway of the Nazgûl Khamûl (after his Exile from Wômawas Drûs) and became the base of the barbarous realm of Ruartar, whose High-Kings the Kanks served the Dark Lord and offered him shelter and hideout when he hid himself within the dark Iron Forest in the center of the [World]].

The Raliani hoewver were never a united people but consisted of several independent tribes notably the Tife Cabian, Tife Lenian, Rale Cuivian, Rale Bursian and last the Tife Kankanian, who were the power base of the Kanks.They however spoke a single language known as Ralek.