The Branomaboi or older Maqqi Brana (Mb. "Sons of Bran") were a wandering people of the Second Age. They were descendants of the Arrónai, and as well akin to the Daen-peoples as they were to the Beorians and the Easterlings of Bor's Folk and Uldor's Folk. During the last days of the First Age their ancestors had been pushed out of the northern vales of the Ered Nimrais by the advance of Tarma-Pal, while the closely related ancestors of the Gwathuirim settled in Enedhwaith the Branobaoi mostly moved on towards northern Eriador. The Hillmen of Rhudaur, the Breelanders, the Calenardhonians and the Hollin-Folk were all considered their descendants.
Genealogy[]
- Hildor
- Asrabi
- Lintanoi
- Edain
- Swarthy Men
- Daen
- Branomaboi
- Brerion
- Breelanders (intermixed with Forodrim)
- Calenardhonians (intermixed with Dúnedain, Dunmen and Northron settlers)
- Ne Dreubhan or Munentaen
- Hollin-Folk (intermixed with Dunmen and Men of the Misty Mountains)
- Brerion
- Branomaboi
- Easterlings of Beleriand
- Daen
Notes[]
Original form in MERP: Mebion Bron → Branomaboi = Maqqi Brana
possibly derived from Welsh Meibion Brân, "Sons of the Raven", but modified to look more like proto-Brythonic mab. Replaced by fantasy forms based on reconstructed old Brythonic and reconstructed archaic Irish.