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| The Arakians were the human, surface dwellers of the land of [[Arak]]. They herded sheep and goats, and were also [[miner | miners]]. A road crossed their land joining the eastern end of the [[Old Svalich Road]] in eastern [[Barovia]] to [[Darkon]] probably just west of [[Tempe Falls]]. There was also a road to [[Sidnar]] in [[Darkon]]. The Arakians possessed an abject fear, which they attempted to impress upon others, of the hours of the night when the ''[[Sneeuane Feallagh]]'' ("gossamer folk") would swarm up from the kingdom of ''[[Niurin Scaa]]'' ("Shadow Nether") to devour the souls of mortal men.
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| ''Niurin Scaa'' was subject to a strange [[Temporal Distortion | temporal fugue]] that the Arakians encountered as they plumbed the depths. A [[miner]] might spend a week underground and return to the surface to discover that only a day had passed. The phenomenon grew more marked and unnerving the deeper the Arakians dug, and ultimately they foreswore [[mining]] far beneath the surface, warning visiting Darkonese [[Dwarf | dwarves]] and [[Gnome | gnomes]] not to dig too deep.
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| In 588 BC a [[sandstorm]] of unprecedented ferocity scoured the land of [[Arak]] clean in an event recorded as the [[Scourge of Arak]]. The storm did not harm life far beneath the surface of the land however. Yet when the [[shadow fey]] emerged from their hidden kingdom of ''Niurin Scaa'' it was to survey their loss. The Arakians, who had been an excellent diversion from the ennui of eternity, were no more.
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| Evidence of the existence of the Arakians consists of their [[mine | mines]] and the tales of Darkonese dwarves and gnomes whose fathers came to [[mine]] the [[Mountains of Misery]] after the appearance of [[Darkon]] on the northern frontier of Arak in 579 BC.
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