Delliks

The Delliks or Dellenes are an ethnic group native to Orillia, Dellos, Ancotania, Numeria, Aegeos, Itonia and to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Serephanian and Azal Seas.

History
The Delliks speak the Dellik language, which is part of the larger Dellenic language family.

Origins
The Proto-Dellenes arrived in the area now called Dellos from northern Orillia or Ancotania. Some scholars have placed the split of the Proto-Delliks from the Proto-Dellenes in the Parean peninsula, in southeast Theron. These early Delliks were not a unified group but rather a collection of people who spoke closely related dialects. The first of these people, the Proto-Massideans, lived along the coast of the Sargonian Sea in Orillia and Ancotania. The Massideans continued to migrate west through the Sargonian islands, coming into contact with the indigenous Sargonian and Serephanian people.

Location
The Delliks have long inhabited the Sargonian and Azal Seas.

Tyrus
The island of Tyrus in the north Azal Sea has been culturally Dellik for several millennia. Most of the island's inhabitants are known as Boraspian Delliks, more commonly referred to simply as Boraspians. The Boraspians formed as an ethnic group during the time of the Tonan Empire, when it enjoyed self-rule as the Kingdom of the Samarian Boraspos. The earliest settlement of Tyrus by the Delliks occurred around the Boraspos Strait and later the mountainous south coast. The Delliks interacted and formed close connections with the natives: Thydians and Samarians. After several centuries the natives were fully Dellenized the three groups intermixed. Today, the Boraspians speak a Dellenic language, Boraspian, which descends from Massidean Dellik.

Serdica
Serdica, an island that divides the Eastern and Western Serephanian, has long been one of the most important areas in the Dellik world. Selicyon, on the east coast of Serdica, was the largest Dellik-speaking city in the world for several centuries.