SettlementThe people from these lands have unknown origins. Due to the condition by the forming of this land (in about the same era as the destruction of Trigohaima) it is impossible that they have always lived here.However, there are traces of an older culture, found deep in the hardened mud of Fanigawi. The bodies found are small, dark brown skinned with wrinkled, old looking faces. The hair is reddish to black and usual long. If these bodies belonged to an older people, the people now living in Fanigawi are settlers from elsewhere. (By the way, the Fanigawi say that the old people, known as C’horrygs, have not all disappeared, some should live under the ground near the Lost Mountains. This could be legends, but some claim to have evidence. I have not seen it yet.) So, where do the people living in Fanigawi come from? They say they come from “Another place”, which might be Anthastahts, which can be near or far, with the sailing skills of this people, any place might be possible. However, if we bear in mind that the lands were settled just after the destruction of Trigohaima, it can be that these people used to live in Trigohaima and fled this way just before the disaster. In that case, the Fanigawis are related to the Naglani. I have found no evidence for this connection, but everything happened a long time ago, and the Naglani culture and anatomy might have changed. The houses of the Fanigawis have a wooden frame, that is covered with reeds and wllow withe. The walls of the dwellings of the richer people are plastered with a mixture of mud and shattered shells (some ancient manuscripts say ‘shattered skulls’ but I do believe that is a copy error) . Some houses are decorated with shells; they have beautiful abstract patterns. Most patterns are found surrounding windows and doors. Indoors, the floors are of wood, covered with dried mud and loam. On that, patterns of sand and shattered shells decorate the rooms. The patterns are strewn every day anew. Some patterns seem to have a religious meaning. The larger houses are build on poles, the smaller ones are build on a foundation that resembles the body of a ship. These 'ships' are tied to trees to prevent them from drifting away over the wet soil. This is not meant to be a save housing during floorings, but the only way to build on the unsteady soil and avoid the buildings from falling over because they would drift away without the poles (The powers of the wet soil push the poles more or less upwards).
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