The Tashyvar Islands are home to the Inana maenads. Victims of an ancient tragedy, these psionically powerful beings are the last survivors of an island nation that sank beneath the waters of the Lhazaar Sea two thousand years ago. The Inana have recently established a series of small coastal hamlets on the western seaboard of Tashana proper.
What little is known of the Inana maenads suggests that they maintain a radically simple, almost deliberately primitive society in the remote Tashyvar Islands. Separate and distinct coastal villages are designed to be entirely self-sufficient, and there is no indication of any centralized government. Inana colonists have in recent generations established a series of fishing villages on the western seaboard of Tashana, as well as the port community of Winterstead, trading peaceably with the native Saartuk shifter tribes. As a people, the Inana apparently follow some kind of seasonal rhythm, with active periods of exploration and colonization in the summer, offset by almost hibernationlike episodes in the long dark of winter. In fact, visitors to Inanan villages in the dead of winter report entire colonies seemingly abandoned.