Lost Men

The "Lost Men" are a whole tribe of feral children living the deepest, darkest corners of the Oldgrowth. They were were meant to be sacrificed as infants to the Kindred elves but were rescued by a faun. Raised without any human influence they behave more like wild animals than people.

Behavior
They can't even communicate normally (although they can beautifully mimic birdsong and sometimes parrot spoken words) and don't understand even the simplest tools (even fire is magical to them). They literally catch their meals, running down deer or grabbing fish out of a stream. They run on all fours and find normal posture clumsy, walk like gorillas all hunched over on their knuckles. In a fight they bite and scratch and use their fists but have very little coordination. They are very clever when it comes to avoiding danger, evading hunters and traps with ease.

Although they've grown into adults beneath their tough, feral exteriors they are very childlike and crave love and affection. Despite being very afraid of men and elves (who sometimes hunt them as if they were wild animals) they seem to instinctively trust women, seeing in them the mothers they never had.

Society
Lost Men possess a pack mentality, however, they take great care of all members of their tribe as if they were their own siblings. Not only do they save other infants, raising them as their own, but they also take lost children or even steal them away from their families. Few among them make it past their teens.

Characters
Kith - named by Rill, a girl who was meant to be sacrificed but was not considered acceptable by the elves due to her age and left to die. Kith saved her and took her back to his tribe, where she met Yriddin.

Yriddin - a madman and a prophet, was adopted by Brer the Bard became his companion, though he never learned to speak he was fiercely intelligent. He drank of the sap from the Root of the World, extending his life remarkably.