600 AD: Proto-Kelts in the 7th Century, the Nearly

(Peryton)

" I like proto-Bavarian or maybe half-neanderthal. The neanderthal angle is interesting because the Island Celts had a legend that, when they arrived in Britain, they had to push out a race of ugly giants. And an isolated community in Bavaria seems like a reasonable place to find more-than-usual neanderthal heritage."

Along side the humans, these beings would come to know the Universe, They were those that came about as the Trees made Land welcoming. They were those that were born as the seeds of the Now and would take hold. The Nearly, mostly human, as a culture have watched the Sea separate from Land. 

   Up in the mountains, as they fear the Sea with His anger about being separated from their mother, the Sky, the are stranded on Land. The Nearly have dealt with first the neanderthals and then the humans as partners as the Cosmos have unfurled around them. This has worked only so well for them.
   The humans new One God thing is causing the Cosmos to go mythical. As refugees on land from the Sky-Sea Cosmos, this means the Nearlys inevitable demise. At the same time they have to deal with the world of 600 A.D. going on around them. They are doomed but the world around them probably isn't up to their extinction.

The Nearly Player-Character in 600 A.D: 
 Protecting Dryad-Trees only found in the deepest of forests, the Nearly areat home in wilderness. As they are tied to magic along threads being woven by the Stitch Witches weaving the Cosmos around all beings in the Universe, a world's elements hold only so weight upon them. 

Been Here  +10% to any Perception roll.
Done That +5% to any Knowledge roll.