Eyvinid

Eyvinid (literally "descendants of Eyvind") is an ethnic-cultural subgroup of the Álfar hailed from the southwest of the Misty Sea before migrated to western Fridagend, from where they started to expand eastward.

The progenitor of the Eyvinid is Eyvindr kinnrifa, a heathen chieftain lived in Uppgard. When king Olaf Tryggvason forcefully carried out the Christianization of Norway, he led a host resisting the king, but were captured. The king presented two options for him: baptize, or be killed. And well, he refused to baptize. Not that he had the other option. His parents struggled to have children, so they asked for the aid of the Sámi sorcerers who called an air spirit into his mother's womb. Because of him being a wild spirit animating a meat suit by magic, not a human, he was unable to receive baptism. And so down to Hel our Eyvindr.

Due to his strange nature, every single ghostly descendant of him, as long as he can be found somewhere in their lineage tree, is unable to be anything aside from heathen, unable to Christianize (or secularize, for that matter) themselves. As his presence in one's ancestry would create this unshaking ties, Eyvindr became the catalyst of unity among the Álfar and their common spiritual ancestor, who the Eyvinids claimed themselves to be the direct progenies of. It's debatable, but regardless of your view about this claim, they are considered by both outsiders and other Álfar (sometimes grudgingly) to be the overrepresentation of all Álfar. The Eyvinid organized themselves into clans, called Húsa, which formed the basis of their identity, legal standing, support network and social life. There is no constant structure across different clans, reflecting their dislikes of formality in their daily lives, even though their dealings across many different clans are more regulated, as navigating though different Eyvinid clans is just pure hel (pun not intended haha). In a larger scale, their society is mediated by lugiheraður - cultural laws; Mentiskyldur - the Guilds; Varðverður - more commonly referred to as the Gatekeepery; and the Aðferðskólar - the famed Álfar Bureaucracy. Vengeful, quarrelsome, chaotic, cliquey and nepotistic,