So, with Vardaros, I imagine their people are made up of a lot of people who were native to North America, the Native Indians (or Vardarans in this case) the Mayans, and also African people (I know they weren't apart of North America but yknow, ofc, Africa lmao but I wanted to add them too) Also, everyone who is of direct decent of these the first Vardarans are Native Vardaran
Nowadays in the Vardaros there are very few Native Vardarans left as there has been immigration of course meaning mixes of culture and also, in the times of when the first Vardarans were here many of them started dying off due to diseases they did not know how to combat. The first Vardarans did not know much of medicines or alchemy and that was when they had gotten a few immigrants (these would've been the people based on African culture, the people of Native Imdian and Mayan culture had already been there) they knew quite a bit about alchemy and medicines and were able to help out (this is based on the West African religion Vodun in relation to voodoo)
After about 2-3 centuries of living there more immigrants came (these would be people from European culture except they would not be conquerors however, peaceful people)
Due to so many immigrants they started to run out of resources, the new immigrants had taught them of farming though, which helped as they had only been hunting and looking for food in the wild
Of course, not long after, disaster struck again, more disease and illness killing off more of the first Vardarans leaving mainly the new immigrants that had come (similar to when the Europeans came and purposely brought people with illness to kill off the Natives except in this case, not on purpose)
Years passed and less people with direct lineage to the first Vardarans remained, some of the few people left that were are Vex, Captain Quaid, and Lady Caine (headcanons)
When the Baron and his cronies came it was basically like the European colonizers coming over with the reign of terror he brought, and instead of bringing illnesses to kill people he would kill them himself, he made it very clear that if you tried to defy him you were dead
Lady Caine Backstory (hcs)
Lady Caine had been born in Vardaros (her whole family had also been born in Vardaros, they were some of the people who would be based in Native Indian culture, I also hc Vex to be one of the people based in Native Indian culture) and lived there until she was about four years old and then they moved to Corona for better opportunities
Not long after moving to Corona the baby princess had been kidnapped and times in the kingdom had gotten hard, a lot of people had to result to thievery and crime to live, Caine's father had been able to afford basic necessities but one night they didn't have much, he couldn't even feed Caine so he stole a bit of food and had gotten taken to jail as he got caught, he rotted in there for the rest of his life
Caine had to survive on the streets, keeping clear of royal guards and resulted to thievery herself, she held a deep hatred towards to royal family as they took her father away just for a small crime, she had heard after a few years later some of the prisoners taken (when she was 4) were dead, including her father
She knew she had to avenge her father, she marinated on this for years, getting up to high power and finally being able to carry out her revenge (yall know the rest of the events in TTS)
During her time in jail after her third time getting arrested she thought about all she had done, she realized that this life of crime would not bring honor to her father, she behaved herself and got let out early and decided to travel back to Vardaros where she was simply farming but then decided she could do more, she went to help Quaid and Vex bring justice to Vardaros
She had been a pretty big criminal before so she was sure she could be a good help
Vex didn't trust Caine at first but learned to trust her and even looked up to her as a big sister
When she started working with them she started to see Quaid as a dad, she felt really happy being there and helping them, she hoped it could make up for what she did, she hoped that if her dad were alive that he'd be proud
(I'm a major CassCaine shipper do there's CassCaine stuff ahead too lol)
After Cass decided to travel around with her father she eventually came to Vardaros and saw.. Lady Caine? What was she doing out of jail! (Cass hadn't gotten word of Caine's release)
She was suspicious at first, especially at hearing that Caine turned over a new leaf and was helping Vardaros but after staying for longer she realized Caine had changed, she wanted to help people
She started to fall for Caine and Caine fell for her, Cass asked Caine to come with her on her journey but Caine said she couldn't for now, she wanted to stay and continue helping the people of Vardaros but maybe she would join her one day in the future, but for now she wouldn't
I'm Native myself and there isn't enough Native rep but I love the idea of Vardaros being a Native community, of some of my favorite characters being Native
Also, forgot to state this, not all African people in this world would have immigrated to Vardaros so not every African character would be Native Vardaran
Like for example, Lance, I'm not sure if I'd count him as part of it but if he's ever confirmed to be from Vardaros then yeah
