Small bands of hunters and fishers in the thick taiga between the Sayan, the upper Angara and the Baikal peoples.
They have no state and no chief named. How they touch the steppe is not recorded; furs are the likely link.
Who holds it
- Title
- Hunter bands, no leader named
- Since
- not known
- Born
- not known
- Family
- not known
- Confidence
- low
Later records give Samoyedic and Turkic hunters and fishers in the Sayan and Angara taiga (Kamasin and others), and Mongolic Buryat clans on its south-eastern edge. For 1200 no names are known.
Overlord
None attested.
What it holds
- Hunting and fishing country
How it was acquired
By long use.
Allies and rivals
Neighbours of the Tumat and the Buryat ancestors; the Kyrgyz to the west.
How things stand that morning
Scattered in winter camps on the rivers.
Wealth
Furs; no figures.
Military
Hunters; no numbers.
Threats
- Dzud and famine
Places of note
- Nizhneudinsk valley winter camps (approximate): Approximate.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: A placeholder for a people whose names are lost.
On the map: A catch-all for unnamed peoples.
Sources and studies
- Wikipedia, Mongol campaigns in Siberia
- Rashid al-Din, Jami al-tawarikh (Thackston translation, 1998-99), Keraites and Merkits chapters. Quoted from memory; not re-read this session
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.