Venedic Woodsmen (AOR)
Light Infantry(0.6.7)Side / Back
Short description
Slav-Progenitors; striking out from woodland dwellings, with wooden-tipped weapons.
Description
When and where the first Slavs emerged, remains a controversial and uncertain topic. A common theory is that they emerged somewhere around the Pripet Marshes – near Chernobyl – and for many centuries coexisted with Germanics, Sarmatians and their Baltic cousins; but occupying ecological niches spurned by those others, such as mountains, marshes and deep forests. Those circumstances would explain why the Slavs went unnoticed by Greco-Roman authors until the sixth century AD. Of course, tribes that would later be identified as Slavic, were known even earlier: Tacitus' recorded the Venedi already in AD 98, but rather typically he ended up classifying them as Germanic. After all, no Slavic category existed yet, and they could not have been Sarmatian, he argued, given that they fought on foot and carried shields.