But the barbarians were for many years the slaves of the dominant brown-skinned culture, especially for mining and agriculture (as we learn in both “The Tale of Gorgik” and Neveryóna) -and in many places still are. By the time the stories start, clearly some amount of racial mixing has occurred. Barbarian tribes live to the south: a people with pale skin, yellow hair, and light eyes. The men and women of the reigning civilization have brown to black skin. The modern-day geographical location of Nevèrÿon is never made clear. Nevèrÿon (pronounced "Ne-VER-y-on" according to the preface to "Tales of Nevèrÿon") is the land the stories are set in, a name derived from the aristocratic neighborhood of Neveryóna (pronounced "Ne-ver-y-O-na") in the capital city Kolhari.
The eleven tales that make up Return to Nevèrÿon are set before the dawn of history.
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