Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-14222126-20130805101858

Does anyone have an idea to whom the Askelde Men refers to?

These ashen brutes, the Askelde Men Set to a gruesome task, each bowstring bent...

...Yet one elder turned and unblinking, stared

into the vapor-soul of me, his nostrils flared

He bellowed ancient words, his beard aflame

And my vision fell away, Peace at last came

My thinking is that it could refer to the Ashlanders themselves, but frankly my understanding of this poem is somewhat unclear. 