The Orma, who are predisposed to blindness, are another Mannish race that inhabits the marsh. The human inhabitants of Black Marsh ( Imperial settlers from the Cyrodiilic Empire notwithstanding) include the Horwalli, the Yespest, and the silver-skinned Kothringi.
Īside from the Argonians, Black Marsh is host to a slew of other sapient peoples. The native Argonians organize themselves on the tribal level with success and efficiency, and were only loosely integrated into the ruling Empire when Cyrodiilic Emperors deigned to lay claim to the land. Foreign agricultural, colonial, and commercial ventures beyond the slave-trade have met with abject failure. The region's tropical climate lends its plants the capacity to overturn all attempts to cultivate them. The Argonians thrive in the foreboding swamps of Black Marsh, a lush and threatening land teeming with poisonous plants and violent predators. A member of the Argonian Gee-Rusleel tribe once used the wide-swamp gesture alongside the word 'kronka-thatith' (roughly meaning 'everything-egg') to describe the region, which is probably the closest non-Jel speakers will ever get in the way of a 'true name' for the region. The Argonians do not have a word for their homeland in their native language.
Black Marsh is a dense swampland region of southeastern Tamriel, home to the reptilian humanoid race of Argonians and a race of sapient trees known as the Hist.
