What to call this population

[Kit]

My MC's live in loose transient camps deep in a swamp.

I need a way for them to refer to the farmers, city folk, etc who do not live in the swamps. Don't want to use "drylanders" because isn't "wetlanders" what Jordan used for the non-Aiel? "Outlanders" seems kind of hackneyed as well. I'm drawing a blank. Any ideas? Trying to keep it kind of simple. The name may be slightly contemptuous, but I'm not wedded to that.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

 

[Benjamin Clayborne]

Dryfoots, dryfeet, dirtfeet, dirtwalkers, dirtsiders. I don't think "drylanders" is that big a deal, as long as the swamp folks aren't anything like the Aiel. To the Aiel, the wetlanders were a strange "other" rather than just being people who happened to not live in the wastelands. They were culturally completely different. I don't know how your swamp folk relate to your non-swamp folk, but that would affect it.

 

[Kit]

Thanks, I like a couple of those ideas a lot better than anything I was coming up with!

Also considering something referring to the non-swamp folk wearing shoes while the swamp folk never do. ("Shod Ones"?)

No way on "drylanders", though- I *really* want to avoid any Jordanization in my story!

 

[sashamerideth]

Your drylanders could be called leatherfeet, after the leather used to make their shoes.

 

[DrakO]

A bit more simple, no? Swamp People?

 

[CharlieDay]

What about Dryskins?

 

[Devor]

Your drylanders could be called leatherfeet, after the leather used to make their shoes.

Following this, something like Boarfoots.

 

[Solomon Tan]

Swamp things? just joking..

Hmmm... any other characteristics to differ the two? Like does the swamp folks harvest food from the swamp, or are they avoiding the non swamp folks due to their way of life? Or were they outcasts? not everyone loves the swamp...

 

[Phoenix]

"The Dry People?' To be quiet honest anything involving dry would probably work. If the Swap people are simple minded a name like that won't seem so stupid.

 

[Kit]

They're not simple-minded, just direct... and unlikely to use some flowery eight-syllable name when something more no-nonsense will do.