Kareden /kʌ'riːdn/ were the people who are first mentioned in relation to conquests in central and northern Tarnaria, led by Prince Kol. They then conquered Osa Nara and Xornerian and founded the Kingdom of Mamkoon.

200 years later, when the Kingdom of Mamkoon collapsed, massive Kareden migrations to the Overpol Region and to northern Tarnaria followed, after which Kareden disappear from the pages of history.

Based on what is known of their language, religion and traditions, they likely originated in central Tarnaria.

However, they did seem not have a written language and the only texts left after Mamkoon are mostly biased texts by their enemies. These texts contend that the Kareden were unpopular and feared. They had a strong sense of etchnic identity, and being a true Kareden was the only way to get far in society in Mamkoon.

Kareden were devotees of a variant of Xaewoon that postulated a promised land for its people, and the Kareden were on a quest to find the promised land to settle in. Prince Kol was their religious leader, thought to be the Kasanja, the “prophet of far away lands”, who has the vision to find Mamkoon, a “promised land”.

Kareden conquests in Tarnaria won them many possible sites, but those proved to be unsuccessful for various reasons, and they continued to venture north, until in a two-year conquest they have unexpectedly conquered Ossa Nara.

Kareden spoke a variant of the jabi language. They had no written language and despised the concept. They believed that true knowledge can only be passed from generation to generation, and that the written word corrupts knowledge.

Due to this attitude, they destroyed a lot of libraries across Osa Nara, although after the campaign was over, King Anashary treated the osanarian culture with indifference, and some libraries were preserved. However, osanarians were ostracized and regarded as inferior due to the fact that they had no true knowledge, as all their knowledge came from books.

On the other hand, the peoples that had been enslaved by osanarians were given much better treatment because most of them had retained their oral traditions.