Lataan Rigo’s notes on the Quilderran:

I have found the Quilderran to be much as I was told.  They are a savage people, still dwelling deep within the forest and relying for their sustenance principally upon the hunt and gather.  As to be expected, then, the Quilderran remain a loosely-organized (some would say disorganized) tribal society, at the head of which is their so-called “Osinella.”  The word “Osinella,” for what I can tell, roughly translates to “mother” in our tongue, or perhaps “queen”—though I personally find the latter too strong.  At present it is not even clear who the Osinella actually is.  Most believe her to be Tiamala, about whom little is known save a rumor that she changes from woman to beast.

Any rate the Quilderran most certainly are a matriarchal society, serving as they do their Osinella and worshipping their so-called “Deva Osinella,” or “first mother.”  This is, sadly, but another of the many reasons the Quilderran are so widely derided in the west, as the Deva Osinella is but a mere demi-goddess and not worthy of such full-scale devotion.  To their credit I have found the Quilderran I’ve encountered to be pleasant enough, if perhaps aloof and dismissive of human modernity.  These are a people who simply do not understand the virtues of our institutions.  But they can be tolerated, and perhaps someday freed from their ignorance.  There is certainly no truth to the recent fears, regrettably held by some in Horl, that the Quilderran are a militant slave society with territorial aspirations.