Yankees

On Valdennia, Yankee is the catch-all term used to describe every person who arrived from Earth on the transport ship Ogunquit in the year 1865. This is generally the name used by all peoples and races of Valdennia to describe this group, rather than the demonym 'American'.

Most of those on board the Ogunquit were Union soldiers of the 35th Maine and the 44th New York, but the crew of the Oguinquit survived the crossing through the Tunnel of Light, as did a nurse from the Christian Sanitation Commission, Kathleeen O'Reilly. O'Reilly was the only female among the Yankees.

The word Yankee has a disputed origin, but at the time of the crossing it generally referred to people from the northern states of the United States that did not secede in 1861.