Maragor
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In David Eddings's works The Belgariad and The Malloreon, Maragor is the land of the extinct people, the Marags. The Marags were the children of the God Mara. Seeking to take for themselves the large amounts of gold that existed in the streams and rivers of Maragor, the legions of Tolnedra swept in to Maragor and wiped out the Marags. Mara remained in the ruins of Maragor's capital, also named Maragor, mourning his lost children and protecting the ruins of Maragor from gold hunters, until the descendent of a Marag taken as a slave by the Murgos named Taiba and her Ulgo husband Relg moved back to Maragor to regenerate the lost race.
The Marags were often seen as savages by the other races due to their practice of cannibalism. Belgarath points out in Belgarath the Sorceror that the Marags only cannibalized members of other races, and only did so due to a misreading of Mara's scriptures. He also says that nine out of every ten Marags was female. Polgara dislikes the Marags because of their cannibalism.
