Throughout most of the Third Age these people were widely known as Khandians but after the Wainrider was, the Nazgûl installed a newly formed northern Dynasty from within the lines of Mercenary clans who had fought against Gondor in the Great Wars.These Elite-Warriors were knows as Variags, a term that was often used by outsiders to denote the entire population of Khand, although in Khand itself the term dsignated only a single social class.