"What we call the First Age was primarily a securing and consolidating of the land that the Five Families settled after the Long March. By that time what we nowadays call the Homeland was far from the home we know today, nor was it in any sense of the word a continous territory that could be called land. Still, the Five Families had come a long way to find it, and they were not about to give up now." - First Chronicler Varchas