Humanity Leaves Edane

Population Migration / Travel

More than 150 years ago Maferath unleashed his greatest weapons, the Balor, against the world. In the decades and centuries that followed constituting the Age of Blood, Maferath's war on the children of Solun drives the human race (as the war was most prominently centralized around Edane) to flee their home lands and find safer harbors.

More than 150 years ago Maferath unleashed his greatest weapons, the Balor, against the world. In the decades and centuries that followed constituting the Age of Blood, Maferath's war on the children of Solun drives the human race (as the war was most prominently centralized around Edane) to flee their home lands and find safer harbors.

This era of exodus began with the settlers who discovered and arrived on the shores of Buwan, but it did not stop there. With no ability to navigate across the open ocean, and many fearing the world did not exist beyond the horizon, most human tribes fleeing the wars of Edane did so by heading south past the Mountains of Creation and into the lands that would one day become the embattled lands of Ibesh.

During this exodus, when passing through the mountains, it is believed that human tribes first encountered the dwarves. There is no historical text that confirms this, or verifies which tribes encountered them first, but ancient engravings on the walls of recently excavated dwarven realms in the region have lead scholars to believe this. The most complete engravings were found in the ancient city of Caer Mindhall which describes a flood of "giants" that passed through the region for different lands in the south to evade the destroyer and his wars on their homelands. The account also details the dwarves' interactions with these "giants" and their commerce within them.

While many of the tribes fleeing the destroyer passed south along the coast or through the mountains into Ibesh, many of them decided to head west into the new world. News spread quickly throughout Edane or Buwan's discovery, a new land allegedly unspoiled by Maferath's war.

The passage was not one easily undertaken though. At this time none of the tribes had the ability to navigate across open ocean, limiting sailors to stay within sight of the coastline. The southernmost point of Buwan and the nearest coastline of Edane was still stretch of several hundred miles of open ocean taking sailors anywhere from two to four days travel time, possibly longer pending the weather. As it was, most of the tribes did not have boats built strong enough for the rough waters of the open sea, furthermore with no way to navigate to Buwan the trip had a success rate of 1 out of three ships making land. It demonstrates the desperation of the inhabitants of Edane that we see journal entries, letters and historical records indicating that hundreds of ships departed from the continent in search of the safer harbors of Buwan.