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==== The Great Journey ==== | ==== The Great Journey ==== | ||
Whatever the reason for this exodus, the movement of Nogeaths across northern [[Levantia]] is obvious from around 502 BC onwards. Written sources from the more advanced cultures in this region speak of long caravans of weary travellers passing major settlements, with accounts of similar occurrences common over the next 200 year period. It seems the Nogeath camped on beaches or lower sections of the coastline so they could continue to fish to provide food, and this in addition to occasional hunting meant they had little need to steal from those they passed. This lack of trouble making meant they were tolerated, if not wholly accepted, by the resident citizens of northern Levantia. Despite this, they tended to skirt major settlements and avoid the locals, and most accounts are clouded with a sense of mystery around the travellers, an attitude that went on to influence political relations on both sides for many years to come. | Whatever the reason for this exodus, the movement of Nogeaths across northern [[Levantia]] is obvious from around 502 BC onwards. Written sources from the more advanced cultures in this region speak of long caravans of weary travellers passing major settlements, with accounts of similar occurrences common over the next 200 year period. It seems the Nogeath camped on beaches or lower sections of the coastline so they could continue to fish to provide food, and this in addition to occasional hunting meant they had little need to steal from those they passed. This lack of trouble making meant they were tolerated, if not wholly accepted, by the resident citizens of northern Levantia. Despite this, they tended to skirt major settlements and avoid the locals, and most accounts are clouded with a sense of mystery around the travellers, an attitude that went on to influence political relations on both sides for many years to come. | ||
==== Settling Tarsa ==== | |||
The connection between the flow of people across northern Levantia and those who began to settle Tarsa just a few years later, is in the most part circumstantial, but it's hard to see where else these settlers could have come from. This, in addition to cultural similarities with the Nogeath who settled Vithinja, and comparative analysis of tools found by archaeologists on both sides of the ocean (pioneered by renowned Olmerian historian [[Philip Norström]]), mean historians are reasonably convinced of their connection. How exactly they reached Tarsa from the northern Levantia coast is a matter of speculation, with the trail of evidence running almost dry around where the modern day [[Faneria]]-[[Caergwynn]] border (on the north coast) lies. | |||
=== The Great Chieftains === | === The Great Chieftains === | ||