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===Origins=== | ===Origins=== | ||
Northern and western Levantia were rendered uninhabitable by the last great Ice Age, with much of the region covered in an ice cap hundreds or thousands of metres thick and the rest reduced to a barren, cold desert; whatever human groups (or other hominids) had previously lived in the region were forced south, only to return after the ice had melted. In the aftermath, a dramatically different geography took shape; the land gradually rebounded from its compression under the ice, cutting off what had previously been a long, narrow bay into an isolated sea-lake - the [[Vandarch]]. The narrow Pervalian Isthmus formed a new land bridge between the two regions, which would in time become a migration route of major importance. The ice's retreat was gradually followed by many migrating [[Paleo-Levantine]] | Northern and western Levantia were rendered uninhabitable by the last great Ice Age, with much of the region covered in an ice cap hundreds or thousands of metres thick and the rest reduced to a barren, cold desert; whatever human groups (or other hominids) had previously lived in the region were forced south, only to return after the ice had melted. In the aftermath, a dramatically different geography took shape; the land gradually rebounded from its compression under the ice, cutting off what had previously been a long, narrow bay into an isolated sea-lake - the [[Vandarch]]. The narrow Pervalian Isthmus formed a new land bridge between the two regions, which would in time become a migration route of major importance. The ice's retreat was gradually followed by many migrating [[Paleo-Levantine peoples]], entirely culturally and linguistically unrelated from both each other and the proto-Occidentals who form the ancestors of most modern Levantine cultures.<ref>Most of these Paleo-Levantine peoples have been wiped out or assimilated in the centuries since, with very little trace of their survival; the Nünsyak and the various Orenstian peoples such as the [[Khunyer people|Khunyer]] are the most prominent survivors.</ref> | ||
These peoples were gradually supplanted across much of northern Levantia by the branch of the proto-Occidentals who would go on to become the Ancient Gaels. The Ancient Goths, migrating from their presumed ''Urheimat'' in what is now southern Carna in response to pressure from their south and east, were mostly restricted to the [[Odoneru]]-[[Kilikas Sea|Kilikas]] littoral. Constrained by the punishing mountainous terrain that has divided [[Ultmar]] into Ocean-facing and Vandarch-facing regions down to the present day, and by the stiff resistance of various Paleo-Levantine groups along the southern Vandarch watershed, the Ancient Goths were only gradually able to make their way northwards. Archaeological evidence suggests that Ancient Goths - or people adopting the cultural forms of the Ancient Goths - became the ruling elite in western [[Yonderre]] and eastern [[Eldmora-Regulus]] by no later than 1000 BC. | These peoples were gradually supplanted across much of northern Levantia by the branch of the proto-Occidentals who would go on to become the Ancient Gaels. The Ancient Goths, migrating from their presumed ''Urheimat'' in what is now southern Carna in response to pressure from their south and east, were mostly restricted to the [[Odoneru]]-[[Kilikas Sea|Kilikas]] littoral. Constrained by the punishing mountainous terrain that has divided [[Ultmar]] into Ocean-facing and Vandarch-facing regions down to the present day, and by the stiff resistance of various Paleo-Levantine groups along the southern Vandarch watershed, the Ancient Goths were only gradually able to make their way northwards. Archaeological evidence suggests that Ancient Goths - or people adopting the cultural forms of the Ancient Goths - became the ruling elite in western [[Yonderre]] and eastern [[Eldmora-Regulus]] by no later than 1000 BC. | ||