The Exodus from the Isles

[Samson Option 9652]

𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅗𝅥𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅮

 

 

Trade diminishing, droughts coupled with disease, and population decline from conflict; all of these are recipes for the decline of a land and its people. The latter can leave the former and gamble for a resurgence in a healthier home and a change of setting. The Vistulian confederacy of tribes had a backstory of tried and true migration, particularly the Cingedoz and the Radaghasts, with the former hailing from the Rathonian Mountains of Dunrath and the latter having migrated many times throughout the era of Arcas.

 

No man is an island and no people can survive independent of another polity or network of peoples. With the dereliction and desertion of towns including Caer Raewyn, Chaldees, Hyspia, & Redclyf; the flow of trade slowed to a trickle and restricted access to both necessities and luxuries that once aided the Cingedoz tribe in particular. This tribe, having suffered the loss of inbound trade, found it more difficult to manage its coffer which served the greater economy in Vistulia.

 

A mysterious rot that ate away at the various woods used in the construction of structures peppered across the isles drove more than just the Cingedoz to consider migration. The death of Casimir Vilchyc, head of the Radaghastian tribe, in a sequence of events that saw Vistulians cross onto the Old Savoyard mainland and abandon the isles themselves left the executive decision to migrate with Gabriel Law-Keeper of the Pasciak tribe.

 

Recent battles and conflicts spanning as far back as the incidents during the old alliance with the Horde to the Skavic incursion and the naga assaults in the surrounding bay slowly whittled away the population on the Vistulian Isles. This reality barred the Vistulians from waging an offensive against the various plague-bringers who assailed the islands and thus Gabriel Law-Keeper chose to set the tribes on a migration. The initial sail across the Narrow Sea and along the eastern coast of mainland Almaris, started and finished without incident.

 

The Vistulians, composed of the remaining Radaghasts, the Cingedoz, Kos, and Pasciak tribe, led wagon, wain, and wheeled-carts westward through snowy mountain ranges and boreal wetlands until they reached the outskirts of Norland. Brennus hal’Cingedoz, Dalebor Kos, & Gabriel Law-Keeper traveled with a small contingent on a diplomatic mission to begin relations with the Dwedmar Undercity of Khron’Hundmar. The diplomatic embassy returned to the Vistulian camps with a promising agreement with the Lord Darek Irongrinder and shortly thereafter received King Odin of Norland with a likewise promising offer.

 

Gabriel and Brennus convened privately and agreed upon two encampments forming with the Radaghasts, Kos, & Pascians settling in Alisgrad and the Cingedoz settling on the plateau overlooking Khron’Hundmar. The first encampment would bolster the population of Norland and the second encampment would construct battlements, palisades, and a hamlet above the Dwedmar undercity. The two elders of their respective tribes agreed to share resources and to encourage trade and travel and Brennus pledged to support Gabriel as he had supported Casimir before.