Exodus
The Exodus is the name given to the flight that followed The Desolation. Escaping the hunger of the sands, the survivors travelled north and came to the lands known today as the Lands of Exile, seeking refuge among humans whom the disaster had not touched.1
Before the flight
Humans had lived in the northern part of Caligran long before the Desolation and the Exodus that followed it.2 Before the Exodus, the peoples of Teneris lived by pushing the limits of magic across the world.1
The elves were not born to be mortal: before the Desolation and the Exodus they were all entirely immortal, and today their lives last roughly a thousand years.3 Their calendar, the Year Tree, was designed above all for that immortal existence.4
The flight north
As the mortal survivors fled north, the surviving gods were forced to withdraw to the higher planes and rise into the heavens.1 Aquaron protected the elves as they fled the Desolation, granting them sturdy ships and a calm sea.5 The legendary Starseeker Academy is named after elves who found their way by the stars during that flight.6
Refuge
Only after the Desolation were the wise, graceful, skilled and ancient races forced to seek refuge in the north; the long-lived races came to the Lands of Exile after the Exodus.7 At that time the land was divided among five human kingdoms.8
The Order of Palanthor was founded by human knights to watch over the refugees and keep the promises of safety made to them. Its knights serve as guarantors of the agreements made with the refugees from the south, which makes the order older than the Empire itself.9 The elven races that survived the Desolation live in the Da’fat Federation thanks to ancient agreements made with the humans after the Exodus.2
Memory
Among the people of the Lands of Exile, those a little better informed may know, vaguely and as a story, where the name of the Lands of Exile comes from and what the Exodus was.10
Notes
- ↑BookLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, p. 10
- ↑BookLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, p. 2
- ↑BookLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, p. 43
- ↑BookLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, p. 5
- ↑BookLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, p. 29
- ↑BookBook of Dead, p. 42
- ↑BookLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, pp. 2, 10
- ↑BookShadow Over Vansreik, p. 33
- ↑BookLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, pp. 10, 41
- ↑BookLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, p. 3
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