Aradu (air AH doo)

the First Settlement

Built by the Alumite of mythology in the Randond Period, best guess in 4600 pre-sc, Aradu is considered the first settlement, if it existed at all. Its location is unknown to history. There is some speculation to a possible location being in the valleys of the southern Cutting Mountains' foothills due to a reference in the Urzan Papyrus calling the hills north of Aterleg the 'Hills of Aradu that sat at the foot of Wat Qu Waten (the ancient's name for the Cutting Mountain.)

The only other known record of Aradu in ancient text is recorded in the earliest Stonefoot Carvings found in a southern Cutting Mountains cavern. This carving gives the location in an unspecified foothill valley. They also describe the structures created as circles of stone piles with sticks or straw caps, just large enough for two people to sleep within. The text describe building these as a marriage ritual, with the couple collecting and building the structure together as a sign to the tribe of the union between them.

It is stated in the Stonefoot Carvings that once the Alumite expanded out of Garden and the protection from Aterleg's canopy, the people needed shelter. Something that has confused modern scholars as it is documented in the Epic of Can and the Sacred Codex that the Daemon people, of which Alumite were, could control the world around them at will and their bodies were not affected by the heat or cold of weather. Many point out however that the Stonefoot Carvings that do mention Aradu were created in the Randagri Period, some 2000 years later, with the shelter theory being a misunderstanding of the oral legends from which they were recorded.

The settlement is abandon somewhere around 3500 pre-sc. The Araduns lead by they leader Terg, and the Dragon called Girgungal the Copper, into Wat Qa Waten (the Cutting Cutting Mountains) to find a valley of 'strange stone,' what we know as Copper today.

Aradu, myth or truth, is largely unknown to the world outside of the Dwarf people, and a few scholars that study the ancient past. If such a settlement existed 10,000 years ago nothing of it remains in the modern day to be found.