Witsustoge (wiʦuˈstoge)

While the winds howled outside, Gemna and her friends were warm inside the caves they called home. The elders said it was the coldest winter they had ever seen. But in the warmth of the caves, it was hard to tell.
Gemna heard something, a barely audible rumble. At first, she thought nothing of it, but it quickly grew in volume and the others heard it to. She heard the watch yelling "Avalanche!" as the forward watch sprinted beck to the safety of the caves. While they were rare, avalanches happened often enough that Gemna wasn't worried, except for the immediate safety of the forward watch.
But then she heard a more imminent rumbling, that she had never heard before. As she looked toward the entrances of the caves, she saw the ceiling begin to fall upon the forward watch. That was the beginning of the longest suffering Gemna ever knew.

The Great Crashing was a catastrophic avalanche and cave in that trapped the Yibiduri people within their homes for several months, leading to the deaths of many and the eventual migration out of their homes in the Untsadpa Mountains.
The Yibiduri had lived in the Untsadpa Mountains within an extensive cave system since the start of the Fourth Age. After decades of living peacefully within the caves, they encountered a particularly bad winter.
For weeks, all the members of the community remained within the safety of the caves for security and warmth, venturing out only occasionaly to supplement their stores. Then, without warning, an avalanche followed immediately by a cavein of the outer sections of the caves trapped all of the Yibiduri inside their homes.
The Yibiduri were unable to clear the rubble of the cavein. They did not have the equipment to move such large quantities of rocks, especially as they were primarily comprised of large boulders. So they remained trapped within their caves, unable to leave. As the weeks wore into months, their stores of food and heating material gradually depleted. People begain to die of starvation and hypothermia.
The people resigned themselves to their eventual demise. Until they heard concusive explosions outside the caves. The ones they'd call Idjib had used magic to detect the presence of hundreds of people within the moutain and set out to rescue them.
Eventually, the people were rescued, with the Yibiduri and the Idjib venturing together to the foothills and settling in what would become Vidapa.

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