Allah'kkhayma

A long, long time ago, an entire society of people was displaced from their home. It happened so long ago, records of the event are extremely scarce. Evidently, the people were rejected by every settlement on the supercontinent. They had no choice but to enter the only unwanted, and therefore uninhabited, place they could find; the incredibly vast, arid desert that stretched across the entire interior of Rodinia. Thousands of wagon caravans traveled day after day, looking for refuge and finding none. Each night, they would stop traveling, circle their wagons, pitch their tents, and settle in to get some rest. Each morning, they would pack up their belongings, set out across the desert, and continue their quest for a safe place they could call home.
Over the years, the people became expert at not only surviving in the desert, but thriving there. Their population grew into the millions. At the same time, the wagon caravans started uniting for mutual benefit and defense. Thousands became hundreds, which became tens, and eventually, all the caravans united into one single massive wagon caravan, a hundred miles long and a mile wide.
When the megacaravan stopped traveling to settle in for the night, a vast tent city would appear in the desert, stretching farther than a person could see from the ground. The only way to see the entire city was to climb to the top of the Royal Family's tent in the city's center. The city contained areas for wagon repair, animal husbandry, laundry services, and governmental administration. Tens of thousands of solar-powered lanterns, emitting a light greenish hue, would swing in the wind, giving the impression of a massive cloud of fireflies. The Faithful call this settlement Allah'kkhayma (Arabic for "God's Tent"). This massive mobile settlement would appear in a different location every night.
At some point in their history, The Faithful realized that they could stop searching for a refuge because the massive city they had assembled was the refuge they required. Home isn't a static physical location; it's where you and your loved ones pitch your tent stakes for the night.

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