Coming of the Atlanteans

Population Migration / Travel

In the continent of Lados the Atlanteans arrived from the north, marching southward and conquering everything in their path. Despite resistance from the native elves, the invaders occupied the region in totality.

The first great historical shift to take place in the western Plains of Sull came with the arrival of the Hyperboreans, who marched southward through the lands where Eastreach Province is now found. The vast legion, under the leadership of Polemarch Oerson, reached the Great Amrin River, conquering the tribes they encountered, and continued to move downriver along its banks, also at that time the edge of the Great Akadonian Forest.   Crossing the Great Amrin, the legion followed the edge of the forest to the Gaelon River, and then began the process of conquering the plains to the east. As the pacification of the Ancient Ones in the plain continued, Oerson’s conquered territory continued to edge southward across a short spur of the Gundlock Hills and then south to the Lorremach Highhills. Finally prepared to confront the elves of the forest, Oerson’s forces began a systematic pattern of raiding and small-scale fortification, including the occupation of the small tribal town of Manas located in a deep notch in the forest where seasonal mud kept the forest from growing as a contiguous mass, breaking it into numerous small woods.   Unbeknownst to the Hyperboreans, news from the embattled elven nobles facing Oerson’s raids had reached the greater elven lords beyond the Towers, and a vast elven host had been gathered from far and wide to repel the attacking humans. This army arrived at the forest’s eastern edge and hammered the Hyperborean army back northward in defeat. Oerson pulled his forces back along the same route he had followed into the region, a dramatic escape from annihilation known as Oerson’s Perilous March.   The Hyperborean legion occupied itself in the east, making vast conquests in unthinkably rapid succession, including a now-legendary defeat of the elven high lords in the area of the Stoneheart Valley. Oerson eventually returned to the Borderlands area and re-occupied the plains with no effective opposition remaining from the elves. Moving southward across the Wilderland Hills, the Hyperboreans encountered the Heldring barbarians of the Helcynngae Peninsula, and suffered their second major defeat. Unable to subdue the Heldrings, the Hyperboreans drew their borders back to the natural barrier of the Lorremach Highhills, building the fortress of Stronghold Hjerrin to secure the gap between the Lorremach and the Forlorn Mountains.   Somewhere in this history, one of the mysteries of ancient civilization emerges. The Hyperborean record indicates the fortification and settlement of areas once covered by the Great Akadonian Forest not long before. There exists no record as to whether the forests receded due to some sort of tree blight, or the activity of the Hyperboreans themselves; it may have been some combination of both. Certainly, trading posts and small fortifications were built in the the Ramparts, once firmly within the perimeter of the forest. There is ample evidence that the Hyperboreans cut massive roadtrails through the forest, but such activity does not seem to explain any sort of general deforestation. By all record, the area of the great forest remained very heavily wooded, but the trees no longer formed an unbroken whole.   As the conquest of the Borderland Provinces region took hold, Hyperborean civilization did too, establishing the first great tide of civilization.