Aléathian Odyssey

The is the name of the sea voyages of ian fugitives from the, (572-573 ). A month before the City of fell to the Tekhosians, four-hundred nobles, priests, soldiers, artisans, merchants and farmers, chosen by lot, and most children under the age of twelve, boarded a motley fleet of some fifty ships and sailed eastward into the, with the aim of founding a new Aléath. The expedition was organized over a period of several years by clan Melesen, originally immigrants from.

Written accounts of the Odyssey describe horrific weather and fanciful sea monsters. The foul weather of the Gulf broke the fleet into small flotillas; many vessels disappeared without trace. Legends about stray ships, have them founding colonies at various, likely and unlikely, spots. Fully half of those ships who set sail from Aléath were lost. The rest eventually managed to assemble at the island of where they were ed by the the. There (or possible before, the records are ambiguous) the refugees met with, a of Mèlderýn, and under his guidance, they sailed through the  to found the city of  in 573.

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