The Book of Settlements

The following is the English translation of the Book of Settlements, the fourth addition to the Inkling Sagas.

=First wave: The Lylwenė=

The many island nations of Dwisgavar had warred against each other ever since they first rose. Over time the fighting took its toll as the humans had wiped each other out apart from a few scattered island nation and cities. Among those extant settlements were two islands named Tolk and Alt. Tolk was a city made of rock and marble and beautiful mosaics decorated the walls and floors of this place. Life and joy were bountiful in this city until the men of Alt pointed their raiding minds towards Tolk. The men of Alt travelled in a curious manner by travelling not by boats upon the surface but by inside the mouths of whales.The men of Alt have a form of symbiotic relationship with a breed of whale which they used for travel and fishing and in return they offer food from the land which would be otherwise out of reach for the water dwellers. When the men of Alt wished to travel in a whale they would stand on the shore and chant this song, named Săkwá Panararẹ (“the song of the whale”):

Come, O great creature of the wet path,

Carry us on your endless swim,

And receive from us a purpose,

Give us breath under the surface,

And receive from us the fruits of the land,

Carry us to Tolk!

The men of Alt would always bring a food offering for the whale that would come as if a man were to hitch a ride and offer no payment it is said that the whale would swallow him whole as a "fruit of the land". Due to this the men of Alt had a special relationship with the whales, one that they defended dearly. This fact was put to the test when a man of Tolk named Kemirner hunted one such whale for food. Outraged at the death of their water kindred the men of Alt led a raid against Tolk. A hundred whales each with a hundred men in their mouths swam towards Tolk and when they reached the shore they put every man and woman there to the sword and for a time being they took residence in the homes of the slain.

Perhaps it is wrong to say that Tolk wasn't completely wiped out as its original inhabitants had been killed all apart from the King named Seminus who had gone into hiding. One day Seminus was found relaxing in a public bath house, in plain sight and appeared to have no worry of being caught. On the bath house was a large circle pattern with concentric circles linked with alternating triangles which entranced the king as he gazed deeper and deeper into it. Several guards entered the bath house and approached King Seminus telling him that he was being captured. Seminus ignored them and thrashed around in the pool laughing before a great pit opened below the pool and a great arm made of water grabbed Seminus’s leg and pulled him deep below Tolk and into to the ocean below. When he reached the middle of the ocean there was a great spirit made of Yrotli’s tear. Seminus didn't fear it for he was that very spirit for long ago it had cast its consciousness in a human body with the purpose of reigning over the human nation of Tolk where he was revered. The human body which they called Seminus dissolved and he was once again whole with a body not of flesh but water. His liquid being then surged up back into the pool where he shaped himself into a whirlpool tower which threw itself over the pool and onto the side where he retook a human shape. The men that had approached Seminus before were terrified and called in guards armed with crossbows which gave them little assurance for the arrows flew through the king’s body without scathing him. Seminus threw himself back into the pool and with the extra water he increased his mass and took the form of a giant sand coloured wolf with long legs and a slender snout. Seminus the wolf burst through the roof of the bath house and ran around the street scaring the invaders of his city. Seminus ran towards a fountain where he retook his human shape and he gazed upon a statue which depicted a human figure surrounded by snakes with wolf heads from which the water flowed. Seminus bit the head of one of the stone wolf snakes and blood spewed forth from its snout in place of water. He stepped back and took another glance at the statue. Seminus knelt before the statue and became water once again. The king evaporated and rose into the clouds as vapour only to fall again as a drop of rain. He evaporated again and returned to the clouds with a sense of purpose to travel to another world where he could rebuild his city.

While he was vapour in the clouds he pleaded to Bidăre for aid. The whole time Bidăre had been watching the events unfold below him and he judged that the invasion of Tolk was a huge overreaction for the death of one whale. So Bidăre instructed his son Türte, the god of lightning and transport, to take Seminus to a place where he could rebuild. Türte wove the vapour that was Seminus into bolt of lightning and with a great and epic boom Türte shot the bolt with such power that it travelled though the four realms of Ewaan, through Tivertemaban and into Emnswa where the bolt struck Maku in a speeding strike and struck the ground creating a large crack. From the crack Seminus regained a human form dressed in a pale loose robe with delicate brown designs and walked forth. He was alone in this world so he struck the fresh snow with lightning that flowed from his hand. The bolt and snow mixed to form a woman named Orasiapalibin “she who was woven by lightning” and together Seminus and Orasiapalibin made more people from snow to form the Lylwenė (“water people”) race of people, the first to inhabit Maku.

In this new land Seminus settled in the great forest stretching from west to east and named it The Kingdom of Tylkjămmau over which he reigned as the high king. With Orasiapalibin he had four sons that migrated outwards and founded their own kingdoms but each pledged loyalty to their father. The eldest son Esian travelled to the far north and named his kingdom Baldunamau (“place under frost”). The second son Merigon travelled to the west coast and named his kingdom Ñukeranmau (“place beside the forest”). The third son Skylte travelled to the east coast and named his kingdom Keñasi (“bare, uncovered”). The youngest son Lȯwart travelled west and north into the Piorrjo Mountains and named his kingdom Ime (“greatest centre”).

In Maku they lived in peace for a thousand years. This fact was made untrue when Esian's son Laldañür fell in love with Asilñe the sun goddess. Asilñe loved Laldañür in return with a great passion such that during their time together the sun always shone with a comforting warmth. Laldañür was as foolish as he was handsome for he spurned his solar love for a woman named Restar. Restar had golden hair and eyes that shone with a bright aura around her. In her jealousy and heartbreak Asilñe killed Laldañür. Upon hearing of his grandson's death Seminus declared war on the sun. First he sent his own soldiers from Tylkjămmau to fight but he made the mistake of gathering them at noon when Asilñe was at her strongest. When she saw the soldiers gathering she sent down a great flame and burned them to a crisp.

With no soldiers left King Seminus commanded King Lȯwart to fight Asilñe. Lȯwart was a brute of a man and insisted on charging directly at the sun in a furious charge. Asilñe heard of this plan so she shone so bright that she blinded the sight of every man that day in order to delay King Lȯwart's forces. As the day continued she dimmed with every hour and got a little lower in the sky. Now that Lȯwart and his men were no longer blinded he chased the sun until it lay on the horizon. When it was finally low enough the King of Ime ordered his men to charge and they did so with gusto...over a cliff. The whole time Asilñe had led them on a chase to get them right where she wanted them. She led them to a cliffs edge but when she rested on the horizon it looked as if she lay on the edge of the cliff making it appear like a horizon itself when in fact she was no where near the cliff. This illusion caused the soldiers of Ime to run over the cliffs and to their death below.

With no soldiers left King Seminus commanded King Skylte to fight Asilñe. Skylte was shrewd and calculating. He knew that Asilñe was at her strongest at midday so he amassed his forces during the night and planned to attack the sun as she rose at dawn. However the moon spirit Pėjürotñuir saw the soldiers gather as he wandered across the sky and he alerted Asilñe of the danger. In response to the news Asilñe refused to rise at dawn until King Skylte had disbanded his soldiers. Skylte refused and scoffed at first but the sun's refusal to rise brought on a long and cold night. After a week the plants began to wilt without the sunlight, After two weeks the water froze without the sun's warmth, after three weeks the men were delirious and driven insane by thirst and the never shifting night sky, after four weeks King Skylte had been worn down and finally surrendered to Asilñe and agreed to disband his army. King Seminus was furious at the news of his son's surrendering and he took away Skylte's crown. The loyal men of Keñasic sided with Skylte and declared war on Tylkjămmau. As Seminus had no soldiers he commanded his eldest son Esian to fight Skylte. A quick but bloody war followed which saw both armies wipe each other out.

With no soldiers left King Seminus commanded King Merigon to fight Asilñe. King Merigon was a pensive and cautious man. He saw how easily his brothers fell in battle against Asilñe and how his was the only army left standing. Not wishing to be wiped out like the kings before him King Merigon went against his father's wishes and refused to fight Asilñe. King Seminus was enraged but since all other soldiers, including his own, were dead he was powerless against the forces of King Merigon. Merigon approached the sun at dawn and apologized for the actions of his nephew and brothers and made it clear that he wanted peace with her. Asilñe shone warmly upon Merigon and accepted his peace offer.

Seminus and the kingdom of Tylkjămmau still cursed the sun and gazed up at her with hatred so she sought to rid these spiteful people for good. Asilñe turned every man of the Lylwenė race into a stream and every woman into a shoal of salmon and exiled them into the sea. All except for those who dwelt in Ñuceranmau under King Merigon's reign, for them she offered them refuge in the Kwonarun realm that lies above Maku itself. Before he departed King Merigon pleaded to Asilñe that she give his cursed kindred a chance to redeem themselves. The sun was touched by Merigon's grief and her own guilt for killing his family so she agreed that if each shoal of salmon that was previously a woman can swim upstream and find the stream that was previously her husband then she will revert both into their previous human forms on the condition that each shoal return whole. Before departing Merigon cut off a lock of his brown hair and gifted it to Asilñe in a show of gratitude. When King Merigon had migrated Asilñe felt enraged that she could be moved by a human to lessen her will and she became hysterical. She could not undo her promise to Merigon as the will of spirits is absolute and while they can perform great feats they cannot undo them. So to prevent the salmon shoals returning whole while still maintaining her promise she took the lock of Merigon's brown hair and impregnated herself with it. She then gave birth to the first bears. She placed her bear children by the streams and gave them hunger for fish. So that when the salmon attempted to return to their streams the bears would eat parts of the shoals, rendering them unwhole and unable to turn back into their human forms. It is because that they are children of Asilñe that bears hibernate during winter when their creator holds no power.

During the first salmon run from the ocean to the rivers, many fell prey to the bears. All of the previous kings and their children were plucked from the waters and feasted upon by the brown beasts as well as many of their previous countrymen. When the bears had finished their meal, they tossed the bear skeletons of the salmon aside. For a while the remains sat in a midden until a giant named Sgrümtyr happened upon the mess. He looked at the bare bones with pity for he had known the humans that they were. Being a giant, his blood was coursing with liquid that spewed life. Sgrümtyr took his blade and made a cut on his calf. His blood poured from his leg and dripped onto the salmon skeletons below. The blood restored the skeletons to fishy, fleshy bodies. While the bodies of the salmon had been restored, the minds were absent still. Sgrümtyr wasn't as powerful as his ancient ancestors whose blood could not only restore life but create it, the best that he could do was restore the bodies. However he was fearful that they would be preyed upon by bears again. To protect the bodies he took great mounds of earth and entombed each salmon in soil. First Sgrümtyr entombed the kings. He held up King Lȯwart and covered him in a ball of earth so large that it rivalled the moon and more. Next he took Esian and wrapped him in a large ball of earth that was smaller than Lȯwart's. Sgrümtyr then took Skylte and wrapped him in a smaller ball of earth yet. Sgrümtyr then lifted the great balls of earth and threw them high into the sky. So high that they never fell back down, rather they stayed floating, becoming like the moon which circles around the world. In doing so the giant created the planets. Next Sgrümtyr took Disgarmi and Sonnayrta, children of Lȯwart and wrapped them in smaller balls of earth. Then he took Ăkwemi and Laldañür, children of Esian and wrapped them in balls of earth also. Then he took Vyrrtolk, son of Skylte and wrapped him in an even smaller ball of earth. Sgrümtyr then threw the children of kings high in the sky where each child began to circle their parent. In doing so the giant created the moons of the planets. Then Sgrümtyr took the rest of the salmon remains, the lowly, non-royal humans, and wrapped them in even smaller balls of earth. He them also into the sky but rather than circle the world or the other planets, instead they darted and roamed in a scattered fashion. In doing so the giant created the meteors. The meteors where not thrown as high as the others and as a result sometimes they fall back to earth, reminiscent of how a salmon return to stream of their birth, this has earned meteors their poetic name Klakarpat (“those who return”) which may also refer to salmon in general. When all of the dead salmon from the first salmon run had been thrusted into the sky, a huge hole was left in the ground where Sgrümtyr has scooped the earth which he used to wrap the fish in. The giant sat by the great pit and began to cry for he was saddened by the death of the humans that he had known so well. He cried so much that his tears filled the hole with salty water and formed the Lélwencim Sea. While the giant was smart to do such a feat to preserve the remains of the salmon, he was not wise. This was an issue for when the spirit of the deceased moves on to another realm its old body must be destroyed. Usually this is done naturally through decay or by being scavenged on by animals, but the bodies of the salmon lay at the centre of planets, moons or meteors where no decay or scavenger could reach them. Thanks to this the souls of the kings, princes and the rest were entwined with their dead salmon corpses. This causes their souls to become Olistanonika. While bound in spirit to their preserved corpses, the Olistanonika's can move and roam to cause terror in many places. Unwittingly the giant had unleashed a great wave of evil spirits.

=Second wave: The Kwaginė=

The Kwaginė were the second race to inhabit Malomanan. Their origin lies in Pėjylvar with the weirdling Asdros. Although their ultimate origin goes back to Dwisgavar much like the Lylwenė where they lived on Dülder. Dülder was a place covered in forest and woodland. The trees bore an incredibly addictive sap that was also very healthy, in fact the people of Dülder fed on the sap alone without food or water. They lived off the sap for a long time until their island, having no base which connects to the ocean floor for there is no ocean floor in Dwisgavar, drifted upon the surface and by misfortune it drifted to the far south where the frigid water, cold winds and dark skies caused the forests to wilt and die leaving the people without a source of food. A great famine followed which killed off much of the people of Dülder. However not all hope was lost. It was predicated that Dülder would continue to drift and eventually it would end up in a place where the climate would support the forests again. There was still a few remaining trees whose withered husks still held some sap but they couldn't feed the remaining population for the time needed for the island to drift. If everyone continued to feed on the sap they would run out quickly and starve before the island drifted to a better place. So in answer a number of men and women sacrificed themselves so that the survivors could make the sap supply last longer. The self sacrifices stood on the shores of Dülder as the survivors sang a song of thankfulness and sorrow.

Farewell our heroes, you the destined to die,

When the waves and tide rush to greet you,

Do not ignore their call,

Have no fear, you the forever loved,

When the whip of hunger strikes you,

Drink the foam of the blue sea,

Have no sorrow, you the sacrificed,

When you walk down the blue staircase,

Leading your bodies unendingly to the bottomless depths,

Leading your spirits unendingly to our children's stories,

With your holy deaths, life abounds,

And your names will forever be rejoiced.

Once the last wail of song had echoed into the open sky the selfless souls dove into the bottomless sea and sank deep into the blue. With their deaths the remaining people survived long enough for the island to drift into a forgiving climate and once again the trees flourished and supported life. Those who gave their lives in the ocean were forever known to the survivors as Garė Dülderjăm (“the sorrows of Dülder”). However this sacrifice didn't go unnoticed. The Fate of judgement Dalartolk saw this selfless action and deemed it heroic. Such so that when they died he transported their souls to Pėjylvar, the hero realm. Since their corpses in Dwisgávar were preserved by the freezing water the connection between the body and soul remained intact even after death. This was an issue for when the spirit of the deceased moves on to another realm its old body must be destroyed. Usually this is done naturally through decay or by being scavenged on by animals but the bodies of the sacrificed continued to sink in the bottomless ocean where no decay or scavenger could reach them. So when their souls arrived in Pėjylvar they couldn't settle fully, sometimes they would feel as if they were back in their cold lifeless corpses surrounded in pitch black water, the sheer feeling of being under thousands of miles of water put a fear so great in the sacrificed that even when they snapped out of it and woke in Pėjylvar they couldn't shrug the feeling off and quite quickly they started to become insane. This insanity warped their minds and turned them into horrific ghouls, they became Olistanonika. Their flesh became saturated with water, the air around them was like a putrid winter wind. The Fate of Pėjylvar, Asdros, sought to put an end to the terror that the Olistanonikas were causing. Now Asdros is a Fate, he is incredibly powerful such that he could swipe his sabre paw and extinguish the very existence of these ghouls. Rather, he looked on them with pity, after all they had sacrificed themselves so selflessly just to end up suffering torment even after death. To relieve them of their suffering Asdros collected the ghouls and let out an epic roar that tore the sick flesh from their bones and vaporised their bones into dust leaving them as bare bodiless souls. Having completely stripped the ghouls of all physical being Asdros managed to break their connection with their old corpses and he freed them. Their souls calmed away from their ghoulish nature and reverted to their humane form. However they still needed bodies in which to live as they were merely human souls and they were no where near strong enough to survive without a body. So Asdros swallowed the bodiless souls and absorbed them into his own self.

Now Asdros could not create new bodies for them as he didn't have the power of creation so he found a female sabre tooth tiger and impregnated her with the souls of the sacrificed. The female sabre afterwards gave birth to a litter of cubs, each of which had the soul of the sacrificed. These cubs were not totally in the form of sabre tooth tigers however. They had the shape of a human with bipedal legs and hands at the end of their arms where paws should be. A light brown coat of fur covered their bodies and instead of human faces they had the face of a sabre tooth and great fangs to match. These new humans were the first of the Kwaginė race, whose name means “sabre tooth tiger people”. These half-humans-half-sabres grew to maturity in Pėjylvar and they had want for nothing...at least that was true until an old craving from an old life returned. The craving for sap grew intense in the Kwagínė but much to their disdain this hunger could not be sated in Pėjylvar for the trees there had no need for sap as Pėjylvar is an afterlife, there nothing ages and nothing has to feed. Despite this the hunger grew in the Kwaginė and their desire to taste sap once again was overpowering. They begged Asdros for help. Asdros's answer was to escort them out of Pėjylvar and into Maku where sap grew in abundance. The Fate warned the Kwaginė that if they left Pėjylvar then he could no longer protect them and that in a mortal realm they will feel the years of aging and that once again they will become mortal. Despite these warnings the Kwaginė begged to be taken to Maku in order to quench their sappy thirst. They pleaded with such heart that Asdros agreed to their pleas and he transported them to Maku. The feat of purposefully moving between realms is one that can only be done by the Fates or by the sky spirits such as the lightning spirit Türte. Other beings can travel between realms but only by physically travelling to where the realms meet, the difficulty varies on the nature of these borders (Maku to Kwonarun is much easier than Jamavar to Dwisgavar) and even then it is a herculean feat to undertake. Once in Maku the Kwaginė sought out trees and right away they fed on the sap. They ate so much sap that they bled whole forests dry and left behind them a wake of destruction. This did not go unnoticed.

This needless destruction of forest brought great anger upon Tanspür, the god of fertility, blossoming and well being of forests. Tanspür saw these odd race of Sabre-humans as a plague upon his beautiful forests. To prevent the destruction and extinction of the life bearing forests he summoned the birds and beasts of the trees to swarm around the Kwaginė and kill them. Many of the Kwaginė fought back and while their claws and fangs were strong they were not enough to stop a whole horde. Those that didn't surrender were torn apart by beaks, claws, talons and once again they experienced death but this time they had the luck to have their bodies destroyed. Where their souls went afterwards is unknown. Some think they ended up in Jamavar, while others think that they re-awoke in their old frozen corpses below the ocean, doomed to experience the cold watery darkness until the end of time. But the four Kwaginė that did surrender were shown mercy by Tanspür. Instead of killing them he gave them another punishment. Tanspür turned the last four Kwaginė into trees themselves. When their flesh turned to wood and their blood turned to sap any trace of them being human had gone and with it the last of the second settlement. The settlement of the Kwaginė was incredibly short but to this day those four trees still stand as ancient and towering pillars of wood.

=Third wave: The Spupmi=

In the absence of humans after the first and second waves, Maku had become populated with the Spupmi, a race of avian-like spirits that dwell in the sky. They are often formless but for short periods of time they can manifest in a wispy and cloudy body with no solid core. The surface of the body looks like a giant finch with the length of a man. A bright light seems to emit from the centre of the spirit, the colour of which varies with the individual.

They were created by the avian weirdling Anepi, who drank sunlight and afterwards laid a large egg called Spupmipė and gifted it to the fate spirit Erotru, who reigned over Maku, as a gift. When Erotru received Spupmipė it hatched and from the egg a thousand winged spirits of light spewed out and took to the sky. For a time they flew and wandered around aimlessly and without direction. As a result they shone brightly everywhere, day and night. Such so that the animals in the land struggled to sleep with the constant bright light, causing many to go mad or fall ill. This compelled the animals to wage a war against the Spupmi, the eagles and birds terrorized the spirits as they flew in the sky, the mammoths threw great boulders and logs into the sky aiming for the bright wispy clouds and the cave lions would leap into the air with claws bared. With such a large and aggressive effort against the disparate spirits, one of them had an idea to unite them into one force. The spirit was named Spupmi, he who gave the avian spirits their name, whose colour shone a dark and deep black.

=Fourth wave: The Sumnė=

After King Merigon and his people had fled to Kwonarun, the humans grew so sorrowful in their new home that they started to die out. To prevent humans from becoming extinct King Merigon and the remaining humans built people from earth and rock to boost their numbers. When Merigon died of old age, the gods saw fit to form Merigon's body into a planet so that his remains would rest by his brothers. When his own children Wodaar and Hanir died of old age, the gods saw fit to form their bodies into moons around Merigon's planet so that they could rest with their father.

Over the following millenia, the new humans spread across Kwonarun and made many settlements in the rocky world. One such settlement was a large city named Gilgav. The city stood in a giant hollow in which there was green rolling hills for miles around and everything was bright and lit despite it being underground with no source of light, and a great cavernous roof in place of a sky. Here people lived a balanced life without an ill word said. That was until the creature Bugal burrowed through the walls of the hollow and wreaked havoc. Bugal was so massive that it could sit upon a mountain as if it was a chair, so giant that it drink a river dry with a single lap of its tongue. Bugal was like a terror hound with its black slender body, four legs, its long fleshy antennas which it whipped around erratically and its hard sharp beak. Bugal ran into the town and started to crush the buildings and flatten the fleeing people with its giant claws. The people were helpless until a great ice spirit came down from Heksamau to fight Bugal. The spirit was named Ȯdab and was even bigger than Bugal. Ȯdab made an awesome sight with its long grey-silver scaled body, wings in place of forearms and ability to spew blizzards from it's mouth. Ȯdab smashed through the floors of Heksamau and entered Kwonarun and descended upon the town. From the air he attacked Bugal and harried him from the town. As Ȯdab flew higher to descend once more upon the burrowing monster, Bugal climbed with great speed up the walls of the hollow and leapt onto Ȯdab. There in flight above the town the two creatures slashed, scratched, hacked and clawed each other until Ȯdab took a tight grasp of Bugal and flew higher and higher where he flew into Heksamau and sealed the hole be made between the worlds with a sheet of ice. The people of the hollow were now safe but in the world above the battle between the two creatures raged on brutally. Bugal was smaller and attempted to hide among the giant ice stalactites and pounced upon Ȯdab whenever he had the opportunity, Ȯdab being greater in size roared ferociously and pounded and smashed the ice to find Bugal. All of this smashing caused a crack to form between the floor of Heksamau and the roof of Kwonarun. Ȯdab only just seen through the corner of his eye Bugal scurrying through the crack and back into the hollow. So once again the ice spirit descended by wing into the rocky world, except when he landed something terrifying met him. He gazed his yellow eyes upwards and saw three inconceivably giant creatures that had burrowed through the sides of the hollow to join Bugal in his destruction. These three creatures each had black fur, long slender necks, stubby legs and watchful eyes. They were so incredibly massive that even Ȯdab looked puny next to them, their necks reached so high that if they were to stand in the human world their heads would collide with the moon. Their names were Estal, Harau and Tarylė. They started to pluck people up from the village in what was a horrific massacre. Ȯdab frantically tried to freeze their feet with painfully cold breaths but they hardly felt anything, all this did was freeze over the green fields of the hollow and cause a giant ice sheet to form on the ground near the town and deadly cold winds to blow in the hollow. With one swipe Hară sent Ȯdab plummeting to the ground onto the ice sheet below. As Ȯdab got back to his feet his he saw a kiaraamamau flee across the ice sheet with Bugal chasing after it. The large size of the ciarâmamau caused the ice sheet to shatter slightly, seeing this Ȯdab called for everyone to run onto the ice sheet and jump. Everyone that was still alive did so and with the great weight of all the people and the large ice spirit the sheet gave way and shattered, all that stood upon it fell into a large opening, then they fell past clouds, through a sky and then landed softly in Maku. In this world the burrowing creatures of Kwonarun could not enter and the people were now safe. Though the cold winds that Ȯdab blew in the battle above blew down into Maku and caused the mountainous land to be covered in snow. Safe in the knowledge that the people were now safe the ice spirit thought to leave, but his journey home meant having to travel through Kwonarun where the epic monsters awaited, so rather he chose to live among the high mountains of this world. The people travelled around the land and saw a great abundance of deer, so much that they named the land Malomanan “the land of deer” which is still the name of the continent today. Every night when Asilñe rests beyond the horizon and when darkness takes the sky, the campfires of human settlements can still be seen glimmering from Kwonarun, twinkling and shifting ever so slightly

When the people arrived to the mountainous land, they found themselves in a war. The war between the Spupmi and animals was still raging. Every night the sky shone so bright that the people couldn't find any sleep. It caused so much bother among them that they decided to join the animals in the war. Since the humans had no claws or great strength, they used their ability to create fire to fight the spirits. It just so happened that the one weakness of the Spupmi spirits is fire, for it causes their wispy body to break apart. The fire was so effective that rather than battle the humans, the Spupmi made a deal with them. The deal was that the Spupmi could dwell only in the higher parts of the sky where they could dance and swirl without bothering the life below. Now with no monsters or spirits to bother them. The people set out to make their life in Maku. The ground was too cold and frozen for them to farm like they used to. Their old lifestyle simply wouldn't work in their new home. The spirit Ȯdab took pity on them and sought to help them. He told them that they had to abandon their old ways and live the lives of nomads. It was then that they became the Sumnė (“travel people”).

=Fifth wave: The Naddarussrriv=