The Wandering

Population Migration / Travel

The period during which the Sandsage Nomads were expelled from their native lands and forced to migrate through unfamiliar territories outside of [Einborg.

The Sandsage Nomads are the indigenous people of central Einborg. When settlers began building in this area, the nomads resisted attempts in their lands but allowed these strangers to settle nearby. Originally, the nomad tribes welcomed their neighbors and assisted them with trade and resources.

In time, the nomads saw that settlers did not know how to balance their needs with the needs of the landscape. As resources were stripped, more and more settlers began to settle in the Sandsage lands with armed resistance to the tribes' attempts to dissuade them. So war began. The nomads fought with ferocity and vigor, and their enemies demonized them to the wider world. Eventually the word "Sandsage" or "Nomad" became synonymous with "savage", "barbarian", and "immoral". The growing settlements in and around the ancestral nomadic lands united into the nation of Einborg and took to full-scale war. They enslaved all the nomads they could take alive and ruthlessly hunted them.

The nomads had little choice but to flee their homeland and take to the wider world. Their innate knowledge of arid ecosystems left them at a loss and they struggled to survive this time spent as outcasts with a reputation of mindless brutality. Many of the intertribal relations deteriorated and virtually all the tribes risked extinction. Many defected from nomadic life and settled in areas far enough from Einborg to escape persecution. This period of flight from Einborg and the subsequent years scraping by in unfamiliar territories is called The Wandering among the tribes. But while they wandered for a millennia, the tribes did not forget the wrongs against them. Each generation bore a burning hatred for Einborg, and the tribes agreed to focus on growing their populations in the hopes of someday consolidating to strike down their oppressors.

The Wandering ended when the tribes were united under an Izen for the first time in nearly 2,000 years. The Izen's call was so strong that many of the settled tribal descendants, whose ancestors had abandoned nomadic ways steadily over generations, took up arms and found their place among the tribes for war. In nomadic history, The Wandering was subsequently followed by a brief period called The Reckoning.