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Of Trees, Hills and a People Divided
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Ages have passed since the Great Migration and the birth of the beast-shifters. Altana, Duskstrider, had long since left the forests of Arborea to travel and hunt around the world with the Elder Being. Doing so, she left her people to spread, change and ultimately fracture without her leadership.

From the south, humans began moving along the coast, reaching the other side of the Chain of Matoumeion and settle along the major rivers and the valleys of the land. While remaining a people with a deep and intense connection to the forest and the spirits of nature, the humans of southern Arborea would begin to do away with the nomadic traditions stemming from the time of Altana's Migration. They would instead choose to gather in larger communities, assuming united tribal structures and a sedentary culture. Now unprotected by the Chain and neighbouring the belligerent kentauros and their servile phaunos, this new Golasecca culture would learn to quickly adapt in utilising the defensive terrain of the hills and forests to their fullest for these small villages to limit the damage of centaur raids.

In the meanwhile, the humans to the west of the Chain chose to maintain Altana's teachings, living nomadic lives in the dense forests of Arborea, communing with the tree and river spirits and speaking with the dryads of the Kalliste. While they can be grouped under the catchall 'Artenacian culture', they are far from being homogenous. For instance, those that live in the lands close to the Cladia Vale, home of the beast-shifters, being far more feral and affected by the beastial energies of the World Tree. Regardless, one thing becomes clear for the communities and tribes of the Artenacian culture, it is their proficiency with the bow and their ability to hunt. Thanks to their connection to the dryads, themselves having served at some point as a Hunter of Aeto'le, they are quick to master ranging. Amongst those of the Artenacian culture, no where else would you find a species that is so deadly with a bow, so tenacious in their tracking, and so swift in the wildwoods.

Finally, in the centuries and millennia since Aeto'le first gave life to the trees, bringing forth dryads, and had some of their number become her attendants and hunting partners, the honour now became open to humans of Arborea. With Aeto'le secluding herself evermore since the death of Vicissitude, the privilege would go to the avatar Altana to lead the Hunters of Twilight, an elite ranging order that would stalk the woods and jungles of the world, ensuring natural balance is maintained and the death of abject monstrosities that threaten peaceful societies and civilisation that live in harmony with nature.


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  • Light Red Dots (Spread Humans)
  • Yellow Dots (Create Cities - Golasecca Culture)
  • Brown Jots (Create Civilisation: Golasecca Culture)
  • Green Dashes/Jots (Create Non-City Civilisation: Artenacian Culture)

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  • Command Species (Spread) - 4
  • Command Species (Non-City Civ) - 7
  • Command Species (X3 Cities) - 10
  • Advance Civ (Hunting) - 5
  • Create Order (The Hunters of Twilight) - 6

    Total - 32

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