The oral histories of the Tedeshani people speak of an ancient age of wandering, an age before the dawn of agriculture and urbanization. These histories describe the Tedeshan as nomadic hunter-gathering, but ones with a strong tradition of fishing and crude seafaring. A great prophecy, told by Theparmon, lord of the seas, to the bravest and wisest Tedeshan chiefs, spoke of a promised land of eternal prosperity. This land would be nestled between three great watery prongs, and home to cornucopias of reliable and tasty food.

When the Tedeshan migrated into a land between a deep inlet, and two other watery structures of sort (blame the fog-of-war), they knew they had found their prophesized home. From the previous inhabitants of the land they learnt of elementary agriculture, and thus transcended from hunter-gatherer plebs to civilized crop-growers. In addition, the triple-waters provided great bounties of fish, and of other seafood.

As the Tedeshan moved in, the bulk of previous inhabitants themselves migrated southwards, for their gods recognized the Tedeshan's rightful dominion over this land. The few that remained integrated into the Tedeshan themselves, and their gods and stories were merged with those of the Tedeshan.

The Tedeshan then stood alone as the sole inhabitants of their new home, and settled down primarily in small villages on the coastlines and riverbanks, where fishing, farming, hunting, and gathering now work in tandem to nourish them. Lesser numbers settled in the inlands, where the Tedeshan's superb fishing and seafaring skills were of little use, and now live as semi-nomadic hunter-farmers, following good prey and arable cropland across the steppe.