Once the southeastern tribes were brought back into the fold, the riders turned northwards, for their northeastern cousins were still in the dark. Uni Migadepi, who was said to be the strongest man of his time, decided to make the northerners swear fealty to him and his riders, and led a series of raids and friendly offers towards those that slept by the great forests.

The northerners were an unruly and fierce people, but they could not compete against the Nadiginite cavalry and numbers. In the end, even the bravest had to listen to reason and chose to keep their heads instead of feeding into the growing number of unmounted.

Still, it took generations before they assimilated completely into the growing Miecan sphere, and many a village was enslaved by the powerful Naputi before they let their hair grow in full.¹

And so, in due time, the songs the people of the northeast sang were in tune to those of their kinsmen from the Nadin basin.

¹ Long hair is a sign of someone's freedom, as male slaves are forced to shave to humiliate them and tell them apart from free men. The Miecans being a strongly patriarcal society, female slaves are exempt of such rules, although they are often forced to become their masters' unwilling concubines.

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