Dzewa ta M'alam (People)

The Dzewa ta M'alam, or "Moon People" are a wandering people that have been wandering Jagda in search of a home since they were cast out of their land on the 20th of August.

Chronicles of the Dzewa ta M'alam:

The origin of this people is mysterious. They claim to come from a world where their land was arid and have been separated and spread out in a great event involving the Sun descending on their land and, just as he was about to rain fire and destroy everyone on that world, he took pity upon the people that had worshipped him for so long and saved them.

But this legend is far away and recently they had been living by a river in a world where, when they arrived, they discovered strange natives. They cut down the trees from the forest at the edge of which the native town was place and started building a home for themselves, but soon all the natives were gone. Other, wildly different people were also commonplace in that world, some with powers such they would be considered deities. Portals to other worlds were opened but they could never find their brothers they were separated from. Great works of architecture were started but slowly the world started dying. The other people left, and their homes became ruins. The temples they had built collapsed and as the Dzewa ta M'alam faced more and more devils springing from the ground, they learned to fight. But they forgot their great glass homes and towers of polished stones standing atop snowy peaks in the process.

And so, after numberless years, they watched in tears as no portal they opened could save the world. Some natives were seen, then and again, but they had to accept the hard truth: this world was now deserted and they were the only people inhabiting it. And so it came to pass that this dying world expelled them into the unknown.

For centuries they roamed the lands around the Sea of Leaves, near the great Jimu Udal empire and the nation of Apolo. Wandering merchants, they would harvest the sea-leaves that locals called "kelb" and sold them on the shores. But more demons were present and many of the Dzewa died. So they went in search of a new land, one where they could build a new home like the one they had in their previous world.

So, after almost 300 years (Reckoning of the Cow), they set out to sea, and attempted to reach the promised land that was whispered to lay to the North.

After passing the Bay of Martyrs, they were turned back once again in the Sea of Sorrows, shot down by demons from the deep. They washed up in the Bay of New Beginnings, seeking shelter in the town of Urbatum before they left again, after a long year regaining their strength, under the darkened eye of the Moon Goddess.

After passing the Ruined Kingdom of Agine in 735 (O.C. Reckoning), they rested near the River Deb, and, while considering to continue their search through the Promised Land by crossing the icy forests that lay to the North, the locals warned them about the Sea of Many Teeths that stood in the middle of their paths and they continued following the coast. By 736, they had reached Green Peak and a year later, they discovered the pillaged lands that became known as the Bay of Thieves.

After passing the Towers of Agatraz at the start of the year 737, they landed on Nel Kwen and waited the end of the year there. Their boat having wrecked on the Southwestern Coast of Nel Kwen, most of them (450 of the 500 they started with) crossed over the Channel of Foes by swimming. Finally, legend says, they first laid foot on the Bay of the First Moon on the very first day of the year 738 (Olden Cow Reckoning).

They had been promised peace on this island, but more demons came forth and so they had to burrow under the ground. This dwelling turned into their First Home, now called Tree Home, where the first quarry and mine are found. As of the beginning of the year 835, this is the only one and by far the main quarry. This is where the materials for the Tower of the Moon was extracted. The first records of Tree Home are found in 743, although it is unclear if the Tree of Life was present at that time or if it still remained a simple burrow.

In 817, the Tower of the Moon was completed (the celebration was on the first day of that year) and the last Dzewa left it in 818, marking a change in the civilisation, tired of the demons now also pouring from the sky. This was the First Day of the year 1070 by the Newer Cow Reckoning, which corresponds to the start of the year 2080 by the Reckoning of the Peak.

After 5 months (by Cow reckonings), the Dzewa left the Island of Nacgan Ajan in search of the promised land, on a new boat they had built.

For 40 N.C. years they roamed the Dry Sea, until eventually on the blessed day of the Alignement they arrived in the Promised Land, seeing the magnificent peak they would call home for the next several years. This was the start of the year 858 of the Olden Cow Reckoning, which corresponds by the Newer Cow Reckoning to the year 1110 and to the year 2118 by the Reckoning of the Peak.

In a year they had build a new home there, but at the start of year 1112 N.C. they were attacked by more demons and the ground shook and gave way under their blows.

It was another three years before their fields fructified and they descended to meet the natives that lived in the plains underneath their hill.

And so, with the shared riches of these people and the knowledge of the Dzewa ta M'alam, the town of Kunar Ut was founded in 1118 N.C.

For 94 years they lived together, trying to fight off the demons, farming the land and living off the salmon migrations in the river that runs through the town-village of Kunar Ut. But by the 13th Century N.C., the decision was taken to make the town more secure as attacks became more and more frequent and the natives seemed to fall prey to the Foul-Fleshed. Unfortunately, the works were interrupted at the start of year 1212 and the town has lingered since.