The North Foresters did not know what to make of their new home. They broke up into clans and founded family caves as their dwellings. Resources were scarce in the rocky ground, and competition between clans for power and survival was fierce. The strongest families took residence in the darkest heart of the forest, which they called Trellia. Yet chaos reigned in the woods, they had no leader, and did not feel the poorer for it. The only safe haven was Gayama, the tree of friendship, where clans and individuals could come and affirm their alliances.

As time passed, a clear champion emerged from the masses and his name was Kayintas. He was unmatched in his fighting prowess, and exerted much influence in the North Forest. But he eventually grew tired of indirect rule, and sought to use his great authority to enact sweeping changes in the forest’s political structure. He called together his legions of followers and set up base in an imposing cave in the midst of Trellia. Kayintas crowned himself monarch, and declared that the North Forest was no longer a place of rival factions and tentative alliances, but a unified nation with strict laws as dictated by him.

The sovereign clans did not like this proposal at all, but they were too weak to challenge Kayintas’ vast armies. They came together at Gayama, the tree of friendship, and held council to decide how to handle this situation. After much heated discussion, only one viable option remained. For the first time in North Forest history, all the clans would work together to overthrow a common enemy. Kayintas’ army included people from caves all over the forest. Sister was turned against sister, brother against brother, parent against child. But higher ideals were at stake, and the great alliance of clans were willing to partake in this bloodbath to ensure the survival of their way of life.