The continuing history of A'h'gleethe'

FIRST AGE

The Great Journey

    The Courgleet people grew into a strong oceanside city state in their native land through the development of agriculture, a basic writing system and stable leadership. Isolating itself from other early peoples, the city had three main Guilds of power controlling different influential groups. Politics was the governing body that oversaw day to day interactions, laws and infrastructure development. The city Guard policed the city, provided a defensive army when necessary and hunters. Lore was the central religious institution responsible for early writing, math and education.

    Scholars disagree on many of the details leading to the Courgleet people leaving their homeland. It is believed that early Lore of the seafaring Courgleet people created the prophesy of the Great Journey: a voyage leading to an untouched land with no other people waiting for the worthy to find its shores and build a heaven on earth. An alternate genesis of the Great Journey has military motivations (The Others population growing faster than the cities and encroaching on their land) being the key factor in the building of the fleet of boats that would carry the Courgleet across the oceans for over three years before they settled on the A’h’gleethean island. What is know is that the three guilds did agreed on the exodus that ended all connection to the old world. There is no mentions in the Others history about the Courgleet people suggesting that when they did leave their native land they razed their city completely as well as the surrounding area erasing as much physical evidence of their existence as possible. 

    The massive fleet of ships left with the entire people and travelled across the ocean to another continent. The Courgleet found people living in this new land and continued to move down the coast looking for the promised unpopulated place. The interactions with the indigenous groups reinforced the Courgleet belief that a land without people was needed for them to thrive. For two years the fleet moved on losing some of it’s ships and crews along the way to disaster and attrition. When they reached what they believed to be the end of the world and started moving up the other side of the continent. As they fleet moved along the coast they decided to make a great leap of faith and again sailed into the vast ocean. Deep in the rough ocean the Courgleet found an island shrouded in cool mist with no people just as they had been promised. They had found A’h’gleethe’.