Aleathian Odyssey

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The Aleathian Odyssey is the name of the sea voyages of Aleathian fugitives from the Theocracy of Tekhos, (572-573 TR). A month before the City of Aleath fell to the Tekhosians, four-hundred nobles, priests, soldiers, artisans, merchants and farmers, chosen by lot, and most children under the age of twelve, boarded a motley fleet of some fifty ships and sailed eastward into the Gulf of Ederwyn, with the aim of founding a new Aleath. The expedition was organized over a period of several years by clan Melesen, originally immigrants from Melderyn.

Written accounts of the Odyssey describe horrific weather and fanciful sea monsters. The foul weather of the Gulf broke the fleet into small flotillas; many vessels disappeared without trace. Legends about stray ships, have them founding colonies at various, likely and unlikely, spots. Fully half of those ships who set sail from Aleath were lost. The rest eventually managed to assemble at the island of Keboth where they were succoured by the the Sindarin. There (or possible before, the records are ambiguous) the refugees met with Genin, a mage of Melderyn, and under his guidance, they sailed through the Indatha Straits to found the city of Thay in 573 TR.

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