[And back to The Golden Horn]:

"Though it might seem expected to continue to pursue the more imperialistic Iskandran Narti, let us instead return our gaze to the vast, forested land of Cilan and the people who claimed its marches.

"The truth is that the misty lands of Cilan are in some ways as mysterious as the far of dominion of Castille. The people there are almost religious isolationists, who seem to hold themselves above those around them. If one is able to read the tomes of history that are now held as scripture from those early days, one learns pieces of that distant puzzle, though admittedly, the histories have been dismantled and spread about and now make little sense without the proper knowledge.

"If their lore is to be believed, Cilan was once an active, thriving colony of whatever far-off kingdom had sent them out. There does seem to be some proof that the immigration into the region came in part because of some war or aggression, but it is clear, at least to the Cilanese, that the first immigrants were sent into Isumbras with the purpose of establishing a foothold on it."

It is odd that such imperialism was capable of the kind of isolationist implosion that seems to have followed. How is that the Iskandran Narti seemed to develop their inherited worldview of growth and the Cilanese Narti turned in on themselves? Likely, there are answers to follow.