The island of Brythan was a part of the continental mass (now known as Europa) but when the ice age covered it in glaciers they gouged out huge channels in the sandy soils over which they lay.
Those same glaciers ruthlessly thrust aside any and all rocky outcrops that lay in their path, often transporting the most obdurate within the ice only to deposit them far from their place of origin when the ice age ended and the glaciers melted.
Thus Brythans corrugated landscape was the end result and one of the largest rocky orphans deposited far from its point of origin, now dominated the central plains of Brythan and in time would become the fortress capital city known as The Citadel.
Ironically the preceding geological activity that had created Brythans benign contours had also severed its connection to the continental mass from which it was now separated by a tapering channel running from the North at its widest to the South at its narrowest, thus creating a turbulent seaway that also channeled the warm ocean current flowing from the tropics to the polar region.
Thus this happy accident of various geological and climatic occurrences gave rise to the birth of a nation blessed with a benevolent topography and temperate climate kept aloof from exploration or invasion by the various belligerent continental tribes who had driven the fey folk almost to extinction. They had narrowly escaped the fate of their forebears by escaping to the North of Brythan where they established the Barrier which kept them safely shielded from any further assaults by the world of men.
FROM WHENCE CAME THE FEY?
A matter of constant debate amongst the Council of the Wise, it is generally if reluctantly admitted that our origins are lost in the mists of time. This unsatisfactory conclusion is the best solution we have found to avoid tempestuous argument of how the fey originated.
Nevertheless there are sufficient enigmatic scraps of evidence to suggest that we were once the dominant life form that became gradually separated by time and distance enough to cause the separate races of Elves, Dwarfs and Brownies to evolve of their own accord yet without conflict as if in recognition of their common ancestry.
When the earliest forms of mankind began to appear they were aggressive brutish predators that slew all other creatures they regarded as either a threat or a food resource. Thus the Elves took refuge in the depths of the vast forests and became a sylvan folk that made their homes amidst the tree tops.
Whereas the Dwarves upon encountering the same fierce prejudice, took shelter in the mountains and adapted to a way of life, mainly mining and metalwork, which encouraged their physical change to heavily muscled people, short in stature.
Alone of all other fey folk the Brownies adapted to a unique co-existence with those few human kind that understood how to be thankful for the Brownies abilities to be helpful around hearth and home of those that understood they were best left alone to their own devices.
The Brownies were not affected by the presence of the Barrier and could freely travel between the two states of time and place that separated Man from Fey and which spatial temporal incline grows steeper over the years so as to eventually become completely impassable to even the most determined investigation by either side, should such an unlikely event ever occur.
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