Migration

Life, Relocation

Cormac leaves Calrune, beginning a journey west.

In 2739, Due to the actions of parties undisclosed, the government of Highwind reconciles with the Fae’roh Stormbreak and re-enters into trade with the continent. At the time, Cormac is working maintenance at one of the bath houses in Robathin, a job which involves the regular flushing of sulfurous build-up in the aging pipe systems. It is merely the latest in a long string of dirty, dead-end jobs that Cormac had drifted between in his seemingly aimless quest east. The Vikarahn government’s re-entry to Almahnan society conversely inspires Cormac to do just the opposite and soon he crosses the Nile, headed into the true desolation that is north-eastern Almahna.   In 2741, Cormac spends two years alternately on his own and taking temporary positions in the scarce pockets of civilization he finds, sometimes working as a ranch hand in the lowlands or working with stone in the mountains. Yet even in the remote quarry that Cormac finds himself in, news of the completion of the Precipice District and the glorious Worlds Fair still makes its way to his ears. Cormac leaves the site in the middle of the next night. He spends the next several months alone.   Finally in 2742, In the early days of 2742, after four years of steady progress west, Cormac has finally reached the coast, finding himself in the insular hamlet of Agroba. At first, Cormac’s plan is to find work on a fishing boat and perhaps find passage back to Highwind. After a few days of stonewalling and hostility from the locals, Cormac realizes this isn’t going to happen. A year ago, he might have had simply moved on, following the coast north to somewhere more friendly but the fugue is beginning to lift from Cormac’s eyes. Something about the locals reminds him of terrorists he’d seen hiding in crowds in Calrune during the civil war. He feels certain that they are hiding something deadly to everyone around them. After years of dormancy, the instinct to make the world a better place than he found it reawakens in Cormac. It is the same instinct that drove him to imagine beautiful buildings and decrepit ruins restored. With the desperation of a man who feels he is on the edge of losing the best part of himself, Cormac begins to investigate.