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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 2124595" data-attributes="member: 13966">The Aleasani were much larger when they left the old lands, practically giants to the eyes of the Juni, Shay, Duergar, and Urukh they displaced.  Over time they shrank admidst the mountains of Aleasana, with little food to survive on after they destroyed the old civilizations there.  The final and furthest stretch of the Olden Archipelago, stretching east of Karkora and a bit northward, is the storm-wracked, semi-tropical island chain of Old Asani.  When the Aleasani fled their homeland ages ago, the first land they came upon after their long wandering at sea was the islands they would call Asani, and many Aleasani thought to settle there.But the Asani islands were too few for all the Aleasani to colonize, and some thought they were not yet far enough from their homeland to be safe, so they sailed on and passed amidst the rest of the greater achipelago.  Many more were driven to flee westward when the Curse of the Asani fell upon the colonists of the easternmost islands, and the volcanos awoke to ravage the people in their anger, destroying much of the colonies.  Those who did not flee simply did not have any ships left intact, and weathered the Curse, until the Asani islands calmed.These survivors managed to eke out a decent but unpredictable living on the Asani islands, and they became known themselves as Asani.  The Asani changed over the years as the aftermath of the Curse took its toll, and now they are a stranger folk than their western cousins.  The Asani's leaders are the Asani-Morok, called ogre magi by the people of Maralan, who lead other Asani in pirating and shore-raiding.  The common land-based Asani are called Asani-Gorn, ogres to the folk of Maralan, and their more common brethren are the aquatic Asani-Toron called merrow by Maralan folk.  The people of the Asani islands in the Olden Archipelago still consider themselves to be true Aleasani, despite their descent into more crude and simplistic lifestyle, and regardless of their physical disfigurement.  Asani live primarily in caves on the islands, and the numerous Asani-Toron live throughout the underwater warrens of Asani.</blockquote>

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