"Only a few remained by the coast where the ships could reach them. These few settled atop the jagged cliffs. The many went with carts drawn by beast and men towards the mountains, towards Alasiyas heart where the gods blow unrelenting winds across the barren earth.

So great was their fear of the seafaring barbarians."

- unknown

After the collapse there was unrest, the people of the aegis were thrown into the fray.

On the south coast of Alasiya there stood Kremnos high upon the steep cliffs a settlement erected around the old watchtower on barren rocks.

Kremnos decaying remnant of the once blooming metropolis Kition, center of copper trade and bronze production, once ruled by the stuart kings of the Hittites now ruled by nothing but fear of the sea.

A sick and frightened people toiling the barren earth.

From the hill tops they could still see what was left of Kition the former bronze trading center of the world.

The only remnant proclaiming its former glory was the moss covered statue of the horned god, the patron of the people of copper. Stripped of his bronzen skin after the siege of Kition, his now deformed armless stone body untended to, for there was no copper mining or bronze forging to pray over and the people again turned towards to the bull or even the snake to speak to their deities.

Seldomly men were still seen coming to the shores of the horned gods island offering sacrifices, according to the fishermen only one stranger still came to render his honors to the horned god.

Rumor had it he came from Larna a small island to the south of Kremnos.

Nothing was there but a small settlement of refuges from the times when Kition was burned to ground.

They settled in the hills of Larna, Naca, "Safety" they called their settlement.

The man who visited the horned god so faithfully lived even further to the south on the lower coast of Larna.

There he lived almost alone with his family, except for an old couple which stubbornly refused to live anywhere else, even through the tribulation of these dangerous times.

The two small farms and the inhospitable coast proved to be an unappealing target for roaming bands of pirates and so he raised together with his wife a son, twelve years of age and a daughter only two years old.