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It was 10,000 BC - the end of the great ice and the beginning of the Age of the Sun God. Warmth began to vigorously embrace the earth and its rays continued to defeat the retreating ice. The land was finally freed from its icy prison and the northern clans were able to explore southward. Several clans made it across the Great Inland Sea and discovered that there were even greater lands of plentiful game further south. Thus the elders of clan Úlfhéðnar decided to send their youngest and bravest men and women to venture deep into the the dark jungles of the Hot Land. Soon, the brave explorers