❦ Por tres siglos, los homins vivieron en territorios mucho más extensos que los actuales. Esas regiones son llamadas las «Tierras Antiguas».
Las Tierras Antiguas son inmensas, mucho mas grandes que las Nuevas Tierras, pero ellas, también incluían zonas principales donde el Desierto, el Bosque, los lagos (el mar) o la selva predominaban. Además, aquellas tenían características que no existen en las Nuevas Tierras, tales como ríos, grandes dunas de aserrín y una montaña que separaba Trykoth de Zoran.

    En 2481, ocurrió el «Gran Enjambre»: kitines en gran número salieron de las profundidades en el territorio de los Fyros, probablemente como resultado de una exploración demasiado avanzada que estos últimos llevaron a cabo. Los Fyros lucharon, pero la oleada de kitines fue inmensa. La oleada se movió al este, invadió el territorio Matis, luego el territorio Tryker, y finalmente el territorio Zoraï. La sorpresa fue total y las civilizaciones de homins fueron arrasadas. Los mismos Karavan entraron en batalla, pero sufrieron significativas pérdidas. Los homins vieron a algunos karavaneers morir en aquella ocasión. Aparentemente, para los homins, los kamis no intervinieron, o lo hicieron muy tarde.

    Elias Tryton, a quien los Karavan consideran un traidor de Jena, habló con algunos homins, incluyendo al Fyros Oflovak Rydon, para informarles de la presencia de Arcoíris.
Aquellos arcoíris llevaron a los homins a un área de las Raíces Primarias que los homins llamaron desde entonces el «Santuario», debido a que los kitines jamás pudieron llegar a el.
Muchos homins permanecen en las Tierras Antiguas, incluyendo aquellos que posteriormente se convirtieron en Marauders.
Los homins encontraron refugio por dos años en el Santuario. Yasson, el rey Matis, uno de los últimos líderes sobrevivientes, regularmente iba a la superficie por un pequeño sendero para comunicarse con los Karavan. Pero, sobre todo, en el Santuario reinó un espíritu de colaboración mutua desconocida hasta entonces en los homins. La obligada estancia condujo a una gran mezcla de culturas, nunca antes vista. El espíritu homin avanzó realmente en ese tiempo.

    Mientras tanto, los Kamis y los Karavan repelieron a los ktins a las profundidades. Y una vez que la superficie quedó limpia, la Karavan dio una señal para salir del Santuario y selló la entrada.
Cuando los homins llegaron a las Nuevas Tierras en 2483, ellos no encontraron kitines.

    Oflovak, consciente que algunos homins no habían sido capaces de alcanzar los arcoíris, decidió regresar a las Tierras Antiguas mientras los pueblos homins trabajaban en reconstruir sus civilizaciones. El viajó unos 2.000 km a vuelo de pájaro, usando las estrellas para encontrar su camino. Le tomó cerca de dos años alcanzar su destino en 2485. El marcó la ruta y los homins quienes no habían sido capaces de tomar ventaja de los arcoíris empezaron a llegar a las Nuevas Tierras en 2487.

    La historia experimentada por los personajes de los jugadores comienza en 2525.

❦ In the game design, the basic idea is that the player characters are refugees from the Old Lands, who come through the Oflovak road.
But by now, many years have passed since the Great Swarming and even the Second one. One might legitimately ask what is still fueling the flow of refugees. One can then propose other explanations for the origins of the player characters.
For example, it is quite credible to say that a character is native of one of the cities of the continent.
The period spent on Silan can then be seen as the time of an apprenticeship rite proposed by the Rangers to young homins. In this rite, one begins as a refugee, in a symbolic way. However, it is not a prerequisite for each homin. And as Chiang should have understood that the kitins have returned to the Jungle, since he has been told about it for a long time, we can think that the imp is pretending.
Claiming to be from a region of the Bark other than the New Lands is still possible, but this should no longer be the norm.
A famous player could say, for example, he is a marauder from the Old Lands, which would explain his advanced characteristics.

    Often, upon returning to the Bark, the homin justifies his absence by a long journey to the Prime Roots or the Old Lands; but in fact, that should be seen more as a dream, as if the homin in question had experienced a "resurrection pause".
    The resurrection pause of a homin would then be equivalent to his being queued up by the Powers. But the homin would not realize it. He would feel like he was traveling.

❦ The Old Lands and the New Lands together represent a very small part of the planet. There must be areas of very different geography. The artistic view of the planet is misleading. The northern areas of the planet, for example, are rather sparsely vegetated, covered with tundra or even swamps. There are also zones in the penumbra, because of the lack of a bright enough star.
 
   The vast brown plains, which can be discerned at the foot of the cliffs bordering certain regions, correspond to a smooth and compact bark. There no plant grows, except for small grasses, mosses and fungi.

    The sky of Atys is, unfortunately, not at all coherent. We can't really be inspired by it.
On the other hand, the pulsating star is coherent. The fact that it is fixed in the sky is not a chance occurrence, nor a mistake. The testimonies coming from the Old Lands say that, there, the pulsating star is at the zenith.

❦ During the Second Swarming, the kitins didn't disappear on their own; getting them off the New Lands involved a long series of events, such as collecting termites to plug up the mounds from which they emerged. But, even if the story doesn't say under what circumstances, the great wave, as for it, did indeed retreat.
It should be noted that it was white kitins from the depths who occupied the land when the Second Swarming occured. It would be interesting to investigate the behavior of these white kitins after the Second Swarming and whether they were aggressive towards other kitins.

    The current invasions seem less important than the previous ones but it is difficult to know if, should homins not react, they will not become more important. Perhaps these limited incursions are only conducted to test the reactions of the homins.

    It is very likely that there are still kitins in the Old Lands, which may be the reason for the Marauders' nomadism. It is difficult to know whether current kitins are white kitins or not. Rumors spread by the Marauders suggest that the kitins of the Old Lands are much larger than those of the New Lands. But that may be just bragging.