People of the Ten Thousand Ships

The People of the Ten Thousand Ships, or simply the People of the Ships, were the huge group of Rhantashani refugees that fled Orithea by sea at the end of the disastrous Wars of Schism and followed their prophet-patriarch Tarquenus into exile in Achuirea. They are also sometimes called the Rhantashani Exiles, the Tarquenites, or the Tarquenian Exiles. However, these terms can be ambiguous: They may also be used for later generations descended from the original refugees, sometimes even down to the present-day Achuireans. ‘Tarquenites’ may also be used to refer to the followers of Tarquenus and converts to Rhantashannu prior to their exile, for instance, before and during the Wars of Schism. Worshippers of the Thaedonu-Vaati may also use ‘Tarquenite’ to derisively describe a present-day devotee of the Rhantaseppa, most of whom are obviously Achuirean, but not all.  
At the command of Tarquenus, the exiles-to-be constructed an enormous fleet (unsurprisingly, said to consist of ten thousand vessels) and set off from the shores of the Sarpic Seas to flee annihilation at the hands of the Vanir-Vaati. Their route supposedly passed through the Dragon’s Jaw (where many were lost) and the Shreenwater, then southeast to skirt the tip of Lesharea and cross the open Emerald Ocean to the Achuirean coast where (legend tells) they made landfall at Tel Kiren in present-day XXXXXXX.
Over the following millennia, the descendents of the Tarquenian exiles spread and multiplied, colonizing the whole of Belekesh and pressing onwards into other parts of Achuirea as well: North across the high plateaus into XXXXX [northwestern peninsula], east into the rift valleys of XXXXXX, south into the equatorial jungles and beyond them into [Achuirea’s southwestern landmass], and further still across the [channel] to orc-infested Vhaluzia where they fought long and brutal wars to carve out what are now the human kingdoms there.