With their enemies defeated the humans began founding settlements. The greatest of these was Midgard, which had a good source of water, built the first human temple and a set of protective walls to guard against marauding monster races and invading armies. These conditions made it favorable for trading and soon Midgard was a center for many important guilds. The next great accomplishments of the humans came from a small fishing village called Freeport. At this time fishermen caught fish using nets off the rocks, and Freeport has great reefs for fishing, so when the founder of the Freeport merchant guild set out on a rickety raft he was the butt of jokes from his peers, but when he brought in the biggest catch that day it was his turn to laugh. The use of water craft spread along the coasts and rivers of Vetrandus and soon Freeport also became a major center of trade. This was a very prosperous time for the humans and cities like Antharia, situated on a peninsula-island between Midgard and Freeport, would fund exploration fleets to distant lands looking to establish settlements which bring in wealth to their funding cities. Farthest north along a chain of islands starting from Freeport was the profiteering Savonville.

The Altyrans thought this must surely have been the destruction the hobbits had warned of but were quickly informed by the hobbits that this was not the case and that the giants themselves had merely been fleeing from the true destruction which grew ever closer in the form of the rampaging human forces of the now fallen Empire. It was immediatly commanded that all the greatest sages and mages come together in an attempt to find a way to stop the raging human hordes before they could reach the Altyran lands and ravage and destroy those lands as they had many of the others across the continent. In this the humans and elves agreed and worked in close quarters as the greatest minds of both races came together to find a solution while the human armies engaged in training elven volunteers to stand against the ever encroaching threat as the humans on the shores of Vetrandus prepared to cross the narrow waters and assault Altyra. Then it was found... a way to forever end the threat of foreign assault upon the Altyran lands, they would levitate the entire island itself into the skies. To do this would take time, time that was very short and would have to be bought by the Altyran military on the field of battle. So it was that the greatest mages gathered their energies to create focal points of planar energy in massive Spires made of the very fabric of the planes themselves. Five such Spires were created as the forces of Altyra left and fought the human armies on the high seas... and were pushed back to the shores of Altyra.

And as the armies drew closer and the fighting ever more intense the final knell of doom seemed to sound for the Altyran people as the five Spires were not powerful enough to raise the emense mass of the Island. A single focal point was needed to amass and direct the energies of the other five Spires, but the wielders of magic were exhausted and could do no more than had already been done, it was not enough. The many people of Altyra knew their end was soon to come and so raised up in prayer to the Gods asking for divine interference. One God of little true power and few followers heard their plea and used what energy he did have to create the sixth and final Spire, but even this Gods energy was not enough to meld the five existing Spires with the foreign divine energy flowing through the sixth Spire. A guide was needed, a link between the divine and the mortal, a conduit through which the powers might flow and be directed to the proper places. Thus it was that Dalivon the great Druid and leader of the Altyran peoples came forward and bonded himself to the final Spire so that his thoughts might guide and direct the energies of the Spires to the proper places, through this bonding he gained life eternal but in exchange he would never again be able to move very from the location of the Spire. As the island rose into the skies itself the battle between the Altyrans and the invading human hordes was ended even as the first human forces landed on the shores. With the island levitated above and isolated from the rest of the world the few human forces that had landed quickly surrendered and joined with the Altyrans.

Today ALtyra is a mixture of several races. The drow live in the eastern wilds of the island, dwarves and giants in the mountains and caves next to that. The elves have isolated themselves mostly to the northern forest regions, as the humans took many political and military controls of the city itself. The hobbits found their future in trading and are mostly merchants of the city.

Her captain was called Dalim, and he explained how three of the original five ships survived the storm to find themselves in a strange sea with a bit of coastline to the north (according to the position of the moon), so they set off north thinking they were south of Vetrandus. One of the three remaining ships sank on an unchartered reef the next day and it was then that the last two ships' captains realized they were no where near the southern shore of Vetrandus. If the storm hadn't blown them south, then where?

Having no idea where to go but realizing their ships were in need of repairs and supplies they continued towards shore. When they reached the shore they spotted a great river ford where the mouths of the two large rivers converged to the west of them which the ships could anchor in for shelter from the sea of "lost wealth" or Baecara, as the men named it. They had almost reached the river ford when the second last ship became stuck in a sand bar close to the headland east of them. It was nearly nightfall so Dalim's ship set out for deeper to wait for morning when they would try to free their fellow ship, but that night Dalim's horrified crew listened to the screams sounding across the water from the beach where the damaged ship was attacked by a band of trolls.

The men of Dalim's ship were so shaken they couldn't bring themselves to search for survivors the next morning but set out for the river ford immediately. Once anchored in the river ford Dalim's men set up a camp on the opposite side of the river from "troll swamp" or Miasma. They lived between the two rivers gathering supplies and repairing their ship for almost a year when a realization dawned on Dalim that if they had sailed north and found no settlements near their position on these rivers that this must be a "new land" or Brimlan. If this was true, then Dalim could sail south and reach a familar landmark near where that fateful storm had first struck. And so it was that Dalim found and sailed into Freeport harbor, and Brimlan became open to human settlement for profit.

Even though the elven people had not forgotten the old war and humans' part in demolishing their Empire, and hence could not trust humans, the two races managed to live in relative peace. As a matter of fact they both benefit from the exchange of habits, science and religion, which came as a side product with trade. This, from its own part speedied the process of cultural separation of the human race. The first settlers in Brimlan adopted much from the elves (and vice-versa) as the their bonds to their old motherland weakened. One day these people were to be known as Gweireans or Gverdonians.