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== Reasons for the migration ==

== Reasons for the migration ==

Reasons for the Dawn are unknown. In addition to that, the development of several original languages, religions and cultures of the migrants provides an anthropological mystery: these cultures ended up having little in common with one another, while the expectation is that migrants from Western Dantria would have a relatively common cultural background. For instance, [[Lolion]], which was the main religion in Dantria, seemed to be virtually unknown to the Dawn settlers. Instead, Lolion was later exported by its monks through [[Gantolia]] almost 10 centuries later.

Exact reasons for the Dawn are unknown and some of its aspects constitute an anthropological mystery.

 

 

In addition to that, the development of several original languages, religions and cultures of the migrants provides an anthropological mystery: these cultures ended up having little in common with one another, while the expectation is that migrants from Western Dantria would have a relatively common cultural background. For instance, [[Lolion]], which was the main religion in Dantria, seemed to be virtually unknown to the Dawn settlers. Instead, Lolion was later exported by its monks through [[Gantolia]] almost 10 centuries later.

This could be explained by the supposed extreme diversity of the population of Dantria, and possibly the coexistence of many languages and religions, although it begs the question of what prompted such different peoples to embark on a dangerous and faraway journey. Hypotheses include famine, war, disease and cultural prosecution, but none of these ideas explain features of the Dawn to full satisfaction. Surviving Dantrian documents, although few, reveal nothing of importance happening at the time of the Dawn. For instance, there is a historic treatise written by an unknown author from [[Walneer]] that dates its account to the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th [[CFR]]. It talks about some of the important events of the previous decades, but none of them feature anything that would prompt a massive migration.

This could be explained by the supposed extreme diversity of the population of Dantria, and possibly the coexistence of many languages and religions, although it begs the question of what prompted such different peoples to embark on a dangerous and faraway journey. Hypotheses include famine, war, disease and cultural prosecution, but none of these ideas explain features of the Dawn to full satisfaction. Surviving Dantrian documents, although few, reveal nothing of importance happening at the time of the Dawn. For instance, there is a historic treatise written by an unknown author from [[Walneer]] that dates its account to the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th [[CFR]]. It talks about some of the important events of the previous decades, but none of them feature anything that would prompt a massive migration.

[[File:Dawn waves.jpg|thumb|450px|The three waves of migration]]

[[File:Dawn waves.jpg|thumb|450px|The three waves of migration]]

Researchers typically differentiate between the three waves of migration. These are not necessarily chronological, but designate the main migration streams that ended up resulting in very different countries, cultures, languages and religions.

Researchers typically differentiate between three waves of migration. Very early on, historians began to refer to these as first, second and third waves, which is misleading as the waves are not meant to be chronological and instead designate the main migration streams that ended up resulting in very different countries, cultures, languages and religions. In modern sources, the waves are referred to as the Gantolian wave, the Loodorian wave and the Asdohn wave. However, numerical monikers still dominate popular references to the Dawn.

The first wave has populated Gantolia and Yammoe. The second wave resulted in Loodori, and later Ybuwyn. The third wave established the [[State of Asdoh]], [[Toor]] and possibly [[Dlos]]. The latter is sometimes considered the fourth wave of Dawn.

The first wave has populated Gantolia and Yammoe. The second wave resulted in Loodori, and later Ybuwyn. The third wave established the [[State of Asdoh]], [[Toor]] and possibly [[Dlos]]. The latter is sometimes considered the fourth wave of Dawn.