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Each accompanied by a few of the Brulicruvic as an honour guard, a handful of emissaries are sent down the Choslitol to meet with the Windborn. Their purpose is to learn more about the Shagodalek, from the extent of their territory to how they survived to the deluge to their attitude towards other societies. The leaders of the chiefdom wait with bated breath for the return of these envoys, but months pass without any sign of them.
Half a year goes by and just when the saint and chieftain are on the verge of declaring the Shagodalek to be a potential enemy of the Croglatovic, the emissaries return from the land of the Windborn. They come with a great deal of information about the sons of the western wind, and they are accompanied by delegates who wished to see the reborn chiefdom for themselves.
To begin with the recent history of the Shagodalek, they claim that when the great flood occurred, the bulk of their order was busy waging war against a forest clan, not unlike the Scagravic. These savages were known as the <span class="mu-s">Kroprawek</span>, or <span class="mu-i">cavemen</span>. Any effort to expand further inland was stymied by raids from the cavemen, so the Windborn were sent deep into the wooded hills to deal with them. Though that Kroprawek were successfully subjugated, the Shagodalek returned to the coastline that they called home only to find that the wing-stitching tribe had been swept away.
The Windborn believe that Shagol, the two-headed god of the wicked western wind, was responsible for the great flood and that this deity of destruction must be constantly appeased with ritual sacrifice, in order to prevent another deluge from occurring. But while they were eager to reclaim the land of the wing-stitchers, the Shagodalek were forced to rely on the subjugated Kroprawek for sustenance and support. After all, they were a host of warriors, who knew about little other than violence. So they set about civilising the cavemen and over the years, they even managed to build a bustling settlement in the wooded valley that they called home – Blutuskan.
Over the course of decades, the Shagodalek expanded beyond the hills that they had conquered and returned to the Bladrek coastline. By this point, some survivors had banded together to form small villages and these were offered protection by the Windborn – in other words, they needed to supply the warrior caste with food or face its wrath. After all, Shagol needed to be satisfied with sacrifice and his sons were all too happy to throw any disobedient villagers into the sea, to whet their divine father's appetite for suffering.
