Editing DissidiaTemplar West Marches/The World (section)

== Skirmish at Muddyrocks Year 1,070==
Expanding the influence of the Cornian survivors beyond Hell's Point, a group of explorers are pleased to find a small cluster of ancient ruins with an assortment of potentially useful artifacts within. The artifacts have largely been exposed already and extraction promptly begins. Looting Recovery is suddenly interrupted, however, by an attack of a group of strange humanoids (mostly human). Injuries are sustained on both sides, a few are killed, but neither side is willing to press matters to a bloody conclusion.

One of the strangers approaches the expedition the next morning, however, alone and under some sort of banner that apparently signifies a desire for peace. Language barriers are quickly surmounted, largely through magic, and the stranger identifies himself and his compatriots as Favreni, specifically "Durscheni" (literally "the sundered"), who were already excavating the ruins before the Cornians' arrival. The situation quickly cools off and interesting talks begin.

The Durscheni, it turns out, are a sort of libertarian/survivalist element of the old Farven empire that established self-sustaining communities beyond the borders of the old empire rather than deal with the empire or the non-humanoid factions that tore it apart. They know a great deal of the history of the wider world, although their decentralized nature prevents them (by design) from becoming any sort of geopolitical power. Harv Fairhaired, the Cornian expedition leader, establishes the legal right (in New Cornia/Hell's Point) for the Durscheni to exploit the contested ruins called Muddyrocks. The Durscheni involved in the exploitation send Hell's Point a number of valuable gifts in return and establish diplomatic relations with these strange folk.