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As the early Phoenicians fled Thera (now Santini) in the Mediterranean in the 16th century BC, they brought with them many of the Cherubhim - the part-human / part-animal beings that had been created during the Heaven Wars as shock troops and specialists. For a while they tried settling in the wilds of Thessaly and around the Black Sea, but human encroachment drove their numbers down and forced them increasingly to rely upon magical glamours to keep themselves protected. For a while they became a part of Greek legend and even mythology - dryads and satyrs, centaurs and minotaurs, harpies and gorgons and sirens and werefolk, but their numbers continued to dwindle. By the fifth century BC, they boarded Phoenician ships once more, sailing into the setting sun, until their fleet was washed ashore on the island of Eire, and from there North and East to the land of Hibernia, modern Scotland. Many, used to a balmier clime, died out, but the dryads and satyrs would become glaistigs and urisks, and centaurs lived on as feareichs and beaneachs. They would adapt well with the human folk, for they made natural shepherds and hard workers, while the glaistigs and urisks often became servants of the Scottish wizards descended from the Phoenician magis. When the Scots and Irish migrated to North America, the descendents of the Cherubhim went with them, especially into the mountains of Appalachia and the woods of the Pacific Northwest.

Description
As the early Phoenicians fled Thera (now Santini) in the Mediterranean in the 16th century BC, they brought with them many of the Cherubhim - the part-human / part-animal beings that had been created during the Heaven Wars as shock troops and specialists. For a while they tried settling in the wilds of Thessaly and around the Black Sea, but human encroachment drove their numbers down and forced them increasingly to rely upon magical glamours to keep themselves protected. For a while they became a part of Greek legend and even mythology - dryads and satyrs, centaurs and minotaurs, harpies and gorgons and sirens and werefolk, but their numbers continued to dwindle. By the fifth century BC, they boarded Phoenician ships once more, sailing into the setting sun, until their fleet was washed ashore on the island of Eire, and from there North and East to the land of Hibernia, modern Scotland. Many, used to a balmier clime, died out, but the dryads and satyrs would become glaistigs and urisks, and centaurs lived on as feareichs and beaneachs. They would adapt well with the human folk, for they made natural shepherds and hard workers, while the glaistigs and urisks often became servants of the Scottish wizards descended from the Phoenician magis. When the Scots and Irish migrated to North America, the descendents of the Cherubhim went with them, especially into the mountains of Appalachia and the woods of the Pacific Northwest.