If you haven’t read any new Valdemar books since the 2000s btw it’s now canon that they escaped from…

If you haven’t read any new Valdemar books since the 2000s btw it’s now canon that they escaped from an evil, decadent Empire in the East and colonized the West, virtuously, via an alliance with the Hawkbrothers, who are in tune with nature and recognized the inherent Goodness of the Valdemarans enough to grant them land, which land by the way is uhhh [checks notes] yeah it was the better farmland…