[quote=@Shorticus]
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Well, again: explorers might go far enough to stumble on the Ayels and get into some trouble with them. If you want that to happen, it happens.
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Hah, well I'd have to expand out a bit first (which will happen in the third century), and then it'd be the humans they stumble upon anyway. It's gotten to the point that the Ayels themselves rarely, if ever, leave their section of Qa-Avnel.