Quote:Tinkering with the NPC clan my own character came out of, I'd assumed they were a bunch of families at the periphery of the Gelmorran civilisation (not city itself) who took over a small network of caverns during the chaos of the surface return five centuries ago and never looked back.
This is pretty much how I play it off as well.  Syranelle grew up in a sort of off-shoot cavern system from Gelmorra and her survival colony was driven to the surface by the Calamity, where they learned to survive there and all that.  So they have Gelmorran ancestry, since they never came topside, but they aren't directly from Gelmorra.
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