The Island of the Yleensa is a crucible where the continents of Yleen and Helve were once merged. The battle of the Good and Bad Spirit tore the lands apart, dotting the open Ocean of Narees with islands of various sizes. Although Yleen Proper, the mainland, is now submerged, only the tops of mountains and volcanoes attest to the vast land it once was. The Ocean of Narees expanded after the battle. Where it once only touched the coasts of Helve and Yleen Proper, it now reaches from Helve, throughout the islands, and far to the east until it laps at the shores of Camazotz.
The Island of the Yleensa is the largest, most densely populated of the thirty-six islands. This island was created from the largest volcano known in our world which the Good Spirit calmed for the last four centuries. The majority of the population lies at the northern foothills of this massive volcano. The northern shore holds the Yleensa Kingdom, a fertile ground with bountiful resources of pumice, volcanic ash, Ashen trees, marble, and caches of precious yarka – a stone coveted for creating energy via splitting in two with a copper tool.
The peoples of the island come from what remains of the human race that once populated Yleen Proper. However, the origins of their arrival is unknown, even in their pictorial history. The Yleensa are used as the Yazata sacrifices once crystals from the Good Spirit arrive to our world. The Yleensa who possess one blue eye and one gray are said to carry the genetic genes of their ancestry beyond humans. To know what this genetic code means, is as much of a mystery to them as it is to the rest of our world.
Excavations of the hardened ash from the ancient volcano eruption revealed details of Yleensa history. Ancient scrolls recovered from previous settlements and found in a variety of small caverns revealed that the Yleensa of old did not know where or how the humans crossed the world threshold either – telling of whether the legend is fact or of creative invention.
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As for the resting volcano, the previous known eruption, due to the Good and Bad Spirit battle is detailed in graphic paintings which were recovered during excavations of the previous Yleensa settlement on the southern side of the volcano. Remnants of the lost city were wiped from Yleensa history until the last fifty years when Seer Oculo received knowledge from the Good Spirit of its location.
Multicolor marbled walls and floors of an ancient theater were uncovered, dozens of golden statues of bear, deer, and trout – most likely from the mainland of Helve – were found in a well-preserved home which was encased in volcanic ash and frozen in time for centuries. The poses and postures of the last moments of life from the family found inside gave insight to Yleensa history, proving their pictorial traditions may have more truth than folklore as previously thought. Local paints still used in traditional paintings were found in kitchen hutches. An incomplete mural of a storm across the sky of Yleen Proper was recorded. According to Seer Oculo, it was of the incoming doom of the eruption and the sinking of Yleen Proper. But that begs the question – why did this family not leave if there was a warning and were Seers more deeply entrenched in the Yleensa culture and family life than currently where they serve only as workers to the Yleensa and their pictorial history?
It was once thought that many Yleensa escaped the terror of the volcanic eruption however, Seer Oculo located the remains of over four-thousand individuals on the shores while on their way to board ships, which dwarfs the previous estimation of only several hundred deaths. One ancient man in particular still haunts Seer Oculo. “It was as if this man, who made it to an old age, knew of his coming death. He stood at the foot of the ramp, his body frozen in time as he lead a child and a mother towards the deck.”
It is interesting to note, after extensive Seer cultivation similar to the Helvede practice of cellular morphology, the ruling Yleensa family since established on the northern shore was deemed to not be of the same lineage of the royal family entombed in their grand hall. Seer Oculo led the investigation and the findings were supported by the many pictorial images recovered from the Southern site.
Speculations abound as to why this is but several facts remain clear – the Bad Spirit caused a volcanic eruption to kill thousands and sink Yleen Proper, few Yleensa survived, Yleensa royal lineage shifted during this time. And although only a few paintings remained intact enough to document, all that Seer Oculo was able to uncover gave us a clear idea of what life was like in the Yleensa’s southern kingdom – abundance of resources and plenty of Yleensa peoples.