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[[File:Iarthair_Chorcaí_075.jpg|left|thumb|200px|The remains of Lamazip'ort'isi, west of the town of Répit.]]

 

Though Tsivikhli was the first settlement to permanently establish in Arcturia, the settlement's location proved too hostile to any permanent settlement efforts, with a boreal climate and shallow soil insufficient for growing crops or feeding livestock. As such this first settlement was quickly abandoned with the settlers opting to return to Aurora. A few years in 1299, after the failed Tsivikhli settlement, [[Orik Oluvioni]], son to mapmaker [[Davit Oluvioni]], headed the Lamaz Voyage, made up of a fleet of five [[w:Caravel|p'anviri's]]. This voyage made landfall on the southern coast of the modern-day [[Kéya|Kéyais]] island of Tempête-Éternelle. The port that was formed on this island was called Lamazip'ort'isi, literally translating to "beautiful port," and it would serve as Salovia's primary Arcturian colonial settlement for the next half century before it, along with the other major settlements at the time, fell under siege by the [[Kormistazm|Kormistazic Empire]] in the War of Tsivinap'iro. This conflict forced the roughly 3,500 surviving settlers to flee northwards, towards any settlements that would accept them. As they sailed north, coastal Kormistazic settlements found in modern-day [[Quariin]] refused them, until they eventually were allowed to land in Finica, the northernmost settlement of Kormistazm. There, the Salovian settlers were coerced into signing a treaty of surrender, known as the Treaty of Finica. The treaty laid out that the settlers would be allowed to live in Finica under the condition that the Salovian settlers pay off the debts of the war in which they had fought in the form of manual labor, namely farming and mining. This arrangement effectively made the Salovian settlers indentured servants to the town of Finica until they paid off their debts.