In Terafa humans are unique amongst the races in that they alone do not have a creation myth. While elves and dwarves each maintain that they are the oldest of all the races, halflings trace their origins back to a single forbidden love, and dragonborn trace their ancestry to the hoards of the oldest wyrms, humans have no such tale.
Instead, the very oldest human myths speak of their arrival on Terafa from somewhere else. Those myths are inconsistent on whether humanity was driven out of their first home by environmental catastrophe, by the wrath of their first gods, or due to a rebellion against ancient masters (and, indeed, whether that rebellion was successful or failed), but the tale has it that they were forced to leave in a great Ark.
After many years of travelling in their Ark, humanity were discovered by the benevolent deity Choriim, himself wandering in a self-imposed exile from Terafa, and guided to their new home. For this reason, humanity will always count Choriam as their most faithful patron, while Choriam prizes humanity above all other peoples of the world - though he did not create them, it was he who brought them home.
Of course, shortly after the Arrival, the Usurper tried to sway the hearts of humanity to his cause, bidding as always to overthrow and drive out Choriam. But that is another story...
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