Humans came from Sarlona. The pioneer Lhazaar is acknowledged as the leader of this migration, but the journey was not accomplished in a single massive exodus from Sarlona to Khorvaire. Rather, the migrants came in waves, over the course of perhaps a hundred years.
These first waves of human migrants left Sarlona’s western shore and arrived in what is now the Lhazaar Principalities some three thousand years ago. Some were explorers, seeking new vistas. Some were settlers, tired of warfare and hoping to claim new lands and improve their lives. Some were opportunists, entrepreneurs, and conquerors, looking for wealth they could unearth, trade for, or steal. Lhazaar herself made several journeys between Sarlona and Khorvaire, making enormous profits off the exotic goods she brought back to her homeland as well as the Sarlonan goods she sold to the goblinoids that still held Khorvaire despite the fall of the Dhakaani Empire.
At first, the settlers were few in number and relied on friendly relations with the goblinoids to survive in this unfamiliar land. Within a century, however, their numbers had grown dramatically and they began to expand westward.
Humanity was a relatively young and versatile race, and the goblinoids were a shattered remnant of empire. The hobgoblins and bugbears fled belowground, leaving the surface to the goblins. The goblins were more plentiful than the humans, but they were disorganized and individually weak, still struggling to rule themselves with their empire gone and their power structure collapsed. Goblin chieftains led small clans whose superior knowledge of the land gave them early victories over the human invaders. However, humanity’s strength, versatility, and adaptability turned the tide in the end. Goblin clans fell by the score, their survivors taking flight or surrendering in the face of the humans’ might. Numerous human heroes arose during this time, and their names can still be found on statues, on cities, on inscriptions in ancient items, and on the lips of their admirers.