The Vauxian Exodus

When it became obvious what the Inquisition was doing to their people, it was too late to do anything but flee. The evil grip of the Inquisition was tight, but not yet perfected, allowing some Vaux an opportunity to slip through their fingers like grains of sand. They had to leave everything behind, except what they could realistically carry on their persons for survival.

Their home, with its unique architecture and landscaping was left vacant and would be razed to the ground by the Inquisition in pursuit of the Vauxian bones that they hid into the designs. The Vauxian innovations, artworks, libraries, and anything else that could link back to the atrocities of genocide of those in power were destroyed. The Inquisition would be thorough, appointing special task forces for the sole purpose of eliminating every instance of Vauxian existence. It would not take long before nothing remained but memory of these once beautiful, mysterious, charitable and active peacemakers; and not but three generations later, not even memory remained.

The Vaux went in multiple directions during the exodus in order to increase their chance of evading the efforts of the Inquisition and their Arbiters. There hope to spread and confuse their pursuers was ineffective. Only the group that went southeast towards Kru’ll managed to survive, the rest all being captured and slaughtered. This was in part because the elderly, injured, or selflessly brave Vaux of this group sacrificed themselves by forming smaller groups that would venture off in opposing directions to throw the scent off the main group. It worked; however, every one of these decoy offshoots were eventually discovered and executed.

With the war now strongly and inevitably in the favor of the Inquisition, the new governing powers realized that their supply of magik nullifying vaux was not an infinite supply. In their haste to win they had not thought long term. The order was sent out to no longer kill Vaux, but capture; treating them as an endangered species. Those of age, or capable one day, to breed would be used for making more; while those no longer able to be used in breeding would be killed. In this way the Inquisition realized they could make a perpetual army, not just equipped with magik resistance but their own people with the ability. And those that were born without the trait, (because only Vaux with Vaux guaranteed it) would simply be raised from infancy as zealots for the pillars.

By the time the new order reached far and wide though, all Vaux had been eliminated. While the Inquisition would still have their weapons, armors, and other apparatus with the gift of the vaux, they realized their error and were dismayed that they didn’t figure out this better solution before it was too late.

While they had their best secret agents search for decades they were not able to locate anymore. There literally weren’t anymore to find and when these individuals died so did the last few people on earth that had any idea that the Vaux existed at all. Little did they know that a small group of 73 Vauxians were still alive, having found their way into the uncharted jungles of Kru’ll; the last of their kind. Forgotten, but hardly safe just yet.