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༺Forgotten Beauty༻

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Back in the time of around 900-1500 AD the Lucayan people settled in what is now known today as Cuba.
They lived a peaceful life and had even developed political, social, and religious systems.

In 1492, Christopher Columbus arrived on the island of San Salvador. Inspired by the surrounding shallow sea, Christopher named the islands “baja mar” meaning shallow sea, which is now in modern days known as The Islands Of The Bahamas.
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When Christopher arrived to baja mar, there were about 40,000 Lucayans living there. Due to the Lucayan's peaceful nature, they were made easy targets for enslavement.
Within 25 years of the enslavement, all of the Lucayans were wiped out due to diseases and hardships of slavery they endured.
But what we didn't know was that not all the Lucayans died a small number of about 10-15 escaped their enslavement and tried to flee, only three of them successfully escaped to modern day Merida.
Eight of them died trying to escape, either by drowning or malnutrition. But what no one knows about are the four other Lucayans...

While the other 11 Lucayans tried to escape West to Merida, they decided to go East knowing that if those who escaped were to be chased they would go West towards the other Lucayans. The four of them were able to steal a small wooden boat and set sail East.
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This was the start of their long journey to what would later become Forgotten Beauty. The four of them continued to go East looking for land.
They were caught at the edge of a large storm and their boat was damaged. One of them died from drowning but the other three survived and continued not only East, but South. Hugging the right of South America all the way past Brazil and the branching out more East.
Running low on food, the three survivors were desperate for salvation and started to try and paddle the boat. Due to the extreme heat the three of them were said to have past out from heat stroke.

Days later one of them quickly awoke under water. He started to swim upwards, thrashing, to get air. He made it to the top of the water to realize that the boat had tipped upside down, docked onto the beach.
He soon realized the other two weren't in sight. He desperately swam under the boat to find them. He then saw one unconsious on the shore of the beach. He then dove back into the cold waters, swimming below the boat to find the other Lucayan, slowly drifting to the inky depths below.
He swam after her to carry her back up to only realize he was out of air.

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Suddenly a loud thrash was made and the water, the other man dove in and helped him carry her out. The two men gasped for air as they slid the women to the beach.
Moments later she started to cough violently, spitting out water. The first man reacted quickly pressing on her chest forcing out a large amount of water. She started to breathe and opened her eyes.

The three of them started to laugh, realizing they had made it. The three then got up realizing the giant beach they were on.
They started to venture up the beach into the trees where they came out onto a cliffside where they then saw the beauty of the island, the plantlife was lush green, the clear cyan waters flowing, the birds soaring through the sky.

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The three had forgotten the value of nature and realized they had to protect this island, this beauty. They set out to survive and protect the island, keeping it a secret for the next hundreds of years, generation after generation protecting it, using as little of its resources as possible, hiding it from the world to preserve it.
People forgot about the Lucayans that had escaped. This new hidden island thrived. They wrote their stories down, maps of the islands, their drawings and its secrets. They advanced and progressed in secret and still have, undetected for years upon end as the rest of society and its greenery crumbles...

This is how Forgotten Beauty came to be...
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