"Halamshiral - the end of the journey - was our capital, built out of the reach of the humans. We could once again forget the incessant passage of time. Our people began the slow process of recovering the culture and traditions we had lost to slavery."
"We could once again forget the incessant passage of time. Our people began the slow process of recovering the culture and traditions we had lost to slavery. But it was not to last. They first sent missionaries into the Dales, and then, when those were thrown out, templars. We were driven from Halamshiral, scattered."
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"The End of the Long Walk," as told by Gisharel, keeper of the Ralaferin clan of the Dalish elves