Editing Heartdwellers (section)

==History==
The Heartdwellers were established in [needs to be plotted on the timeline. Probably a few centuries before current.] when the influential leader of a Korumi clan named [needs name] swayed most of his clan toward his beliefs about their people belonging in the heart of Korum, deep beneath the surface. He led his clan to leave their surface homes at the town of [name needed] (now a historic ruins site) and build a new home in the deep caverns near their old residence. He then led a project to dig down even deeper and establish their home twice as deep. Meanwhile, at his orders, waves of missionaries were sent to go to other Kroumi settlements to invite them to join in their project. This caused their numbers to double, and would eventually lead to more sects of Heartdwellers to form and dig their own colonies in other parts of the world.

Halfway through the first big dig an earthquake shook the Heartdweller's region and led to a massive collapse of their new home site and a major setback to their progress, but little loss of lives because they hadn't moved their residences there yet. Undeterred, [name of leader from above] and his followers continued the dig and eventually finished the migration of their people to [need name for this city], the first city that the Heartdwellers had cut out themselves. [leader's name] rested only briefly before setting out to dig further so that the next generation could live even deeper, but disaster struck yet again and caused the tunnel and a large portion of their city to cave in, killing hundreds, including [leader's name]. Some surface dwellers tell of that event like a cautionary tale, saying that [leader's name] was punished by a divine force for his hubris and reaching too far below, but the Heartdwellers would banish such stories about their beloved leader in their territory.

In the years after [leader's name]'s death, the Heartdwellers would work feverishly to invent better ways to shore up their tunnels and city. Once they were confident that their future dig projects would be safe, they continued [leader's name]'s vision and dug down to rebuild their city deeper still. They continued digging deeper and wider over the decades, making the deepest city the heart of their civilization, while the "overflow" inhabited some of the older sites and offshoots from the main tunnel line. Some of the other sects of Heartdwellers that weren't too far away managed to cut tunnels leading to the main city to connect their settlements, but some that were too far away slowly lost contact with the main city as it became harder to communicate because of the lengthening trek to the surface and the growing stigma of being on the surface for any length of time. These offshoot sects live to the [leader's name]'s original plan as they interpret it, but thanks to their isolation have warped the ideals somewhat.

As time passed, the Heartdwellers have only become more obsessed with digging deeper and separating themselves from the surface world. Laws discouraging or forbidding visitors from the surface or Heartdwellers leaving to visit the surface were passed, with varying strictness. Then, in [needs to be plotted on the timeline. Somewhere around a century before current, maybe.], the people of the main group of Heartdwellers decided to block any possibility of intruders from the surface by building a mighty wall and then causing an intentional cave-in in front of it, preventing anyone from going any further than the abandoned ruins of [name of the first city they cut from above]. The tunnels between the main tunnel of the Heartdwellers and the other sects still remain, but are heavily guarded with multiple layers of fortification. Some of the other sects still allow visitors under rare circumstances, but the main cities of the original Heartdwellers are unreachable by any outsiders, perhaps ever again.