Excerpt from The Chronicles of Ages: Volume 2: Architecture and Design after the Oort by Gallian of the Terian.
Long ago, after the collapse, when the Oort left us alone in the Silence, our people were spread across the worlds. With only the portals to connect us, we began to build cities around the magics of the portals, as the Oort once had. We explored, and soon found the world known as Kovah. We established a beach head near a mountain and pushed our way outwards. The city grew as other worlds began to link themselves to it. It became The Place where Portals Meet, the Capital of our new civilization…