I’ve always found unlikely that, as reported in The Book of D’ni, there was almost no opposition among the D’ni survivors about resettling on Rehleeshahn. Consider the perspective of a conservative D’ni: a woman from the Surface shows up in D’ni, learns the language, marry a high-ranking member of the Guild of Surveyors, and a few years later the Cavern is rendered uninhabitable as a consequence of a conspiracy that, in some way, is related to that outsider.
Then, a few more years later, some unknown guy shows up, offering a new home for the D’ni; he turns out to be the grandson of that very outsider, that he has also married an outsider (an Age dweller, too), has imprisoned his own father who was just trying to make D’ni great again, had in turn being imprisoned by his degenerate sons (a clear example of what happens when D’ni and outsiders mix), has been doing unsanctioned experiments with the Art. Later, it turns out that his crazy daughter also has been experimenting with the Art and sided with the bahro slaves (which, before the Fall, would have made her an Enemy of the Empire).
So, it seems more likely to me that those D’ni who followed Atrus were one group, while other D’ni took refuge somewhere else. Here comes the wild speculation: given the great attention that the pod Age was getting before tha Fall, it could be that it was being considered for a possible colony, in case something happened to the Cavern (as it did). We don’t see settlements, because the pods we have access to are the discarded ones, used for the early surveys. Any linking book to the actual settlement would’ve been removed or destroyed before abandoning the Cavern: note how none of the available pods are close to Rigilas, Hayvuh or the north of Payiferen or Cheecho.
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