They did not understand why they were hated by the world. They were banished by their nations and they did not know why, they weren't the first and definitely not the last that this event has occurred, to their rudimentary knowledge the nations across the world did this because of various reasons.
Some were either because the nation could only support so many people and banished (or in extreme cases culled) people of their nation so they wouldn't collapse, another reason was that there was a deal about a certain number of persons being traded from a nation to another - the nations they were 'sold' to would care for them but they would live as they lived and fight what they fought, others did it simply because they could.
They never truly had a choice and likely never will, these pilgrims now search a new home many do not survive the travels being killed by bandits, monsters, or something worse. Many of these pilgrims condemn their souls to the abyss that is chaos because, to them, how could anything be worse to what they experienced.
Many cults seen in the world dedicated to chaos are mainly composed of these fallen pilgrims.
The fate of a group of exiled villagers would have likely been the same if they were not contacted by a group of diplomats in the service of the god of knowledge.
They accepted the offer, and were, surprisingly, delivered to Mousillon unharmed and with all their members alive.
After seeing the quality of life that the normal man and woman had in what they saw as a literal paradise and being said that their residences were already built and were waiting for them, they were praising the name of their savior…
Aleksander von Carstein, the god of knowledge would have their eternal loyalty.
They also had a particular person, Jeanne a girl who had just entered adulthood is already a great believer and has shown to be surprisingly good at leadership and the art of war, she was among the first members the holy judges...
