Temporarily. Not before he'd had his way with the city. He absorbed every last ounce of power from it and turned himself into a raging storm. [Remember the shadow hand that made us pancakes? Yeah that was him.] The sky went dark, the suns eclipsed... the bioquakes were disastrous.

We trapped him, before he could go too far. But our city was destroyed, and we had no safe way to wake our people.

So we fled, past the Great Barrier, to look for a place we could call shelter. And we had to leave our people behind in the process.

[Remember the giant sea wall that said shadow hand made us pancakes against?]