After an argument with the Bandit Chief MacDougal, during the olthoi occupation of Dereth, the bandit MacNiall led a group of his fellows through a portal to escape an attacking olthoi horde. MacNiall met a group led by Zenzaburou Hensu and the two groups joined one another for a time in the isolated Vensayen Isles. The principles that Zenzaburou wished to form a new township were not to MacNiall and his crew's liking though and thus they travelled into the more dangerous wilds of the archipelago and founded MacNiall's Freehold. The town remained isolated from the rest of Dereth until Leafcull, PY 11 (Should the Stars Fall) when new portals opened access to the archipelago once more.