<<My players have decided they want to come from the Kultain tribe, which I
have found a comment (I think on Jane Williams pages) that they were forceably
broken up by the lunars in 1617 and the majority sent to the Sylangi (sp?).
Whjat I can't find out is _why_ they were broken up, I've had a brief look through KoS, but find only a passing reference to Kultain's existance, and nothing on their demise.
Does anyone have any clues for me?>>
The only official material on this AFAIK runs as follows:
"After the succesful invasion of Volsaxiland in 1619 the Lunar command broke up the Kultain tribe and distributed its clans to the neighbouring Sartarite and Volsaxi tribes. The majority of clans went to the Sylangi tribe of the Volsaxi. I believe that this move was meant to reduce the tensions and long-standing rivalries between the Sartarite and Volsaxi tribes."
source: Tribes & Population of Sartar by David Hall & Greg Stafford, in Questlines #1 (and I think in TotRM as well).
So it appears to have been a political move by Fazzur to ensure that other Sartarite tribes had relatives on the other side of the border in Heortland and hopefully wouldn't beat each other up too much. The other clans were presumably distributed between the Balmyr and Locaem tribes, previously allied with the Kultain as part of the Wilmskirk tribal confederation, both which have a noticeable increase in population between 1610 and 1621.
If you want to have the Kultain king causing a lot of trouble for the Lunars, that would still fit well, although it isn't mentioned specifically in the source material. After all, Fazzur's political move could have worked just as well with a portion of the Kultain clans being placed under the Sylangi and a reduced tribe of 5000 or so remaining in Sartar. That he chose not to do this suggests IMO that the Kultain and/or their king had done something to piss him off although not something so serious that he couldn't afford to wait until the appropriate time politically before dividing the tribe up.
<<I have a fragmentary memory of a tribe broken up for rebelling when a lunar
tax collector raped a chief's daughter, but I'm under the impression it wasn't
the Kultain.>>
Right - it was the Dundealos.
Forward the glorious Red Army!
Trotsky
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