>I don't think the Basmoli of the Grey Age who
>dominated parts of Seshnela and Ralios were much like the defeated Basmoli
>of today. It's quite likely they at one time practiced sorcery, and only
>devolved into "cave men" after suffering numerous defeats.
It depends on what you mean by "sorcery". If you mean that they practiced the materialistic magic of the west wholescale then I doubt this very much. If OTOH you merely meant they had independent shamans like the Ituvanu of the Telmori, then that's fine by me.
>Nothing prevents
>the Kingdom of the Basmoli [Genertela Book p.79] from being civilized, or
>at least chiefdom-level, people who worshipped their lion ancestors.
Basically I would look to the Linda Schele Books about the Maya and inser some Olmec Jaguar cults and replace them with lions.
>As I recall, there are hints of a Telmori civilization in Dorastor: Land of
>Doom.
To wit: One fort called "Old Wolf Fort" and the "City of Wolves" mentioned in Cults of Terror. But meeting places do not a civilization make as the Rathori and the Uncolings have similar meeting places and nobody describes them as civilized.
>Again, I suspect the rulers of this would not much resemble the
>Telmori of today (who are also a defeated people). Probably Barbarian, in
>RQ3 terms, rather than Primitive. If people still lived in "packs" the
>packs would have hierarchies.
I really think this notion of people degenerating into "cavemen" after they had been defeated is patently ridiculous. The welsh, for example, are not cavemen despite having been seemingly expelled from much of England by the anglo-saxons. There would be stronger similarities between the cultures above and beyond the fact that they worship wolves, then you would suggest.
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