I would interject a piece of information here too.
A characteristic of all peoples that survived the Darkness is their own
"How We Survived" myth.
The " Fought We Won" is the secret story of the Heortlings.
The Dragon Pass peoples were one of the stronger human groups that survived
the Darkness, in large part due to their relationship with Orlanth, leader
of the LBQ.
After the Dawn missionaries from Dragon Pass Heortlings went out to "bring
the light" to the rest of the half-blind world. They wen through Wenelia
and into Ralion in the first couple centuries. They brought the religon of
Orlanth and the LBQ (but did not share the Heortling secret of IFWW because
the people already had their own story).
The really small human populations of the Dawn Age did not give much
variation to the rituals and practices of the Orlanthi Religion for the
first 500 years. Of course the fractious actions of the GbajiWars brought
forth all the differences at first, then the unities.
In the Imperial Age the regional Orlanthi practices diverged, but they
still recognize the same Orlath entity now, since the most divergent
Dragonic Orlanthi were all (yes All (Yes, I mean the "Orlanthi all"))
killed. Alakoring was relatively traditional at that time, and the Ralios
form of worship was brought back to Peloria and Dragon Pass as his "old way."
Through all of this, the various "How we survived the darkness" story would
have been a part of the various different regional religions.
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