After the dragonkill, most of the yelmalions were killed and the cult remained active only in the peripheral Sun Dome Temples. The cult lost vitality, either because Yelmalio withdrew from the world or because of the loss of organisation and the isolation of each temple, or both. The temples could not or would not work together anymore. In many temples the god came to be worshipped under a plethora of local names, all with the title of "yelmalio" or "brightness of Yelm". Some even went back to relics of the first age, when Yelmalio was known as Daysenerus.
Few of the surviving Sun Dome Temples embraced the growing Lunar Empire. Those that did were not strong enough to provide a path for the recalcitrant Elmal-worshippers of the south into the embrace of the Goddess, as the cult of Doburdun helped the worshippers of the rebel storm to find peace with Her.
Only with the revelation of Monrogh could the cult of Yelmalio be revitalised and grow strong again. Only after Monrogh could the brightness of Yelm shine upon the southern barbarians in its full glory. Many of the Sun Dome Temples that never lost their Light did not hear or accept Monrogh's revelation, claiming that it is not of the One Sun, but a bastard of Many Suns.
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