I don't know about this. There were pretty much 2 kinds of people at the end of the EWF -- those who dropped everything and fled and those who were eaten by dragons. The first abandoned their land and the second were destroyed (along, I suspect, with many of the wyters, spirits, and small gods). Knowledge of Dragon Pass must have been much less than "My great great (insert a bunch more greats) grandparents lived by the XYZ stream, let's go get it back" -- more along the lines of "my grandfather's cousin's grandfather's cousins used to live in the Quiven Mountains, then they got killed. Let's go there; it's got to be better than here." Certainly my impression from KoDP is not a move by people to retake specific parcels of ancestral ground; it was more like a land rush vaguely justified by the one-time ownership by kin. Sure the daimons respond to your prayers; they are Storm and Earth beings for the most part. They are probably not the ones that your ancestors worshipped, though.
I don't think this is like people reclaiming an abandoned villiage in their nation. It's more like England was totally depopulated, then people from Normandy, Germany, Scandanavia, and elsewhere moved in to take over the land. Sure, some records remain, and some people can claim a reasonably direct kinship connection, but there's definitely an elipsis there. I imagine the Sartari look to the Dawn for most of their "patriotic roots," they call on Heort and his kids, not, say, Ingolf Dragonfriend.
>There is still the 180 years of "No Go Zone" aspect to DP to make the land a
>partial howling wilderness (at least from a human PoV - Dragonewts, beast
>valley, trolls, The Dwarf, etc would have a whole different experience!)
>Maps from Before will no longer be valid for many things - cities and roads
>will be wiped away, and I bet a few hills and rivers are gone from where
>they once were.
It seems likely, making even the distantly recalled geography diffuse and remote.
Peter Larsen
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