>It seems like in Kralorela not much "changed" - in fact this age would
>be considered to a blessed uninteresting time where the people were
>not threatened by foreign devils. They do wage some military
>campaigns against Teshnos, and perhaps try to conquer Vormain? (Or is
>that in the 2nd Age?)
The Kralori have neither the Immanent Masters nor the Army of Every Death.
There is a large community of dwarfs in the hills somewhere (similar to those in Diamond Mountain) that the Kralori defeat in 560 ST. Given that the Dwarves were allied with Trolls at the time, I place them in the North near Bliss in Ignorance.
There has been an unpublished map which I have been told shows the Hsunchen in control of large parts of Kralorela during this age but since the map is old and given Revealed Mythologies, I think the political situation more complicated.
The invasion of Vormain is, I think, by Shang Hsa. The wars with Teshnos would take place in my opinion between the Sunstop and Errinoru's voyages.
>In the Eastern Isles, I believe there may have been something called
>the Mirror War (or perhaps that was sometime during the Demigods
>Cycle), and the rise of the Three Sages.
The Mirror War is, I think, the Vithelan memory of the Sunstop. The Pirate Empire and Sea Lords mentioned in the story of the Three Sages is probably that of Teleos, which makes this event a post-dawn one IMO.
>Not much is mentioned about Teshnos. I believe that Historangor (sp?)
>of Gach lead his army to conquer the isle of Melib from the Ashurtan
>demon-folk, but was trapped there and cursed by the ghost of the Blues
>to follow their gods.
Hisgoranstor's conquest of Melib was in mythic times. In the Dawn Age, the Gachi are the dominant ethnicity there.
>I trust that the Pentapartite Dynasty that
>rules in the Imperial Age controlled Teshnos politically in this time.
My own opinion is that the Vessel of Light occupies a place in Teshnos similar to that of the Dragon Emperor of Kralorela. After a treaty was made with Errinoru, the magics of it backfired and inflicted the slumber of Teshnos and the Vessel of Light is spiritually asleep. The Pentapartite Dynasty is, I think, a replacement source of leadership that has occluded the original in pretty much the same way as the Shoguns ruled Japan rather than the Emperor.
>What I'm most curious about is if the Teshnans interacted at all with
>the First or Second Council.
The answer to that hinges on Praxian history, namely the first and second migrations. Originally the Praxians lived in Prax. During the Great Darkness, Waha taught some of them how to live in the Greatlands on a season migration route while the others lived in Prax all year around. After the Pure Horse came to Prax, the stay-at-homes were forced to become migrants too and this is the Second Migration. Now since Teshnos, like the Monster Men Lands, are the furthest from Prax, I don't think the Praxians would have reached Teshnos until the Second Migration was forced to seek more living room in the Imperial Age.
That only leaves the Sea Route. How much the Waertagi allowed others to travel is not known as the God Learners didn't have a good knowledge of Prax or Kralorela until after the battle of Tanian's victory. On the other hand, there is the known case of Treack Markhor, a Lhankhor Mhy Sage who found the skull of Atyar on some deserted island in Vithela before or during the Imperial Age.
Personally I believe the skull of Atyar is at Than Ulbar and the story of the Vithelan Island is misinformation. So this leaves little or no contact with Teshnos except through a roundabout route through Pent and Kralorela.
There is a third route which involves Wind Children but I don't know their reaction to Nysalor.
--Peter Metcalfe
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