>Jonatela and the Janube. The wild lands are not covered in this
>series, due to the wide cultural gulf between them and the Malkioni
>(who are the main focus of LotW).
*nod* Sorry, I meant Jonatela (as the one "kingdom" there). The wildlands have to be addressed insomuch as they impinge on the area, of course, but you are writing a series on Malkioni.
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>Sorry - I meant the pre-Siglat Hrestoli. Mind you, by the late Third
>Age, it's not what you'd call an *organised* Church...
*nod* This is the impression I am taking away here. That's actually MORE interesting in some ways. In a way, post God Learners, we have a situation of serious disarray, with only very general trends keeping things together. Given that there is as much a question of renouncing the GL situation as there is just a fracturing of the empire, I suspect there wasn't even broad agreement, or broad swaths that considered themselves single churches. I know people have discussed Ecumenical councils and such in the past, I'm not even sure who would be big enough to sit on them.
This makes me re-assess Rokar a bit actually. It seems like his reforms are more radical than I originally thought, with a return to very rigid interpretation of caste structure and an attempt to push down the importance of the saints. In a way, he is the first big, successful attempt and a new reunification. The New Loskalmi church becomes the next big one, given weight by the unified front and importance of Loskalm. I'd think there are many, many variations scattered through the rest of the west, still drawing on the Abiding Book, but having made different accommodations post the fall of the Empire.
That's a FAR more interesting scenario for people to play with, which is nice.
LC
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