Lately, there's been some debate on the whereabouts of the missing Blue
Vadeli. Personally, I always thought that the enslaved Blues of
Pamaltela were the shattered remains of the Blue Vadeli caste. Off the
top of my head I remember they once controlled a vast Empire dedicated
to Artmal and the Blue Moon, but couldn't these be distorted
rememberences of (or even God Learner misinformation about) the Vadeli
sea domininence? I always thought it would be fun to run a Pamaltelean
campaigh where the characters were oppressed Blues struggling for
freedom, keep it going for a while, then, when all looked darkest, have
a bunch of Red Vadeli show up, bow down to the lowly Blue PCs and
pronounce them masters of the seas.
On a side note, one of my oldest RQ characters was an Esrolian from a
region known as "New Vadeli," inhabited by "descendents of refugees of
a lost people." Now this was ages ago (15+ yrs) and I had no idea who
the Vadeli were. One day the GM (who was an RQ II playtesters and part
of the Chaosium house campaign) casually mentioned that my character
(and one or two other PCs) had blue skin. Now, I'm still running this
character (off and on) and after 15 years of RQ he is by far my most
frightening character (you know the type, Humakti of involved I admit I
mostly like this idea for , , I offer the following theory: