I've been setting up a new campaign which will revolve around the resurrection of Genert, so it's going to be pretty epic. Of course i also have a slew of questions i'd like answers to or commented upon.
RoC says that Pavis County produces cavalry horses and high quality leather, and i assume that most of the people in Pavis County are orlanthi in origin, so is Elmal, who is the orlanthi horse god, widely worshipped among them, or did the elmalites all move to Sun County (where the horse business was later dropped for some obscure reason)?
Also i wonder if there is a possibility that Elmal during the years has been reforged with Mahome and created a female sun goddess (Elome) mythically married to Barntar, the male earth god? The existence of this goddess could explain why the Sun County deem it a crime if male yelmalions disguise themselves as women, as Yelmalio is a rival to Elome.
I aired this idea some time ago and got some comments. As i think it would be quite interesting to have a female sun goddess, but don't have a really good place to put her, i'd welcome comments as to whether the Zola Fel farmers could worship her or not.
And who is the praxian sun/sky god/goddess anyway? And is it a benign or malign deity? The most immediate guess would of course be Sun Hawk who teaches the virtues of Patience and Strength of Will.
Speaking of leather - Brygga Scissortongue of the Garhound family is guildmaster for the cloth and leather workers guild, so does Garhound have a large leather industry?
As Garhound is locally known to be the birthplace of Ernalda which means that there should be at least a major temple there and quite a lot of priestesses there, i think that women directly rule most of the domestic stuff and indirectly influence a lot of everything else.
A lot of EWF orlanthi followed Pavis into Prax, but were they clan-based or did they have a slightly different social hierachy? I think that the old Pavis County orlanthi have very large 'clans' made up of unaffiliated households ruled by an ueber-family or noble house in a patron-client system. A civilized lunar would of course have big troubles trying to discern the difference between the 'noble' families from the rest.
What would be the effects of the immigrants following Dorasar and the recent waves of refugees from Sartar, and in what numbers did they come - in hundreds or in thousands? Did they all move into Pavis or did they predominantly settle in Pavis County? What were their effects on the local traditions - did they assimiliate into the existing culture without major disruption or were the local traditions replaced with Sartarite practices?
What about Issaries and Desert Trackers? Kost the Tracker is a beast rider, so is Issaries or the DT subcult widely acknowledged among the beast riders? Seeing that Issaries was a major player during the second age, i guess that the cult was widely disseminated among the nomads, especially as a go-between in dealings between the farmers and the nomads. Is Ronance a son of Issaries and a daughter of Genert?
G:CotHW says that Beast Riders move about in 'tribes'. Bison Riders number 80 000 and i refuse to believe that the tribe includes all of them, as they could never find a place that could sustain such a large herd. So how large is a tribe?
Speaking of Bison - Between Adari and Tada's High Tumulus lies the Bison Plains. Is this place a Bison Rider haunt or do wild bison roam there?
From DP the boardgame i know of three secret societies - the Twin Spears, the Sword Brothers and the Bullocks. I guess the Bullocks is the same as the White Bull society. But what are the other two? Are other societies mentioned somewhere? I don't have the OOP Prax stuff, so wouldn't know if any appear there.
Lastly - have anybody done a praxian bestiary, or at least a list of critters found in the wastes? Or do anyone have a list of praxian plants. If there isn't i could make one. Could you all please help me out with it and send me info on what can be found in Prax.
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