+Solitude of testing
I do not doubt that during the Solitude of Testing, life was tough for
the Sun Domer.
They had better lives than the Oasis people thanks to their fortifications. The nomads could not raid as they wanted. It means that the Sun Domers had some herd beasts and that they kept around one fourth of the harvest while the Oasis people have almost no herd beasts and keep only one fifth of their harvest. It was better, but not much.
At the Sun Dome temple, most of the yard was converted into barley
fields. It is then that the count began to have to ask permission from
the high priest to cast a sunspear.
Many counts were nomads (it helps when your nation has a camp near the
temple), but the Sun Dome was never successfully raided, and the
priesthood remained (mostly) pure of nomad membership.
When Narokomis became count, he managed to reunify the county, and to restore the phalanx. Since the Sun Dome never fell, the archives never burned. He had archives on how to train a phalanx. The phalanx restoration allowed to drive once again the nomads out of the Sun county lands.
In nomad gods, the nomads sometimes hire the Sun domer. IMO they pay in herd beast (impala or sable), or in metal. All they have to do is to go near the copper sands, and they can scoop as much copper as they want. For gold, tin, bronze and iron, they can always trade with Kralorela.
When Monrogh (Tarkalor's friend) came to Sun County, the county had been freed from nomad influence for around a century (ie since around 1450). The Sun Domer could no longer be confused with Oasis people.
Peace
Jean
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