>The OOO collected
>from the lands around the Shadow Plateau, which did overlap with the
>Heortling lands along the lower Creek-Stream River, perhaps up to the
>Lakes.
I agree about up to the lakes.
>The Sazdorf Trolls definitely belong to Dagori Inkarth, those of
>the Troll Woods to the OOO.
The Sazdorf Trolls didn't exist at this time and their home is a dwarf mansion that was built during the days of the EWF.
>I don't know much about the situation in the
>former Jorganostelli lands (modern Grazelands and Esrolian North March).
Why would the OOO not collect taxes from them considering they are closer to his lands than they are to Dagori Inkarth?
>> The
>> OOO would have had collected Arkat's Command from the southern half
>> of Dragon Pass at least.
>Why? He had all of Esrolia to collect from.
Because he's greedy - he tried to gain control of Dragon Pass during the Inhuman Occupation (when he already had Esrolia). Furthermore Esrolia wasn't becoming densely populated until the second age.
>>>IMO the OOO ruled over the Hendriki who, as supporters of Arkat,
>>>would have had a better deal.
>> All Heortlings (Hendriki included) fought against Nysalor. For their
>> pains, they are made subjects of the trolls and have to pay a
>> loathsome tax. Somehow I think Arkat has acted true to his nature
>> and shafted his human supporters.
>Quite a lot of Heortlings submitted to Palangio's rule when the Obsidian
>Palace and the Hendriki in the mountains held out.
And to punish the Heortlings for surrendering is like putting France under military occupation after the second world war for submitting to Hitler. Rather harsh, don't you think?
[Diwan parallel noted and snipped - personally I think the tribes who paid Arkat's Command had to pay it in human flesh]
>To get back to Arkat's command: the role of the trolls in the Gbaji-wars
>is undisputed. Arkat gave them a stipend for their success against the
>Bright Empire, not for their (immense, compared to the Heortlings - the
>Trollkin Curse!) suffering from the empire.
Bear in mind that many heortlings once liberated (by the Army of the West, not the Trolls) were only too happy to conquer Dara Happa for Arkat (without Troll Help). So why are they being punished by paying Arkat's Command?
>This would also explain why the high kings of the Heortlings (or "of
>Heortland") were Hendriki afterwards.
What is your source for this statement? I know of no High King of the Heortlings after Arkat's War.
>> Geolgin is
>> quite unusual as he comes from the _Stygian_ Temple of Lhankor Mhy.
>> One is given a vision of Lhankor Mhy Sages dressed in black, with
>> a few scrolls short of a shelf, trying to develop their darksense
>> by wearing blindfolds...
>Well, take off the blindfold, and recognize that the Stygian period of
>the Lhankor Mhy temple in Nochet is referred to.
It is? It appears to be a distinct temple from Nochet. Minaryth Purple writing in 1622 calls it the 'Stygian Lhankor Mhy Temple' whereas if it were the Nochet Temple referred to, he would have called it that IMO. Also Dagobard's Collection mentions a Nochet Lhankor Mhy Temple in 1213 (when the OOO was still alive). I think therefore the Stygian Temple was at the City of Black Glass hence its name.
>>>True. Neither mention of brutal oppression by the OOO, but the
>>>opposite. Of course Geolgin wrote propaganda (every contemporary
>>>historian aka chronist does), but was that pure propaganda?
>> For one who claimed that rule by trolls is benevolent and contained no
>> treachery, I certainly think so.
>Don't you think that the "and contained no treachery" line is a
>statement like "Arkat becoming a troll was not treason, but necessary",
>meant to counter meaningless accusations that Arkat was a traitor to the
>Orlanthi cause?
Nope. The statement is not written by him but is a statement by a later scholar about Geolgin's beliefs. Also by the time Geolgin lived, Arkat's Command had become defunct and so there was little need to defend Arkat then.
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