I'd agree that Greg got it wrong about the Yelmalio cult only being 60 years old, but I'm inclined to rationalize this as one of those half-true depends-on-your-point-of-view things.
In my game, the Yelmalio cult was only established 60 years ago IN SARTAR.
The cult was much older but had almost gone extinct and was mostly
forgotten. It hung on in marginal areas like Balazar and the Zola Fel
valley.
Then Monrogh*, an Elmali from Sartar, visits Zola Fel and other places, has
an inspiration, reforms the Zola Fel Yelmalions, and brings the reformed
cult back to Sartar. The reformations in Zola Fel were presented as
"returning to the pure ways of our ancestors", like most reformations are.
Since then, Yelmalion missionaries have gone out to the Elmali and surviving
Yelmalio enclaves preaching the reformed faith. This is how the cult has
achieved its current apparent uniformity.
This way Sun County in the Zola Fel can legitimately claim to have been worshipping Yelmalio for over 800 years, while the cult is only 60 years old.
*Monrogh of Sartar was the second Monrogh to found the Yelmalio cult, he lost his name during his questing and was later renamed in honour of the mythic first Monrogh who was the founder remembered by the Zola Fel Yelmalions.
For decades now, the Lunars have been promoting the growth of the Yelmalio cult in Orlanthi lands from behind the scenes. They support Yelmalion chieftains and supply money to Yelmalio temples. They quietly support scholars who go looking for traces of "lost, ancient Yelmalio traditions" in these regions. They do this to encourage disunity in the Orlanthi lands. This has helped to spread the cult more rapidly than one would have expected.
This excuse successfully plugs the holes in my campaign, so I'm sticking to it.
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