as Peter pointed to TI, he is also worshipped in Ralios and elsewhere (more than 10 SDT scattered in Genertela, according to Cults of Prax). From Ralios came also the alakoring tribes who mixed up with the Heortlings and the southern Pelorians.
> Dome Temples fell with
> the EWF and the remaining worshippers of Yelmalio
> were slain during the
> Dragonkill War. As far as i can tell, the Q&A about
> Yelmalio is pretty
> silent about any third age Brightness of Yelm.
Yelmalio (under another name) rose during the first age, when Loko and Palangio battled Gore and Gash. Then Palangio invaded Kethaela and not just Kerofinela and probably Maniria and Ralios too (I don't rem exactly).
Probably many remnants of Yelmalio proto-cults were present in the second-age Genertela Barbarian belt cultures (after Arkat destroyed *nearly* all of Palangio and Loko empire), not just in southern Peloria.
> My question is: how did the current and widespread
> worship of Yelmalio
> come about?
> Did worship of Yelmalio survive the Dragonkill
> outside Balazar to grow
> again? Did the worship of Balazar Yelmalio spread to
> all of southern
> Peloria?
IMO, the opposite: from Peloria (after Alakoring and Pelorian remnants of ancient Yelmalio cults merged and thrived), the worship of Yelmalio went to Balazar with Balazar himself.
> Was there another Brightness of Yelm to fill
> Yelmalio's sandals after the
> Dragonkill?
I don't think it necessary, since Dragons did not kill Yelmalio himself but merely the most part of his human worshippers. Maybe Aldryami also worshipped him and weren't entangled in the Dragonkill. Also the Dragons didn't destroy the Temples outside of Kerofinela, just like in Prax: lot of opportunity for relic hunters and heroquesters to rebuild Yelmalio cult anywhere they want.
> I ask this because IMG the lunars in Far Point
> actively enccourage Elmali
> (and other rebels too) to convert to worship
> empire-approved Brightness of
> Yelm instead of Elmal. I want to know if this
> process started first after
> Monrogh's revelation or if that merely added fuel to
> a pre-existing
> conversion process.
IMO, Pelorians which brought first Elmal (GodsAge) to the Orlanthi and then proto-Yelmalio (Dawn-Empire Age) now are merely keeping on their ancient practices of imposing sun-worshipping on barbarians (in their eyes, they strive to impose order on disorder and violence, after all).
My two eurocents on this hot problem...
Gian
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