>Vaguely, where do the Mallia worshippers come from?
From the same place as Gargathi bandits do - from social malcontents of the Orlanthi. Consider Muriah in the Borderlands - her parents were despised good-for-nothings who died because the other villagers refused to lift a finger to help them. Muriah turned to Malia in revenge (I don't accept Shadow on the Borderlands premise that her Parents were illuminates as it presents a contorted justification for being so).
>Specifically, the Orlanthi are a culture of Chaos-haters. During the good
>times, I can't see them letting a nest of Mallia worshippers live.
It isn't a nest of Malia worshippers. It's usually just one woman or so whom the stickpickers fear and everybody else ignores. Only when the times are bad, does hunting down Maliants become a worthwhile social occupation. If times are good, there's no disease and thus no need to blame Malia...
--Peter Metcalfe
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