> Everything is SO Sartar based I always
> assumed that the descriptions of
> traditional Orlanthi were Sartar, and
> that Heortland was different.
A useful mental model for the Sartarites is that they are radical conservatives. The majority (i.e. less than the Orlanthi "all") of Sartarites (*) migrated north from Heortland. A significant proportion of those did so to escape the religious and cultural changes being imposed upon them by the Pharoh - directly or via his proxy, the reborn Andrin. Of course, many were just interested in the potential wealth of an empty land.
Being pioneers in an empty land they had to make even more changes to their ways than were being imposed upon them in Heortland, but at least it was their choice. Under the influence of the conservatives, the immigrants started to create a new idealised mythology for themselves. One of the results of this is that there is often a mythological assumption that a clan and its ancestors "have always been here" and some tensions between that mythology and the history that they came from the south (Heortland) or from the northwest (Tarsh and before that Saird, Holay etc.).
Other Heortlings outside Sartar (and the Tarsh exiles) are far better at living together (much bigger cities, fewer feuds). But, IMO, the flexibility of interpretation of their mythology gives the Sartarites the boost that allows them to become the core and bulk of the leadership in the fight against the Lunar Empire.
regards,
Charles
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