> 1) I always thought Griffon Island’s (GI) Halcon Von Enkorf
> (sp?) was a good example of a powerfull Vadeli or God Learner
> Sorceror or even a Zzabur for that matter.
(Ignoring the rules which hurt my eyes) He isn't a Vadeli - he's far too... conventional in his powerseeking. Jaded by too much TV, I prefer someone like Ben Linus or the Man in Black to be the prime evildoer on the Island.
> 3) Umathela. As I understand it was a Juestelan colony that
> built large cities up and down its coast after clearing away the
> forests a reasonable distance inland.
Jrusteli is right but not in the sense that you think (ie God Learners). The first Jrusteli humans were the Olodo who settled southern Jrustela as long ago as the Dawn Age. When the Seshnegi migrants there was fighting and some Olodo fled south to Umathela.
> After this started they
> imported a significant number of Slonton/Manerian/Kathelan Orlanthi.
> Why did they do this?
I would place the Orlanthi from all over such as Ralios, Fronela and Maniria. They may have simply been clearing the local lands and found that shipping the crude savages to distant wop-wops would be a good way of civilizing them (ie the Australian solution) to God Learner norms.
> Is
> there any Malkioni in the Orlanthi – a la Trader Princes?
Apart from the Malkioni city states on the coast, there are a few Malkioni places inland - one being Emanus, former home of the Silent Militant.
> The next
> real mention I believe is that Harrek creates a kingdom in Umathela –
> he must like Orlanthi? So what happened in the interim?
Harrek's kingdom is in Laskal rather than Umathela. It doesn't stop him from making frequent visits to Umathela but the presumption that he likes Orlanthi I find a bit odd - he doesn't even like the Rathori and he was born one.
> Has the culture spontaneously created its own myths or do they just
> use of the existing ones any tribe in Sartar/Maneria/Kathela would
> use – just not the location linked ones like the LBQ?
IMO the Orlanthi are influenced by three mythologies, a) their transplanted Orlanthi ways mixed up and melded, b) the fragments of the imposed God Learner monomyth and c) the local storm gods that were on Pamaltela long before they were sent there (ie Baraku, Desero etc). In addition, they are also heavily influenced by external mythologies, such as the Aldryami and the Fonritans.
--Peter Metcalfe
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