Re: Another go at mythic "chronology"

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_f6iq0QCiaTJowSiM34OHvkdjBsIi4DM4QW04zcKhhR3m00yQxbg05atu_6gd1lFSrq_>
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 20:47:14 +1300


On 11/9/2010 8:22 AM, boztakang wrote:
> The Largest Queendom of Trolls on the Surface was on the spike. They
> fought several Great battles against chaos defending it, only to have
> the devil sneak past and destroy it from within. Hundreds of Thousands
> of Uz died in that disaster, and I imagine there are many living clans
> with access to ancestors who remember it.

And herein lies a big problem. If it was destroyed by chaos then how did its inhabitants produce descendants to survive the cataclysm? It's not like Genert's Garden being turned to waste but the whole territory supposedly vanished into nothing.

Even worse is that the evidence for this Queendom comes not from the Uz but a map in a document written by an Orlanthi sage. We don't have a statement from the Uz about the great and glorious queendom that lay on the Spike, nor are we actually given its name. We have Dagori Inkarth, Halikiv, and other places but are given the curiously anodyne "Great Uz Queendon".

My interpretation is that the land described as the Spike in Uz Lore and named as Soruvela or the Kovano Jungle in Revealed Mythologies is actually Fonrit, which is otherwise curiously absent in God Learner maps. Elves lived in that land in historical times (before Garangordos massacred them) and makes Moorgarki's invasion more plausible. Teleos is perhaps another possibility as it has also been described as the centre of the world.

So did the Spike physically exist? My belief is it did in the Green Age. When the gloranthans became aware of their differences, the one Spike had become the many Spikes (Citadel/Kerofin, Bandaku, Imadalash, the Pool of Serenity, Thakarn etc). A magical unity was still available but was destroyed during the Gods War.

--PEter Metcalfe            

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