Re: There is only one God, et al

From: Jeff <richaje_at_WD_mcTFWNZdpsoo9yO2hMrVQbH-Ok4607y-6s-5gD_tLRF9G5ZhpCFV4jBTWJpOL72De>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:50:50 -0000

> >BTW, I am not convinced that these events are all in the sequence
> >presented on page 9. Frex, I've got some maps from Greg that are
> >being used in the Guide that show the Nida conquest in the Mid-Storm
> >Age and roughly in the same cycle of myths that have the
> >Vingkotlings dominating southern and south western Genertela.
>
> I took those events to be in the Darkkness Age/Fifth Action,
> myself, much later.
> In either case, much too late for the Kachasti to be the Vingkotlings.

As I said, these events don't line up perfectly. I'll use the Orlanthi terminology since that provides the most categories. Nida appears to have erupted in the mid or late Storm Age. The Kachasti turn to Worlath in the mid to late Storm Age as well. The Vingkotling wars against the Mostali also occur in the mid to late Storm Age (which sadly enough we never completed the myth for, hence its absence from Heortling Mythology).

> Kachasti survivors turning to Worlath makes perfect sense,
> though I also assumed those events too place after the Vinkotlings
> were well established. I guess this makes them the Dawn Age
> inhabitants of Ralios?

It makes them Ralian. I do not believe they became Vingkotlings. This is an important point - not all or even most people who followed Orlanth in the Gods War were Vingkotlings (even if they acknowledged Vingkot and his family as High Kings).

> It is not mutually exclusive with the Kachasti having arrived
> in Genertela far earlier, though. The Kachasti sent their first
> expeditions to Genertela in the very early Fourth Action/Storm Age,
> probably long before the conflict with the Vadeli. The Kachasti meet
> people from another culture who are already there, though.

Yes. Probably actually in the late Golden Age.

Jeff