It could be possible that Gorgers, or other demons existed in Fonrit at the Dawn and were a factor in slowing down human expansion.
> Admittedly, the Thinokans form only a minority in Fonrit. The vast majority in the Dawn Age would have been survivors of the Artmali downfall, possibly with a few remnants of the storm people (Vadrudi?) who were too slow to catch up with the migration into the Veldt before their destruction.
I imagine the invasions of beast herding people led by Baraku to be kin of Praxians - Storm Bull, Eiritha, High Llamas, Impala, Bison, Morocanth, rather than goat herders. In my view the "goat" herders of Kanen Dar and Tarahorn actually herd other creatures as per the "no cloven hooved animals" guide that Trotsky has for Anaxial's Roster (speckled condies, I believe). I still hold to my theory that Cathora is Eiritha in disguise who married Artmal and gave birth to the Lopers, before returning to Genert, and marrying Storm Bull.
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> The presence of goat herding in the Fonritian hinterland indicates that not all of those herd beasts were lost.
> Garangordos would have come to Fonrit in the wake of the Pithdaran migration. Fonrit was the only gap in the wall of forests in northern Pamaltela since Aldrya's Woe destroyed the Greenwood of that region, allowing unhindered overland contact with the veldt, so I have little doubt that the Pithdarans came through here.
This is a good point too. Pithdarans set off by the Sunstop, pass through Fonrit, some will get left behind in Laskal. I imagine they would leave from the Martino Sea rather than cross Fonrit to the Poysida straits, but perhaps they felt they should go north until they found the new Bad God. Perhaps some Pithdarans carried on by boat, while others thought they had found enough evidence of Bad Gods in Fonrit to try and do Justice right there.
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> Garangordos certainly did not have the well-being of his conquered subjects in mind, but that of his conquering people. To the natives, this may not have been much of a change, given their previous exposure to apdara and waertagi raiders.
Agreed. Garan was not in it to make life pleasant for Blues.
> Maybe Syranthir is the cultural founding hero we should use for comparison - thrown out of the homeland, making contact with a native deity of rather cruel history (as seen by the Pelandans) and spreading his homeland creed and companions as the top layer of society and culture.
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There are parallels but, at least for my game, I am not thinking of the band of adventurers as an exiled army, becoming a mercenary who takes over from his employers. I don't see Garangodos as leading an army into Fonrit. He goes there with a little band. He might raise a slave army later, to conquer some other part of it, but they would be native slaves.
> I'm currently seeing Ompalam as a Pamalt equivalent - the same deity in two different religions (although the Doraddi would probably say that he was Bolongo looking like Pamalt). Thus when the Doraddi speak about Pamalt doing such and such, the Fonritan myth is about Ompalam.
That makes sense, especially if we can have Ompalam as Pamalt gone wrong in some, but not all, ways.
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