From: Nick Brooke (Nick_Brooke@compuserve.com)
Date: Sun 02 Aug 1998 - 11:31:56 EEST
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Peter writes:
> Syranthir's Ten Thousand marched from Loskalm to Carmania in
> the second age had tame lions in their ranks which implies that
> leonophobia was not a characteristic of the Loskalmi. Where
> these lions came from is not known to me.
Lions are big cats. Wolves are big dogs. Ergo, lion-people fought wolf
people in the Gbaji Wars, under Talor the Laughing Warrior. Talor afterwards
refounded Loskalm, and took his plucky allies with him. They were part of
the ultra-loyal forces of Syranthir, the Grand Old Duke of Jhor, and went
with him when he marched up the beautiful blue Janube to establish the
Carmanian nation in Peloria.
What kind of lion-people? Three kinds, originally, now blended in that
uniquely wonderful Arkati way. Some were descended from the First Age
Basmoli kingdoms of the West (what Joerg calls the Pendali). Some were
descended from the Seshnelan Knights who wiped them out, nailed their hides
(rampant gules) to their shields, and devoured their leonine powers and
attributes (think of Richard the Tigerhearted...). And some were Orlanthi
Cat People, Alynx and others, who joined the Crusade against Chaos to twat
their old foes at the Wolves' High Pass.
The Lion Warriors of Syranthir's army became the core of the Bashkars, the
It is, of course, possible that the Loskalmi now hate lions just as much as
Lion Guard of old Carmania. Some more may be on my web-page Carmanian
sources, cf. the URL below.
the Seshnegi do. After all, the Jrusteli were Seshnegi in origin, had no
reason to give Syranthir's forces or Arkat's allies a good press, and ruled
for hundreds of years in their oh-so-intrusive God Learner style...
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