From: Joerg Baumgartner (joe@sartar.toppoint.de)
Date: Tue 06 Sep 1994 - 11:23:02 EEST
Peter Metcalfe, the Blue Wizard, in X-RQ-ID: 6023
> What really puzzles me is that the Hyalorings are a seperate tribe from the
> Jenarong Horsefolk. I can understand that the Hyalorings were the closest to
> the first council and that their myths of the origin of horses would be taken
> as gospel.
> The Dara happan myth is entirely different, given that the Jenarong called the
> Warlords Gamatae suggests that they were descended from the Nivorahings
> (Gamatae <-- Gamaratae). Also Jenerong gets the Sandals of Protection from
> Nivorah which suggests that the Dara happans are correct.
DHBE answers this. Map 1 describes the Dawn Age population of Peloria, and has the area of Saird circled in and the note "? Theoretical Home" inside. Saird was the land of Nivorah, and the logical origin of the Hyalorings.
The Hirenmador nation is shown to live in Henjari, Vonlath and southern Kostaddi, the current Hyalorings sit in Darjiin and Doblia, a tribe called Veshtargos (described as cannibals in Vuranostrum's aka Leaps over Walls' reign) occupies Esvuthil, and a nation called Lenshis occupies Dikoria and the Darsen Hills. There is a nation called Lendarshis around Lake Oronin, and one called Kashis in the lower Arcos valley. Towards the Redlands in the upper Arcos valley dwells a nation called Ungariong, and on that region of the Arcos "Starlight Ancestors" are marked - Vettebbe?
The Redlands and Jarasan seem to be quite empty - similar to the Wastes before the Battle of Necklace Horse.
> In many ways this begins to parallel all the stories of the creation of man I
> have seen. The Galanin are descended from Lofak, the Jenarong are from Dara
> Happa whereas the Hyalorings are from Genert's wasted land. Are there any
> other sources of horse that we don't know about?
The Hyalorings, Hirenmador and other Pentan tribes all originated in Peloria, it seems. Maps of Dawn Age Genertela show Genert's Garden (Pent and the Wastelands) as the Chaos Wastes, and generally uninhabited. That neither part was that uninhabitable was proven later, first after Argentium Thri'ile.
I wonder when and how the Kralori features entered the horse tribes of Pent. After Argentium Thri'ile they had plenty of wives, so no raiding for them or slaves was necessary. A few generations later this could have changed, and they could have raided Ignorance.
However, there could have been a mongol-like nation of horse nomads west of the Yankley Bore which entered the politics of the Dara Happa descended horse nomads and mingled with them. Their horses would have been of another myth of origin.
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-- Joerg Baumgartner joe@sartar.toppoint.de
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