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Mortal Races at the Dawn

Posted on June 10, 2023

Dawn Age Seshnegi sources divide the mortal races into several categories:

  • Malkioni. That includes all who originated in Brithos, regardless of whether they follow the old Malkioni ways or those of Hrestol.
  • Barbarians: This includes the Enerali, Entruli, Pendali, Pralori, and others. Often called Hykimi as they are all descended from that god.
  • Mostali: The Seshnegi were familiar with dwarves as the crafters of magical weapons.
  • Aldryami: The Seshnegi were familiar with the Aldryami as allies of Seshna Likita and of many barbarians.
  • Dehori: The Seshnegi viewed trolls and darkness elementals as the same people. They sometimes considered them krjalk.
  • Kolati: The Seshnegi viewed the Orlanthi of Dragon Pass and the air spirits as the same people.
  • Krjalk: This was a confusion of dragonewts, people with Chaos Gifts, broo, headhunters, and anything else strange and fearful. The word doesn’t really seem to show up much until the arrival of the Deceiver and his cult, but his armies include many krjalk and his cult has the ability to turn people into krjalk. There is even a Krjalk cult. The Seshnegi believe that the krjalk come from the lands of the Srvuali aka Peloria.

The Western accounts of Gbaji are pretty awful. Around the same time the Sun Stop happened and a terrible plague spread through Seshnela and Brithos. A new god could cure it though, and the cult of Nysalor was at first welcomed joyously, but those whom he came into close contact with were corrupted. Some had their mortal nature burnt out of them with the unholy fires of the underworld. Many were changed in appearance and thought. Those who refused the cult died of the plague.

In Tanisor the cult gained a greater foothold, managing to elevate one of their priests to become king by 385. In Telmoria the cult of Gbaji had taken over so strongly there was hardly a person in the land without Chaos blood in them. Gbaji’s krjalk followers aided the Gbaji cult among the city-states of Ralios and they exploited ancient feuds with the Seshnegi – threatening that land with both plague and war.

When the Seshnegi learned of Gbaji’s real nature, they asked for aid from the heavenly gods. What they got was Arkat.

Were the Dara Happans completely ignorant of Nysalor’s abuses in Ralios? In Dara Happa-Dorastor this was a time of great possibilities and spiritual liberation – mortals had created a god, and the limits of mortality were being overthrown. Exciting! Revolutionary!

But the wars of the Broken Council were brutal. Those who had tried to sabotage the God Experiment by leaving the Council – the trolls, the dragonewts, and the Heortlings – were subject to brutal reprisals. The trolls were cursed by Nysalor – and that curse was near genocidal. Saird and Dragon Pass were enslaved. Those children the Heortlings tried to turn to men were killed.

But of course, such reprisals were able to be justified in Dorasor and Dara Happa as being necessary if the possibilities of the Perfected One were to be realised.

Did the dragonewts suffer as badly as the trolls and Heortlings? Nysalor cursed them too but a True Dragon dispelled it. But the dragonewts were militarily defeated and forced to become mercenaries for the Broken Council.

Jeff Richard

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