It's been suggested (by Madness, IIRC) that the Xiuhianni stayed east of the Kayarsus because agents of the Inchoroi (masquerading as gods) told them to.
It has further been suggested that they might have been instructed to limit their population. Basically just speculation, of course, but... *shrug* ;)
Except I think it was one of the Inchoroi, not agents of (if you were denoting, say Nonmen or something).Yeah, I phrased that post very badly. 'Agents' was referring to the 'prophets' the Inchoroi (presumably) communicated with directly. The bit in parentheses was meant to refer only to the Inchies themselves, not the said 'agents'/'prophets'. Inchie reveals itself to some loony, declares him a 'prophet' and gets him to pass on the 'Divine Mandate' to the rest of his Tribe, sort of thing?
Inchie reveals itself to some loony, declares him a 'prophet' and gets him to pass on the 'Divine Mandate' to the rest of his Tribe, sort of thing?
Unless your suggestion is that the Inchoroi actually appeared to the Tribe as a whole rather than working through individual 'prophets'? But that seems to be against their MO as indicated by the Angeshrael encounter.
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Q: Being as meticulous as you are, have you ever drawn a "world map" of the areas that are outside the ones already depicted?
A: I’m not sure ‘meticulous’ is a word that I have any right to. Any rigour in my worldbuilding is simply the product of having lived with (and in) Earwa for so long. I’ve actually resisted mapping out the entire globe over the years. Ideas for alternate civilizations seem to crop up like mushrooms in my imagination, and the temptation is to make good on them by giving them a ‘place.’
But way back, I wrote this paper on the difference between ancient and modern roads (in the context of a philosopher named Levinas). The signature conceptual difference, I argued, was the way modern roads enclose the globe, the way civilization, in a sense, never runs out for us the way it did for the ancients. At the time I decided the best way to remain true to the ancient headspace I was trying to conjure was to make sure all the roads in Earwa run out, to make the terra incognita in my world absolute.
But this isn’t to say that surprises haven’t been painted across the horizon.
Lol.
But why didn't the Xiuhanni come along? And there aren't ever mentioned a sixth or seventh tribe :P.
the 1 tribe by the Inchoroi.
Maybe the the 4 tribes where tutored by the nonmen, and the 1 tribe by the Inchoroi. Maybe they are now a super race of post-humans, genetically enhanced and modified, wielding the tekne like their own magic.
A sadness welled through the old Wizard as he walked and peered, a mourning that possessed the airy clutch of premonition. There was poetry in loss and ruin, a wisdom that even children and idiots understood. For a time he suffered the eerie sense that he walked one of the great capitals of the Three Seas, that these were the ruins of Momemn, Carythusal, or Invishi, and they were the Last Men, thirteen instead of the one hundred and forty-four thousand of legend, and that no matter how far they travelled, how many horizons they outran, all they would find was soot and broken stone.
So much like the Bene Geserit(click to show/hide)
Well, this straight up happened with the Inchoroi during the Cuno-Inchoroi wars, MG.
At least one of the Inchoroi pretended to appear as a God to the Five Tribes of Eanna before the Breaking of the Gates.