Current thought: The easternmost town as a Georgio-Caucasia type locale. To the Southwest, the Scythian style culture which is adapting to rapid desertification.
So a thing about the Sahara is that it didn't exist 5,500 years ago. It was largely copses of trees in grasslands. But desertification began around that time. Around 3,500bc the desertification -rapidly- increased and the Sahara exploded across Northern Africa. I'm thinking this setting is around the same sort of situation. Il'sha-ah used to be a river-city in a Savannah among a variety of other communities stretching all the way to Imba.
But the Desertification is one of the Curses, or so it is thought. And over a few generations it expanded, rapidly, across the world, swallowing villages and rivers, lakes, and forests. Somewhere in the sands is the petrified forest, still sticking up out of the sand dunes.
So the Scythian Styled People may have hung out in the Musarra-Achelb savannahs and mostly retreated northeast as the desert spread, though some would of course become itinerant nomads of the new desert with camels and the like. And in the Northeast... Forest Curse. The place that used to be wide plains became thick forest to make it suck even harder for those Horse-Riding-people...
Perhaps the Beast's curse...
So a thing about the Sahara is that it didn't exist 5,500 years ago. It was largely copses of trees in grasslands. But desertification began around that time. Around 3,500bc the desertification -rapidly- increased and the Sahara exploded across Northern Africa. I'm thinking this setting is around the same sort of situation. Il'sha-ah used to be a river-city in a Savannah among a variety of other communities stretching all the way to Imba.
But the Desertification is one of the Curses, or so it is thought. And over a few generations it expanded, rapidly, across the world, swallowing villages and rivers, lakes, and forests. Somewhere in the sands is the petrified forest, still sticking up out of the sand dunes.
So the Scythian Styled People may have hung out in the Musarra-Achelb savannahs and mostly retreated northeast as the desert spread, though some would of course become itinerant nomads of the new desert with camels and the like. And in the Northeast... Forest Curse. The place that used to be wide plains became thick forest to make it suck even harder for those Horse-Riding-people...
Perhaps the Beast's curse...
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