Old Did You Know Pages

Posted 7 Oct 2015

• Did you know that the Temple of Amrulon Sun God in Amyrn is one of the largest houses dedicated to the Isxinthion Sun God, built on an ancient Kemerite site dating back over seven millennia ago?

• Did you know that the Aitiaobh were a tribe of Common Giants who were anciently driven into the Disdrire Forest by the Neptultchi?

• Did you know that the doctrine of reincarnation is rejected by the Arathracian Religion, but accepted by the Incarnandist Religion?

• Did you know that Vädu was an early shamanic god of Thrace during the migratory period of the Gwenyan Tribes?

• Did you know that Orkybanthius of Zander, a cosmologer of the fourth century developed a theory to explain and account for the existence of giants?

• Did you know that Griffain Vedachier of Magetown was a Throvian explorer, natural philosopher, and writer of the 27th century who eventually succumbed to the ill effects of the Throe Wastes?

• Did you know that the mythical Asurrhá are said to be the truly rare offspring of the union of an Isxinthion god and an Elamahti?

• Did you know that Grascurg Excavation of the early 28th century provided important primary evidence for the Archmagian Period of Bryndyd which was during the reign of Bexaloth in the Middle Ages of Chaos?

• Did you know that the High Shadevan Tribes once inhabited all the lands east of the Jaggudorns and were supplanted by the immigration of the Gwenyan Tribes in the first millennium before Salmakhamer?

• Did you know that the ancient Incarnandist Basilicas were repurposed Yophenthean Basilicas during the Middle Ages of Chaos?

Up to 7 Oct 2015

• Did you know that the Jaggudorn Mountains are roughly the same elevation as the Himalayas but lie farther north and were the homeland of the ancient Sky Tribes?

• Did you know that Omandral Sorcerer King was born of a Medibgösk father and a Jerushablan mother, converted to the Imzaha religion, and established the short-lived Omandraline Empire of Sky?

• Did you know that the Neptultchi Language is not related to any Gwenyan Language or indeed to any known language other than its child languages, Tuadbe and Xsyte?

• Did you know that the Durrhaunvian Triad is a group of three sister goddesses, Dáunau, Devahlia, and Dasironessa, traditionally worshiped in the Durrhaunve Valley?

• Did you know that the word Thrake originally meant a person of Thracian ancestry but came to be a term of disparagement for foreign rulers?

• Did you know that the principle officers and organs of the government of the Republic of Johaulia are the Meddix, the Cobalt College, and the Senate?

• Did you know that the mythical Throne of Storms was said to have been borne by six djinn to carry Selukyal, King of ancient Jerushabla?

• Did you know that the Drakeling is a domesticated dragon ridden by Dragon Knights in southern Pytharnia for possibly as much as seven thousand years?

• Did you know that Erechórebese Sunfather Orry II promoted and sponsored the Congress of Bryndyd in 2587 to resolve lingering issues of treaty and policy in the years after the Great Sky War and the Fifth Geddamin War?

• Did you know that the ancient Jairutthalese Empire of Kalama predated the City-State Period of Kalama and thus is generally considered mythical?