thomas.berubeg
Wandering the World
So! When we starting?
I'm not confused at all and know very well that the gods are not dragons. My gripe about cliché dragon gods is solely in applying divinity (elves seeing Tyrath as an incarnation of Falladan) to the dragon in question, not in their generic conception of the deific archetype. Also the cultural content of the elves is not my concern, purely the naming schema which is obscenely overdone in varying iterations (moriquendi/calaquendi: Night elves/High elves, and so on and so forth ad infinitum) irrespective of what the described peoples are actually like (Moriquendi aren't evil for example, neither are Night Elves from the warcraft thing).
Beyond these minor gripes I have little problem with your narrative proposition.
EDIT: @Golden1Knight, I am going to say at least 500 years. For purposes of the story and because we are so early along in the history of the world, you can assume Eledaen and other important figures are still alive if for some reason they have not been killed in the intervening period.
While I don't think Tyrath would stop anyone from worshiping him as a god, his only personal claim is to being the son of Njos - of the divine, but not necessarily divine. Some claim that the Empire's attempt to conquer the earth (the Body of Njos) was part of a ritual to resurrect the god, but what that would actually mean in practice is kind of vague.
Though some might claim him to be an avatar or incarnation of Njos or Falladan himself...the theology is probably quite contested.
I think, Golden, that the remnants of my people are going to migrate towards the large lake. Maybe placing your guys near the headwaters of the great river with 3 branches, so they can be within pursuing distance of my people around the lake, would be a good place to begin.
question: Are we supposed to assume we're in the fantasy equivalent of the Neolithic/Bronze age? Cause that's what I've generally done.
Maybe Medieval Age?
question: Are we supposed to assume we're in the fantasy equivalent of the Neolithic/Bronze age? Cause that's what I've generally done.