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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 4429877" data-attributes="member: 20323">The infertility was the yakmen's plan right? The Brotherhood of Flame is the only one i recall, but their motives seemed undefined.Did the Ghul Lords have an objective besides conquest & cannibalism?I recall the tension between tribes wanting (or being compelled) to civilize vs. those rejecting the lure of city-life (and possibly taking up arms). I imagine this would be an important theme in AQ4E, perhaps included themes of forced relocation of tribes.Was there a specific big theme around this? I can't recall.That was the theme behind Ruined Kingdoms, right? What were the geomancers after?While I always felt there was great potential for this, I never saw anything about it in the products. I think a Persian-inspired region and an India-inspired region would be great additions. What was Akota modeled on again?Do you mean something else besides Hiyal's competition with Huzuz?It was always bizarre to me that Huzuz was both political and religious center of Zakhara. Both decadent and a pilgrimage site. Weird.Hmm. Your choking coast idea could be the formative event of the young cities - by surviving together a new sense of cohesive identity emerges.Perhaps they plan to secede or challenge the throne of the Grand Caliph?If a foreign power were to invade, this would be the place to start, as the northern cities were fractitious. Maybe it is here, away from the eyes of heartland, that the nomad civilizing program is tested for viability throughout the caliphate?I always pictured a common man's prophet rising from the region espousing a liberation theology and attempting to coerce the leaders into separating from the Grand Caliphate. Perhaps it was the prophet (and/or allies?) who summoned the drought upon the Pearl Cities?Whoa. Dragon?</blockquote>

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