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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 3282159" data-attributes="member: 25619">Oh, and Zargon also sounds  a WHOLE lot like Cthulu, at least in the Gazateer.I assume that's intentional.  Cthulu being behind the Scarlet Brotherhood, and Wee Jas allowed the destruction of the Suloise Empire to hit at Cthulu's power before he could manifest in the PMP.  Yes, that's cool.But in days of yore, I decided the force behind the fall of the Suloise Empire into the Sea of Dust was Sauron -- that the Suloise emperor was one of the nine kings of men suckered into becoming a Nazgul for Sauron.The reason I went with that backstory is geography -- the mountain-bounded borders of the the Sea of Dust are shaped like this: ]The boundaries of Nurn, the land at the back end of Mordor are shaped like this: [North of both is an endless prairie of vaguely Mongol like peoples.So, I decided Nurn + the Suloise Empire was the same big place, shaped like this:[]And the Wainriders and Baklunish are the same people . . . the difference is that the western ones (in Middle Earth) were also corrupted by Sauron, whereas the eastern ones (in Greyhawk) listened to Al-Akbar and mostly stayed true to goodness, except for the demon worshippers in Ull and the Tiger Nomads who are under the sway of their neighbor, The Old One, who is son of ancient Witch Queen (not at all under Sauron's influence, ahem) and an supernatural entity (yes, it's just some random demon named Graz'zt, nothing to look at, don't be alarmed).Back story is fun.   <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /></blockquote>

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