migration

[Steven McRownt]

Look at the bible (Exodus): the people where norisched and led by god, but they had to wander around and hunger nonetheless.
Why do gods allow their people to get hungry or get defeated by another people?

Yes Kolvar, i know the story. But it is slighty different from the normal way to manage a fantasy setting. I agree with you that the starting point must be a no-magic one, but we can't take the bible as an example. Perhaps celts myths or egyptian ones could help us better, even if i don't find any migration for their population like the one the jews had to make from egypt to palestine... after all -as you sayd correctly- that should rise too many questions, and we want so solve other ones...!

Steven McRownt

 

[kolvar]

The exodus was just a good example for a bit of "clerical magic". I always have the german migrations in mind, from the cimber and teutons (getting bigger and bigger till they split) to goths (very early to the late ones), franks (very powerful), langobards, burgundians, angle, saxons (only part of), jutes, vandals (interesting, because ending up in africa).
I do not know, how far the celtic migration was a full scale migration or more some kind of conquering (the upper class in gaul (about 20% as far as I know) where celts, the rest not).
Maybe the migration of the britons to britany, although that was rather short.