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[Ta`lia of the Seven Jewels]

As Lysarian didn't allow me to work on his achievements I thought I have a look at the third of the great Santhrans which we called the architecture king.

King III (Architecture King) Sanaerrin

- Lots of architectural changes in the city, monuments were built, the palace was expanded
- The Great Santhalan Library is founded, collecting all kinds of scrolls from the whole kingdom
- Sorain (the Voice) was introduced to communicate affairs between the clerics and the government

TIME OF INTERREGNUM (547-610)

547 - Destruction Santhala
Destroyed by the Móh'hái. Sacrifice of the last Axhái. Death of the King, most of the council as well, leaving a vacuum of power. A period without kings ensues.

I looked up what I could find about the Móh'hái to see, if I could link the end of the golden age and maybe the death of that King to the móh'hái and found some things that are a bit unclear.

Daltelár is obviously the last Axhái , who finds her death (sacrifice)

http://www.santharia.com/people/the_four.htm
That entry tells, that she is already dead... but well, could be an error of the author. ?

I found another entry of Wren also (I think, can't find it now), which says, that she has left Sarvonia to travel over the sea... or that we do not know about her whereabout.

That móh'hái dies, because she kills herself, I assume. (As Axhái/moh'hai are bound together. )

Do we know the name of that móh'hái or should we leave the whole affair a bit more mysterious? Or maybe somebody else claims the victory?

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Santhala:
History table says, that

THE AGE OF THE BLOOD
(YEARS 822 B.S. - 50 B.S.)
776 b.S.    Construction of the Town of Quia'antá
The building of the town of Quia'antá on the site of a smaller town along the river banks of the Thaehelvil River commences.

Wren writes in
http://www.santharia.com/library_old/stories/last_of_the_axhai_1.htm:

He [the guardian]is one only of five people in the city privy to the knowledge that Santhala was constructed to hide the prison of the Móh’hái. The town was constructed by Saban Blackcloak to house the dark mages, loyal to himself, that held the Móh’hái enchained deep down in the bowels of the earth. At first it does not seem like an obvious choice for a hiding place, right in the middle of a populated country, but think about it! The creation of Santhala was in fact the ideal hiding place for the Móh’hái. The Móh’rónn, posing as the true saviour of the darkfriends was embarrassed when the Móh’hái, close in thought to Coór himself, would not do his bidding. The Rimmerins Ring was local to Alvang, it was secluded, he did not need his mighty army to take the creature there. And once imprisoned far below the mountains, the darkfriends did not ever question, nor wonder at the Móh’hái’s disappearance, just as no one questioned mages living in a small isolated settlement. All Caelereth knows that mages are curious types at the best of times! And these mages were the first of... the Guardians.

Soon though, the town began to flourish of its own accord. The land was good and productive, the Yellow river was a life giving vein that allowed easy transport, and the city was the ultimate in defensive sites, enclosed in the Rimmerins Ring.

Then, Saban went down the volcano Hèckra, and left Caelereth forever. Worried about what the Móh’hái would do to its tormentors and trappers, and without Saban to protect them, the mages kept it imprisoned out of fear, never breathing a word of its existence to anyone outside their circle. And so the irony came to be that the mages who once had worked for Saban, gradually became the protectors of the kingdom that grew out of his defeat, an irony that would not have been lost on the Móh’rónn, I am sure.

Thus the capital of the New Santharian Kingdom, Santhala, the symbol of freedom, justice and unity under the great King Santhros was built on what the Móh’rónn himself had created. Santhala was built on a secret and a lie.

--->  Saban Blackcloak (210 b.S.-approx. 200 a.S.)

Should we change that slightly? Saba used Quia'antá, founded a small comunity of not Ximaxian (dark) mages, who finally melted in the society of the little town, but the guardians worked in secret?

next:

Wren dated the events to 299a.S.

The year is 299 after the rise of Santhros. Peace and stability seems to be part of the daily regime. Southern Sarvonia’s bitter past seems to be well behind them.

And, so we must make a beginning in a place that would seem best to make a start: some fifty years before the events of the introductory passage. It is the latter half of the reign of King Agyslam. He himself is now some 48 years of age and has reigned for nearly 30 years. We find ourselves in the streets of Santhala, the very bastion of life in Santharia. Home of the King, the Royal Court, many scholars and academics and to a largest and most diverse population probably in the whole of Caelereth; and today is market day.

I'm not sure, where to the story should head, why Cariála was important. When the outbreak of the moh'hái should happen. Chapter I happended 50 years before Cariála.

I hope it is possible to change the date to 547a.S. To adapt the story a little bit. (Or just to leave inconsistencies) Agyslam could be the father/grandfather of the architecture king (Santhran Sanaerrin The Magnificent???)


History is confusing!  

[Shabakuk Zeborius Anfang]

Oh dear.

I have been a member of this site for four years, but I don't understand Talia's post. What is a Móh'hái?

I found a reference to the Móh'hái here (with different spelling, by the way - no apostrophe, and no accent on the 'a'), but I'm still not sure who they are.

[Ta`lia of the Seven Jewels]

I had problems to find something about the móh'hái also, only over Axhai did I finally succeed  

The Axhái are a kind of superelves which Ava dreamt in the beginning, even more than the lightelves of the Thaelon, I think. (That means closer to the heart of Ava). 8 of the vanished early, four remained.

The móh'hái are their dark counterpart, but not much is known/written about them. What is 'fact' is, that to each Axhái a moh'hai was linked, so when the Axhái died, the moh'hai died also, or vice versa. --> Vai'linai died (during childbirth?) because her dark counterpart died.

There could be more info about the moh'hai in the cosmological entries about the beginning of the world, which I did not have the time to check. The problem was, that the searchfunction was not very helpful.

[Shabakuk Zeborius Anfang]

Aha! Thanks for explaining.

I am glad that you and others are interested in writing about elves and their history, so that I don't have to. 

[Ta`lia of the Seven Jewels]

 

...interested in writing about elves and their history..

no, no, only if I can't avoid it! 

[Artimidor Federkiel]

Well, the whole Móh'hái thing was something Wren dreamed up. And things get difficult if developers disappear who worked on some major concepts. Initially there were only the Axhai, which was a simple term for "elder elves". Wren made them to actual teachers of the races. Based on the concept that everything in Caelereth has its counterpart, the idea was born that there are dark elders as well, who set out to do the chaotic bidding of Coór. And that there was a link between them.

Note: There's a reference to the Móh'hái with another spelling on site, the "Mohai". If you search that you'll find at least one essential information: that the Móh'hái are most likely the Demon Lords, even though their number is specified in the Demon Lords overview with four (this has most likely to do with the fact that there are four elements).

We have only rudimentary information, which I summarize below.

12 Axhai, the elder elves (teachers)
4 Axhai remained, the Four (the last of the Axhai)
- Saol'lian (returned to light)
- Ioawlen (returned to light)
- Daltelár (became mortal)
- Vai'linai (became mortal)

12 (?) Móh'hái, the dark elder elves (destructors)
- Gelgath, Demon Lord of Ice (Water representative)
- Tsalokath, Demon Lord of Wrath (Wind representative)
- Khalkarot, Demon Lord of Shadow (elemental connection not clearly specified)
- [unknown fourth elemental Demon Lord)
- Avásh'aelía, the Bone Queen (?)

It's intentional of course that the information is fragmented, because that's how myth works. Nobody knows for sure. That's especially true of the Móh'hái, but there's another suggestion on site that suggests that Avásh'aelía was one of them.

Anyway, there's lots that needs to be done in the whole affair to make things clearer. Maybe that's one of the main tasks after I've finished the Shoals preparation I should pick for this year - to revise or add major entries, e.g. starting from Avá, Coór down to the Axhái and Móh'hái, the Four, adjust entries like Saban etc. They are all not according to our new templates anyway. And right now even in the Saban entry there's no mention of him trapping a Móh'hái under the location of today's New-Santhala etc.

Wren's started story about the Last of the Axhái has many inconsistencies, so feel free to move the dates around. But yes, the Móh'hái should die because she eventually sacrifices herself. The Móh'hái is freed by a traitor or something and then Daltelár kills herself and the Móh'hái with her. For the Demon Lords I intend to have a special kind of existence - they are only summoned, so live in some sort of elemental limbo, so they aren't mortal to be killed off in the same way as Daltelár does with the Móh'hái. In other words: That Móh'hái trapped down there shouldn't be a Demon Lord, but rather a mortal being of extremely high powers, most likely an elf like Avásh'aelía.

[Ta`lia of the Seven Jewels]

Thanks,

agree with everthing  

Every time I look at the Demon Lords I get tempted to do one, but they have to wait, I fear.

I don't think I need to mention a lot about the end of the last Santhran, that can be added later. I thought I will make it a bit vague, if somebody wants to write an entry about the Axhai/Mohai and reveal more details, it can be changed always later.

Edit:
What is under Demon Lords said (Categorisation) is not very conclusiv, there is a lot to fix.

[Artimidor Federkiel]

Yep, it's all a bit messy. So it needs to be revised from top to bottom, starting with Coór, his various reincarnations etc. One can't just fix a part... 

[Shabakuk Zeborius Anfang]

Thanks for clarifying lots of things for me, Arti, even though what the clarity allows me to see is that a lot is unclear, if that makes sense. Clear as mud, as they say. 

What was your original intention, Talia? Am I correct in saying that you want to write an entry on a king who ruled in the 6th century, and that you hit a snag by discovering that this would involve clarifying the role of the Móh'hái during that time (as well as clarifying other things)?

[Ta`lia of the Seven Jewels]

No, Shaba, I only want to finish this part of history we called 'The Golden Age of Kings', therefore I don't need to know (as the writer of the history) all things exactly. Later revelations can always be added. As developer I need to have some things pinned down though.

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