I think I may have answered my own question.....

So the ancient Videssians who had succumbed to temptation were 
imprisoned somehow by their countrymen who had resisted it.... Though 
they in turn collapsed and disappeared due to civil war, leaving no 
trace of where the "possessed" ancients lay imprisoned?

Ibrahim


    The Legions of Spirit

Prelude

An Onagir Story

Long and long ago, when the gods of the farm-men were different, a 
different tribe of farm-men lived by the shore of the middle sea. These 
men were builders and stacked great piles of stone for their rulers and 
gods to live. Their obeah set great stones in patterns that they might 
control the song.

In their ignorance of the song, the farm-men obeah sought within the 
dreaming. They desired to stand outside the song that they might control 
it better. (Of course, to stand outside the song is to lose the song, 
but these farm-men obeah truly were that ignorant.) Within the Dreaming 
they sought, and so they found a tribe they thought would serve. These 
others had no bodies of their own, living only in the bodies of men. 
Such men gained great gifts, but lost reason and memory, for such was 
the food of these others. Some men fed the others on minds not their 
own, but all such eventually lost themselves to others. In time the 
builder-men woke their danger, but by that time the others had bred 
themselves to many hundreds.

The war between these others and the builder-men lasted many-many 
seasons. Many of their stone piles were torn down. Many of their stone 
patterns were scattered. Families were torn apart and met in battle.

In the end, the builder-men defeated the others. When the last of the 
others gathered, the builder-men struck against them and the others were 
prisoned until the builder-men recovered enough to slay them. Then, 
though, the builder-men turned against each other. Like a mammoth 
wounded to certain death but yet living, the battles between the others 
and the builder-men had slain the builder-men tribe. A few survivors 
fled into Onagir hands. Among us these survivors told their tale.

The descendants of those who fled the builder-men live among us today. 
The rest of the builder-men died and trees grew to cover their stones.

(http://www.phoenyx.net/twiki/bin/view/Celandra/Videssia)




Jason Heaps wrote:

>Hmm.  I remember vaguly reading something about this.  Hmm.  I will look into it and also email Keaton about this and see if he remembers.
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>  Jason Heaps
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>ibrahim  wrote:
>  Well, two decades ago in gametime, the late Osric Basiluddin ordered the 
>then Information Secretariat to research "mental sciences", though the 
>project was later abandoned under advice from the Eerith, who gave 
>Videssia as an example of why it should be abandoned.
>
>Ibrahim
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>Andrew Janssen wrote:
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>>ibrahim wrote:
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>>>Hang on, I know that already. Was a bit confused there I guess.
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>>>So Videssia was the one that had the terrible experiments in psionics or 
>>>something similiar, as well?
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>>I don't remember *that*, but maybe.
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>>Videssia seems to be well on its way to becoming the armpit of the 
>>MidSea--like Gary, Indiana, but without the air pollution.
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>>Andrew
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>>>Ibrahim
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>>>Jason Heaps wrote:
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>>>>It is still divided between the Warlords, the Empire of Videss and the Republic of Celoa. currently this year the Aranda river has flooded, flooding several districts in both cities, and some riots have broken out in the area. As to the Warlords responce to these events well we will see :)
>>>>
>>>>Jason Heaps
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>>>>ibrahim wrote:
>>>>Here's a general question.
>>>>
>>>>What is the current status of Videssia, population and 
>>>>society/government wise?
>>>>
>>>>Much has been said of the devastation it underwent in previous times, 
>>>>but now?
>>>>
>>>>Ibrahin
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