>From the story, it sounds as if the ancient Videssians were
experimenting with what modern Qaiyoreans would call Shadowspawn.

Andrew

--- ibrahim  wrote:

> 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.
> >   
> >  Jason Heaps
> >
> >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
> >
> >Andrew Janssen wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>ibrahim wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Hang on, I know that already. Was a bit confused there I guess.
> >>>
> >>>So Videssia was the one that had the terrible experiments in
> psionics or 
> >>>something similiar, as well?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>I don't remember *that*, but maybe.
> >>
> >>Videssia seems to be well on its way to becoming the armpit of the 
> >>MidSea--like Gary, Indiana, but without the air pollution.
> >>
> >>Andrew
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Ibrahim
> >>>
> >>>Jason Heaps wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>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
> >>>>
> >>>>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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