: There's a critter in the Antero comic that looks a lot
: like a Skrael, although I think the impression from
: that panel in the comic was meant to imply that all
: the represented races were "old" ones that
: came into conflict with the Trow and were beaten to a
: bloody pulp.
: Gothmog - Skrael pop up a few times, have a look around
: for them, but they're basically a light-aligned race
: that look something like a naga (snakelike, having a
: snakish head, scaled arms, and a tail instead of
: legs). Yer-Ks doesn't sound particularly Skrael-ish to
: me, but since we know so little about them it's bound
: to be open to interpretation. The fact that the
: "kingdom" is outlined on the map suggests to
: me that its boundaries are, and were, well established
: before its sinking. If Yer-Ks is simply an underwater
: kingdom, why would it be the only territory to have
: its boundaries clearly defined on the map?
Actually, I was always under the impression that that wasn't really a boundary, more like, I don't know, some high ridges or something along the edges of the continent (there is, after all, a mountain range along the northern edge of the continent that mysteriously ends just east of the drowned kingdom...); that and the fact that in all the original (pre-M3) maps, that border was made up of lots of little islands...
: Personally I think the Northern regions of the Province
: are fairly conplex and well-populated, and suggest at
: least five distinct groups inhabiting them; the
: Skrael, the Provincial settlers, the zerks, whoever
: the Yer-Ks are, and the fir'bolg, not to mention any
: seafaring races, Leixian pirates, Bre'unor, etc. With
: so many conflicting peoples, it seems easy to presume
: that conflicts would lead to such a cataclysmic event
: as the sinking of Yer-Ks, much the same as the
: Callieach/Trow conflict.
It certainly is possible that the drowned kingdom was actually drowned... After all, one of the cities of the Trow (Si'anwon, or however it's spelled) was alsosunken; after all, the Trow obviously don't live underwater...
dm.
