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abandoning that of the hated Suel.
Other Flan tribes continued on and
founded other lands. The Flan of
Haradaragh found that their presence in
the Lortmils was left unchallenged by the
olves for a simple reason—the existence
of the euroz and jebli of the central peaks.
The humans had nearly a century of
relative peace in which to build their great
capital. It was around this time that other
Flan nations began forming including
Gyreff, Itar, Nursia, Ahlissa and others.
Although no written descriptions of the
city of Haradaragh have survived, there
are cryptic fragments of songs still sung
among those of Geoff, Sterich and the
County of Ulek who count themselves of
Flan descent. These tell of the spectacular
visions of sunrise in the high plateaus of
the mountains, the great wide boulevards
and plazas of the city, the many-stepped
pyramids devoted to the Sun-God, the
agricultural terraces of the slopes, the
labyrinthine walls protecting the city, and
the tremendous wealth brought from the
mines below. The more tragic lyrics sing of
the last days of the city, when the mines
boiled forth with rampaging humanoids
and undead horrors slaughtered and
ravaged all who would stand against
them.
Olman Migrations
The Olman of the southern Suel Basin
were the next tribe to break out, following
in the path of the Flan and avoiding conflict
with them and the native humanoids and
olves as much as possible. They eventually
forged their way into the tropical jungles
of Hepmonaland by way of the Tilvanot
Peninsula where they were quickly
enslaved by the Lizardfolk and Yuan-Ti of
the Torhoon Empire. After some time they
managed to regain their freedom with the
aid of the renegade Yuan-Ti god Kulkatlan
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and they began raising a number of city-
states of their own from the jungles of
those lands. Through centuries of warfare,
they built an empire eventually covering
nearly half of Hepmonaland.
Little is known even now of what
civilizations they built in that tropical
realm, but a handful of facts have been
established, and reasonable guesses can
be made to fill in some of the blank spaces.
Many wall paintings and miniature
dioramas in the ruins of Tamoachan
indicate that long ago the Olman fought a
long series of wars with the Touv . Though
the paintings of course place the Olman in
a superior position in every battle, there
are numerous clues that the Olman were
in fact losing most of these wars and were
often in a general state of retreat or siege.
The origins of these wars are unknown,
though there is some evidence that the
Olman Empire of this time was dominated
by the cult of Mazotz which did have
a marked propensity for mass human
sacrifice in times of societal crisis, often
involving thousands of prisoners or slaves
at once, and this habit may have enraged
its neighboring states in Hepmonaland.
The Olman never mastered ironworking
in any form, using bronze instead, and
rarely engraved metals, preferring to paint
or carve stone and wood.