So this is my suggestion for an overhaul for the Taurethrim faction. I'll eventually be getting to the other two but this is focused on just the Taurethrim. It's quite detailed and fairly long.
So this is my suggestion for an overhaul for the Taurethrim faction. I'll eventually be getting to the other two but this is focused on just the Taurethrim. It's quite detailed and fairly long.
Seeing that the Forest people migrated from it due to floodings that damaged their population, I am fairly sure few would have stayed there, if any.
But at this point you're just specualting. My point is there is certainly room for people to be left behind in the current wording. I agree you can also read it as very few people would have been left behind, but realistically it is far too open ended to determine how many people were left behind, if any.
I don't really like the idea for subfactions. To me the Mumakah subfaction sounds alright but the one for Kimen Kah doesn't sound lore friendly because the people of Kimen Kah were wiped out by the Half-Trolls and it's unlikely that there are any survivors in Taur-na-Thorogrim.
I agree that the Kimen Kah thing doesn't really line up with the current lore. That's why I discuss it in the suggestion and these comments. But I will say it isn't excluded. It says they
"completely burned all that remained of the original Taurethrim civilization, and slaughtered the entire population of the city."
To me that leaves the possibilty of other people who weren't from the city, but from the kingdom. The faction as I've suggested doesn't really count as part of the original civilization as there isn't enough there to be one, and as they are basically meant to be the remnants of the military I think it could still fit within that definition. I do think if I'd suggested a full subfaction with built structures and large settlements I'd agree with you, but as it stands it's more liike the lore concerning the Dunedain and Arnor, where the latter was completely wiped out, yet we still have the former.
And there isn't a Mumakah subfaction suggested, as I felt that went against the lore too much, rather ironically.
"completely burned all that remained of the original Taurethrim civilization, and slaughtered the entire population of the city."
To me that leaves the possibilty of other people who weren't from the city, but from the kingdom. The faction as I've suggested doesn't really count as part of the original civilization as there isn't enough there to be one, and as they are basically meant to be the remnants of the military I think it could still fit within that definition. I do think if I'd suggested a full subfaction with built structures and large settlements I'd agree with you, but as it stands it's more liike the lore concerning the Dunedain and Arnor, where the latter was completely wiped out, yet we still have the former.
And there isn't a Mumakah subfaction suggested, as I felt that went against the lore too much, rather ironically.
I'd like to respectfully point out that Kimen Kâh was a new city-state with Morwaith vassals, and probably only had the city and a few farms around it.
Yeah I don't think it would be like a full kingdom or anything, I'm just pointing out that there might be people living outside the city who are technically unaccounted for. Even if it's just a few farmers.
Everytime I read your suggestion I like it more and more.I would however say that the Quasi Black Númenórean faction should actually do more sacrifices not less lol. In official lore the Black Númenóreans sacrificed the locals to Morgoth and its likely their descendants in Far Harad would be no different.
While I would agree, the Lost Chronicles says that while the Blood Kings ruled, the Taurethrim "once more began to include human sacrifice, a practice they had abandoned under Númenórean influence." I think Taurelonde isn't meant to be Black Numenorean at the point where they begin contact, so Otoch Kah would have removed many of them before the Numenoreans began to follow Sauron.