Story:Assorted Reports of Mahant Tangmeida Lishog Ywnrenh

I write as the Mahant in charge of the expedition to Sa Tam, the unknown land on the edge of that which is seen. I give first my thanks unto the Ayatollah Brje Hul, who organized and funded this expedition. I give second thanks to the crew, both mine own scientific and the alloted sailing, for it is every hand which opens this most far Eye of the all seeing Temple. I give thanks third to my family, to my mother and my siblings and my many lovers, who have aided me in ascending to such a high honor as this position in research. I give thanks highest up to our God, Modhes Ywl, and through Saint Sarrhu his blessings, for great tithing on this voyage.

On the Voyage

It was on the end of the third day that the Lharrosi established contact with us. They had several days as a head start, yet travelled in that inexerable speed-as-stone of their people. How a voyage so short could span a weak, I have no clue. Their captain, a man by the name of Garoukyo, is personable and agreeable, if perhaps lacking in the mind's eyes for an expedition such as this. I can say less of the Missionary-Resident who I am paired with by private money, Kaqwben Drur-Trubc. Let not the name betray it, the man is lowborn, in fact I an not sure any of is the name he was given fresh the womb or even years after, and while I hold no contempt for the laity, I hold much towards those who call themselves "missionaries". Trubc is as pure an example of them; he ignores my authority and is defient on my every statement as though he himself were in control, and he acts as though his clubskulled posse are in some ways an arm of the Temple most holy. Already he has stirred talk of violence against the natives if they do not comply to convert, already he has done this, when we are yet even to land!

We have slowed to a crawl to accompany the Lharrosi, though it is to be advised in this weather regardless. Our captain, a gruff man veteran of any number of wars by his demenor, tells me of rocks and strange floating accumulates of ice, which were attested prior by Ouapeans whalers (among other things. I will not be shy to mention if there appears eels the length of the horizon, or squids the size of a dozen dozen kegs). We are near to the coast, and have spotted their curious sea-fairing schooners. On the coast can be seen a thinly spread collection of moderately sized dwellings, but inhabitents are yet to have been found. I have urged to the Lharrosi the importance of landing, and of making to find the people of this land, to understand them, and Garoukyo agrees. It has been 18 days since departure. We land tomorrow.

Arrival and Contact

This place is colder than high Ywl in the winter, and is home to a facinating celestial phenominon wherein the skies ripple with brilliant hues of green, as though the angels of Heaven were snaking along the cosmos. The Lharrosi took an irrationally fearful reaction, as to be expected of their cultural psyche. I held a rite of screaming to heaven, to ease the mood and make the pheonominon seen as a beauty of nature, but I do not believe our compatriots took to it. The Lharrosi austerety in the face of the extrordianary is something which must itself be studied, perhaps there is an excess thickness in their skulls or a genetic weakness in a passage of their brains. I do pity them. They were so rattled by the sky they began panicking to use the radio, and in their confusion broke theirs, though they claimed there was an interferrence disrupting them. I took that into consideration, postulating that the celestial event may affect the air below and radio within, but I believe they only heard every other word.

Explorers were set out, and despite Kaqwben's protests, I allowed none to be missionaries. They returned within days and spoke of a settlement populated by a pale, cyan-tinged folk. I took the time to brush up on the Joyan and Rojan tongues, which are thought by some anthrolopologists to be related to one another, and which I theorized may be related to the Tami tongue. Myself, Garoukyo, and four others departed to the village (keeping our number small so as to not intimidate them), and arrived within a day.

Once there, we found the people of Sa Tam. They are indeed a very pale shade of light blue, and the rounding of their eyes and slightly conic facial structured marked my assumption of "Rojoya" theory relation to have been correct. Their bodies are lean, vaguely kite-shaped, as one would expect of hunter-gatherers, and they stand at a moderate height. Their tongue is indeed a distant relative of Joye, though with many coincidental similarities to Lharrosi, which was seized upon by them, but I believe this to be a case of convergent evolution, such as found in similar connections to Tieteran, Tanospy, and Krondish. For example, the natives refer to their island as Domws Swpra Sacha, which the Lharrosi believed similar to Duomo Suprema Saggio "Great Bishopric" roughly. I however believe it akin to Joyan Jane Obra Esa "Home Above Rocks". The natives, henceforth refered to as the Sachi, wear thick outfits of fur well worn for the climate, though among the few I saw without I noticed markings upon their skin. They do not wear their skin shorn like Roja, and in fact an elder shaman of sorts, Calyach, sported a full beard. It was Calyach who took us in and gave us food, fish gutted with an expertly crafted stone handaxe. He gave it to us as gifts, though the Lharrosi, being a people unfamilar with hospitality, attempted to "pay" for it. Indeed, the Sachi live an idyllic and peaceful life, free of bondage and societal concern. They live and hunt in community with little governmental structure other than a respect for their elders and wise ones. Calyach, being their equivalent to a priest, said that it was Mas Kel-Thuurm whom they worshiped (though of course not by that name) in his capacity as the Storm and lord of chaos, but that ever since the calming they have believed him dead. He said also that farther inland were those who worshiped the flames of Heaven, which they also woshiped but not in the same capacity. This to me marks a Sasatanl'c society, but one which has drifted back as close to Adeydom as possible. They are a wise people, who know much of natural philosophy, as the sort that the urban-dwelling modern populace has forgotten.The Lharrosi gifted the Sachi a dagger, and I gifted them a necklace, one of many that I have packed to give as gifts. We stayed with them for another day, observing their customs and culture, before returning to the camp.

I have given the order for two ships to scout the coastlines, one to the west and one to the east, and a Lharrosi'i ship will accompany one of them. I plan for another voyage inland, for longer study, during which I wil bring my fellow Nrohos, who is a more expert linguist than I. Kaqwben has relented in his junghoity, as in the time that I was gone he decided to mouth off to the capitain of my ship, and was for this beaten relentlessly by him and thirteen other sailors. With this, he has been humbled, and bends the knee to my judgement. I had to give a nominal punishment to the captain, first for assault and secondly for not naming his accompli, but it was of course quite minor, and he understood that I was merely following in law.