Recent excavation in southwestern Kerofinela has produced a treasure trove of materials from the Late Heortling period. This blog is chiefly concerned with the literary collection of the scribe Mianmo Running Alynx, which was unearthed from one of the White Horse Barrows. There, on the frontier between civilization and barbarism (itself situated within another such frontier), Mianmo curated a collection of texts that are in conversation with other works of her period, such as Dagius Furius’s Orlanthi Book and Usuphus of Jonstown’s Six Seasons in Sartar, but which in many places displays a striking divergence from such classical literature. Her Thedogony, for example, raises many questions about our understanding of the Orlanthi birth-of-evil myth, and The Lost Book of Etyries, Named Goodears might change our understanding of early non-human embracing of the Lunar Way.
Notably, both study of her grave art and analysis of her skeleton suggest that Mianmo was one of the sa-elurae, one of the civilized shapeshifting foxes local to the region (having chosen life in society over the intoxicating freedom of eating weird bugs). These sa-elurae were strongly associated with the Illusion Rune, and this makes Mianmo’s accounts dubious on both sides of the gap called Time. It is possible that she was nothing more than a fabulist, or was perceived as such by her society. If so, her approach to the Thed mythos was exceedingly dangerous, given that it would have opened her up to accusations of being a Chaos sympathizer. (Her other two personal runes were Earth and Life, usually arranged on either side of that suggestively empty triangle.)
