Editing Thunderous Quake (section)

== History of the People of New Thunder ==
Coulritloxa began as a simple fortress on the edge of Creation, built during the period of the Shogunate, its original name lost in the mists of time. The fortress was well-protected and served as a staging point from which much of the Southeast’s defense was maintained. Some of the cleverest combatants were sent here, and through the conflict with the Fair Folk, developed many new advances in combat. None matched the prowess of one fighter, a giant among men, who towered over his foes and used this to win many battles. He was called Coulrit or “Newthunder.” But this was in the waning of the Terrestrial power, and soon the borders of creation encroached around this mountain nation, cutting them off completely. High in their peaks, they held off the invading chaos, but the outside world assumed them destroyed.

When the Great Contagion sundered the lives of the world, this nation lost very few, thanks to being separated by the Wyld. However, the constant battles with the Fair Folk cost them many lives. Coulrit eventually rose to leadership and initiated a new religious and social system, honoring gods of his choosing, and taking as wives most of the surviving women large and sturdy enough to survive his appetites. His lineage dominates the Coulritloxtec people, and through harsh elimination of those too weak and small to survive the unyielding Fair Folk invasions, those who remain today either trace their lineage directly to Coulrit, or don’t realize that they are his descendant.

For all of his avarice, tyranny, and unquenching hungers, he also did much to support the sciences of the people and protect the nation against outside threats. They are a people obsessed with astrology and mathematics, honoring gods they have never met nor ever understood merely because the calculations of the priests tell them to do so. They use two complicated calendar systems that combine to form a third system of dating that spreads from the first moment of creation to the present. They live their lives governed by the astrological signs that their priests divine using this calendar.

During the centuries that followed Coulrit’s bloody rule, much has changed in this nation now named after him. Two things have always remained: the constant battles against the Wyld, and complete and utter seclusion. Myths have arisen that the Anathema have destroyed all that once lay below the mists of the valleys, and others say that only their mountains and the Wyld remain of all creation. The Coulritloxtec people have never even heard of the Scarlet Dynasty or the Empress, having lasted thousands of years with no contact with the outside world.

The outside world however, has had contact with some of the Coulritloxtec people. Those disgraced, born on the days of prohibition, Anathema, or who refuse to bow to the Coilritloxtec gods are forced down from the mountain, to face the dangers of the Wyld. Most die there, but some survive the ordeal and go on, bound to secrecy about their mountainous people, and travel the rest of Creation. Long ago a heretic priest, exiled and secretly exalted, made his way west and introduced the nascent Varangian people to the Coulritloxtec calendar and astrological system, thereby giving the Empire its lunar calendar and 5 days of calibration.