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Old 02-21-2019, 04:40 PM   #150
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Default Re: [MH] Vile Vortices and Supernatural Threats

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It occurs to me ... after 900 years of independence, Kafiristan became Nuristan in 1895/1896. That is close to your Pakistani vortex. What magic kept the locals from being conquered and converted by Moslem rulers, and after the conversion what did they forget which should not have been lost?
Oooh, that's an excellent point.

Plus, hidden valleys of blue- and green-eyed people with pre-Islamic beliefs in the Pamirs and Hindu Kush are prime adventure fodder. The Man Who Would be King ruled.
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Another crusade against idolatry was at length resolved on; and Mahmud led the seventh one against Nardain, the then boundary of India, or the eastern part of the Hindu Kush; separating, as Ferishta says, the countries of Hindustan and Turkistan and remarkable for its excellent fruit. The country into which the army of Ghazni marched appears to have been the same as that now called Kafirstan, where the inhabitants were and still are, idolaters and are named the Siah-Posh, or black-vested, by the Muslims of later times. In Nardain there was a temple, which the army of Ghazni destroyed; and brought from thence a stone covered with certain inscriptions, which were according to the Hindus, of great antiquity.
And that's clearly the opening of a Mythos story.
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If elders are libraries, Afghanistan since the 1970s is black with the smoke of burning books.
Sadly, yes.
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