Focussing again back to the main titel-map, I tried to create a little historic slideshow from the past to the maps present, showing how the Wallungs moved over the centuries and how they started to replace the Ithil Empire, which has been weaken so much, that it nearly collapsed totally into a kind of meaningless Kingdom.
The Wallungs formed long before, out of six to seven great tribes in the north. These tribes had some similarities in culture, language and origin and so they have grown together to the Wallungs under different an numerous kings and rulers. The Wallungs were attracted from the acquistions and chances which they saw in the Ithil empire and they started trading. The Ithilian politics assessed the Wallungs as friendly people and so they allowed the Wallungs to enter the Empire, take land there and be a part of the Empire. Not without behind thoughts - The Wallungs has to pay a price and change their multitheistic religions into the monotheistic religion and the men has to serve into the Ithilian army because the large Empire with it´s thousands of border-miles has to be protected and the expansion poltic of the Ithilian Emperor needed many troops.
So when the Chindras arrived and the tribes at the Ithilian borders went out of control even the Wallungs tooked the chance to move and to expand and looking back, the Wallungs were the most succesfull people, doing so. So in the end, the Ithilian Empire was decimated to some 20% of it´s original size and to some 30% of it´s military power, just enough to protect their small remnant kingdom (which in fact was overrunned some 50 years later by another threat from the southeast - but tha´s another story !
So I tryed to create an animated gif, showing the way over some 300 years of Ithilian and Wallungian history:
This was the start:
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This was the movement: (animated gif)
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