Editing Tumerok Lore (section)

=== Tumeroks and Virindi === 

Perhaps they could have lived in peace, if the [[Virindi]], known as the "the atual arutoa"<ref name=TahAhurenga>2001/10 [[Dark Majesty]] - [[The Tah of Ahurenga]]</ref> to the Tumeroks, had not discovered them.<ref name=AC:DMBestiaryTumerok/> 

At some point prior to 0 PY,<ref name=AC:DMBestiaryTumerok/> <ref name=HistoryofFortWitshire>1999/11 [[Release]] - [[History of Fort Witshire]]</ref> the Virindi discovered the Tumeroks trapped on Marae Lassel.<ref name=AC:DMBestiaryTumerok/> The cloaked creatures struck a deadly bargain with [[Aranpuh]], an embittered young outcast.<ref name=TahAhurenga>2001/10 [[Dark Majesty]] - [[The Tah of Ahurenga]]</ref> Aranpuh was taken and altered – perhaps the same alteration chronicled by the Aluvian [[Candeth Martine]] and possibly by Aerbax itself <ref name=DestructionsAndBeginnings> 2003/01 [[The Slumbering Giant]] - [[Destructions and Beginnings]]</ref>) to look more human. So empowered, Aranpuh returned with a host of other angry young Tumeroks, and seized control of the Hea tribe.<ref name=AC:DMBestiaryTumerok/>

After [[Aran]] successfully took control of the Hea tribe of Tumeroks and gained the name [[Hea Arantah]] <ref name=TahAhurenga/>, all of his new tribesmen were altered in the same way. At some point after the alteration of the Hea, but before the Hea invaded the mainland (though after 0 PY<ref>2001/11 [[Dark Majesty]] - [[AC:DM CD Lore/Early Dereth Texts/Lilitha's Bow|Lilitha's Bow]]</ref><ref>2001/11 [[Dark Majesty]] - [[AC:DM CD Lore/Early Dereth Texts/The Legend of Lilitha|The Legend of Lilitha]]</ref>) [[Lilitha]] was captured by [[Hea Temenua]] on [[Marae Lassel]].<ref name=TheOneNamedLilitha>2001/11 [[Dark Majesty]] - [[The One Named Lilitha]]</ref> She was given to the Virindi, who told the Hea, ''"Here are the ones we have gifted you in the image of. Behold! We will open Wind and Light to you, that you may go among their holdings. Bring them to us. We wish to understand them, and the one they are protected by."''<ref name=TheOneNamedLilitha/>


In return for doing the bidding of the Virindi, the Hea are granted Virindi weapons and passage to the freedom of mainland Dereth. But there was one last condition of this bargain. In order to serve as “infiltrators,” the Virindi altered the bodies of the Hea from their natural form to something more….human.<ref name=AC:DMBestiaryTumerok/> <ref name=PaintingTumerok/> It is “[[Hea Arantah]]'s” warriors who have bedeviled humans for so long. <ref name=AC:DMBestiaryTumerok/> In the early years after the defeat of the [[The One Queen]]<ref name=AC:DMBestiaryTumerok/><ref name=HistoryofFortWitshire/> (the exact date is unknown, some time between 0 PY<ref name=AC:DMBestiaryTumerok/><ref name=HistoryofFortWitshire/> and 7 PY <ref name=OrigManual25>1999/11 [[Release]] - [[Asheron's Call Manual]] p. 25 - Rithwic</ref>) Tumeroks first began to attack human settlements. The loose siege maintained around [[Dryreach]], for example, is used by the tribe as a brutal training ground for new Tumerok warriors. <ref name=AC:DMBestiaryTumerok/> <ref name=PaintingTumerok/>  It wasn't until [[Dark Majesty|Leafcull, 12 PY]] when Marae Lassel was opened that humans discovered the true nature of the relationship between Tumeroks and Virindi.<ref name=AC:DMBestiaryTumerok/>