The Thaumat wasn’t the only one to be hunted and killed by the Church. The False Coyote was also declawed and defanged, an act that– while controversial– would have been unthinkable if she wasn’t a provocateur
At the dawn of high Asthaom’s thousand-year drought, the False Coyote helped a contingent of ancestral Sarikote find sanctuary– A body of land which would soon be cast into the ocean black, and become the island Mercasor. While she’s celebrated for her heroism there (to the point that those Mercasian Sarikote are called Ka-Sarikote in her honor) I think that she has much older crimes to answer for. Her long associations with the Thaumat remain a hot point of contention, even within Ka-Sarikote communities.
Incidentally, she’s also the reason that Mercasor has coyotes and high Asthaom does not. They were extirpated from the high Asthaom desert during the thousand-year drought, but continue to thrive at Mercasor.
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