Tamoachan the Great

At the height of the Olman expansion south out of Nyanzaru, an elven stranger appeared out of the jungle. No one saw a boat. Calling himself Tamoachan, he claimed to come from a country far to the north called ‘Cushra.’

His adventures quickly made him a folk hero. Tamoachan rode a triceratops into battle, armored in bone and brightly painted. Tamoachan once killed a tyrannosaurus with his bare hands. Tamoachan rescued a village from a horde of giant spiders. Tamoachan fed the hungry and consoled the grieving. It was no surprise that when the old king died suddenly with no heir, the people demanded that Tamoachan be crowned by the high priests. And so Tamoachan the Cushrite was made ruler of the Olman kingdom of N’gaza. No one now remembers where N’gaza was - the city was reclaimed by the jungle long before the Olmans fell.

Tamoachan’s cruelty grew along with his power, and he terrorized the people of N’gaza. He enslaved them, working them to death to complete the pyramid temple he had ordered built. At the height of his power, he became legendary for defeating several Chultan geshtai and trapping them in the pyramid he had built for himself. In time, of course, Tamoachan the Great became a threat to his neighbors as well as his own subjects. The other Olman kings then joined together, marched on the tyrant, and overthrew him. Many songs were once sung of Tamoachan’s defeat: songs of daring midnight raids, songs of duels between great heroes, songs of the siege of N’gaza and songs of the final defeat of Tamoachan by the Sorcerer-Queen of Ongaro. The victors freed the slaves and adopted the survivors into their own kingdoms. In the wake of their liberation the people left N’gaza for good and the place was forgotten. Today only songs and (presumably) ruins remain.