The Old Man of Razgir



The Old Man of Razgir is an ancient monument found at the very summit of the Guktinur mountain. According to Koigus-Ndere mythology it was was built by the Loghagh people so that they could sit behind its eyes and see all what was happening in the realm. During the war between the ighltugagh and Loghag people, the death god Anagom is said to have taken the monument by conquest and as such it has been used as a temple in his honour.

=Construction= The legend of the monument being built by mysterious ancient people has some truth to it. It is thought that the Proto-Koigus-Ndere name for the people, Loghagh or *lòɣ̂aɣ̂- meaning (“leaf people”), is in reference to the hair style used by the people where the hair is fashioned into a large and thin mohawk which is also the hair style depicted on the monument itself. The legends say that the Loghagh came over the sea from the east. Both of these descriptions hint that the Loghagh were indeed the far flung ancestors of the modern Ugrabti people. The Loghagh or “Proto-Ugrabti” viewed the then uninhabited land as sacred and they would go on seasonal pilgrimages to worship at the monument, this practice of course being distrupted when the Koigus-Ndere people settled in the area.

Despite knowing who built it, there is a great mystery of how they built it. The whole structure is made of one solid block of stone and even more curiously the type of stone it is made from isn’t the same as any in the area, suggesting that it was purposefully moved there. The type of stone is actually most commonly found in the Ugrabti homeland, possibly suggesting that they ferried the stone over an incredibly large distance. The most peculiar thing yet is that despite millenia of wind, rain and pilgrimage, the monument shows no sign of erosion at all. Many have tried to find the answers in the Ugrabti, hoping that some slither of knowledge was passed down or immortalised in legend but it seems that no cultural memory of ever having travelled to Northern Halmeda even exists among the modern people which is understandable given the massive timescale.