>>5375204>>5375142>>5375135>>5375100>>5375090>>5375067>A wilder land of cruder-living humans who do in fact worship you, or at least their cultural impression of Tanaloa. With their own strange rituals and giving themselves to the sea, by your estimation from afar they may be some distant remnants of the old Atlanteans, though having forgotten their own past. Currently their land and lives are under attack by other invading humans, which is why you heard them calling out to you so strongly.Although the other locations are promising, you feel after all this time on your own, you'd appreciate some people who recognize you for what you are... even if those people are wretched humans. Plus, it's a more definite step to increasing your divinity than the other locations, having to foster faith there. By contrast, you just have a different problem to deal with here, in helping these faithful followers. Their own problem, other humans, which is something you are all too familiar with... and well-capable of dealing with!
The only problem you can foresee, the only immediate problem at least, is the matter of their faith in you. Specifically you, from what you can tell, nothing to do with your mother. This makes some sense if these people are the distant descendants of the Atlantean survivors; you didn't show up preaching your goddess to them, you showed up in force to destroy. Thus they would only know of you, Tanaloa the demigod, and you who they worship. A benefit if you imagine yourself someday ascending to full godhood, but a hindrance if you imagine finding or saving your own goddess.
Either way though, it doesn't affect whether you're going to interact with these people. Of course you are! They called out to you, and so you answer! Hopefully though, they understand the consequences of praying to a vengeful and hungry sea monster...
<span class="mu-s">"Pah, see how poorly their ships are."</span>
<span class="mu-b">"You should have seen the ships from my time..."</span>
Together you and Faysal remark on the passing ships, watching from the waves in your ongoing observation of this new land before you decide to act. Another factor to take into account is the conflict plaguing the natives here, that you misunderstood at first; it's not an immediate attack at this moment. The more you explore along the coast here the more you see, it's an invasion and occupation that has been taking place for some time now, enough for the invaders to have their own settlements and castles along the coast closest to their own homeland across the sea. So it's not as though you can just swoop in and fight one battle to rescue the locals, and viola you will have saved the land! It may take awhile and some effort to either expel these invaders or force them into submission.