Alrighty, so:
1.) Change magical substance
2.) Before I change this out, could you tell me more about the Klyros anatomy in a private message? Perhaps they could have never collected any thing in a bag, but instead breathed air from a magical realm into their galbladders by inhaling the magical substance. Ptar Qeron, an original runner, and eventual leader of the counsil, could be the one who "breathes" life into the colossus, literally.
3.) Runners is an appopriate name, I think. They didn't have the powers of Laanx yet, so they could barely glide. Their bodies had been malnourished and withered from staying in small caves. The Stone Labyrinth was hardly a spacious area, so how mnay feet would they have been able to glide anyways? I liked, "Runners" because it gave an olympian feel to the members. An ancient sentiment which klyros in the modern day would aspire to; to become such as their ancestors.
4.) I think it would be easily done,considering how huge the stalactite is. They would have plenty of room to soar. They would NOT have possessions. They are a nomadic race who carry little more than the clothes on their back. They would have no need for livestock, and other material.
5.) So create smaller areas in the bay? Eklato can be the original point, and i'll name some special attribue such as being the first rock on which Ptar set foot onto.
and finally
5.b.) So we can not possibly have the fight between Talad and the Colossus? I thought the fight was very symbolic, and it allowed me to explain many peices of topography in the area. While Eklato bay and a few other rivers existed, many were created by the heated battle between overlord, and bastard spawn of the Klyros' own haughty standings. Talad took it upon himself to not have another Diaboli incident, so he took charge and broke the colossus, the very representation of enslavement to the klyros, into the ground. And so, they start with a new pallet and a respect for Talad.
It explained the crystal which lie under the sea, a good explanation for the gravitational field some described. It gave birth to the floating island Levian. It carved the rivers and lakes of the area.
It just work, and I don't really know how else to create all of these areas, without giving a weak "They were there".
As far as the Fairy Tale stye, I used it because that was how the background was written. I was tempted to use word choice, diction and styles complimentary to the bible, or torah, but instead kept the very words used in the historical setting. I wanted my story to blend as well as possible with the previous material. That is why I wanted talad to be present, the klyros to be used very discriminately and all things to be as vague and mystical as possible.
