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Do we know anything about who called these places home before the two feuding archmages moved in? It dawned on me that I have no idea about any ancient history or indigenous ancestries and cultures for the region that's now the Impossible Lands.
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Going by the Lost Omens World Guide, the pharaohs of Osirion allowed Geb to take control of the south in -929 due to their decline in power, and Quantium was a city-state before Nex made it his capital. Osirion's "height of prosperity" in -3000 AR is in the Impossible Lands timeline so at least a portion of Nex and Geb would've been under its rule by then, if not the entirety. Nex the wizard is said to have "arose in the centuries following Osirion's withdrawal from its imperial holdings in eastern Garund" and then traveled more centuries, so it seems like Osirion lost control of Quantium around -1300 AR at the latest.
Can't find anything there or on the wiki about the previous inhabitants besides a sentence about Osirion's conquest. The history nerd in me likes to think it might've had something akin to the Kerma kingdom of Nubia given it's the region south of not-Egypt that was eventually (temporarily) conquered by it, but neither Nex nor Geb are really "fantasy counterpart cultures" per se so something entirely unlike Earth could fit as well. This region's been getting more focus lately, so hopefully we'll learn something soon...
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We do get the tiniest glimpse of life in pre-Geb along the Axanir River in Ulgrem-Axaan's write up in Monsters of Myth. It's not much but we do see some portion of the Axanir River system that is undisturbed by any significant encroachment of an industrial civilization.
Again this is just a tiny glimpse of a small portion of a river system and it is difficult to extract much information with any certainty.