No, I think that's pretty good reasoning. Of course, you're assuming Toblakai civilisation was centred in one area of the world, and then after Icarium the Toblakai began a great migration outwards in order to save themselves. The Toblakai were known at their height to be a seafaring people though, so I think that's unlikely. This is what is actually said about Icarium's deeds:
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"I led the families that survived. Down from the high lands. Through the broken veins that bled beneath the sun…" Broken veins?'
'Ice,' Delum said.
'Bleeding beneath the sun, aye. "We were so few. Our blood was cloudy and would
grow cloudier still. I saw the need to shatter what remained. For the T'lan Imass were
still close and much agitated and inclined to continue their indiscriminate slaughter.'"1
Karsa scowled. 'T'lan Imass? I do not know those two words.'
'Nor I,' Delum replied. 'A rival tribe, perhaps. Read on, Karsa Orlong. Your eye is
quicker than mine.'
'"And so I sundered husband from wife. Child from parent. Brother from sister. I
fashioned new families and then sent them away. Each to a different place. I proclaimed
the Laws of Isolation, as given us by Icarium whom we had once sheltered and whose
heart grew vast with grief upon seeing what had become of us. The Laws of Isolation
would be our salvation, clearing the blood and strengthening our children. To all who
follow and to all who shall read these words, this is my justification—"'
Here there is no mention of crossing seas, only traversing down from the high lands. This would have been around the time of the ending of the Jaghut-induced ice age, which, I'm presuming, preceded (if only slightly) the end of the 33rd Jaghut War, which was roughly 300,000 years before Burn's Sleep. The Fall was around 180,000 years later than that. T'lan Imass were pursuing them, perhaps because they helped the Jaghut or harboured Icarium, I don't know. But the fact remains that there were Toblakai on Genabackis before the Fall, and we have no evidence that Icarium sent the Toblakai into isolation the world over, only on Genabackis (the very proposition that he instituted laws that an entire race adopted seems a bit incredulous). For the Toblakai to have been a great threat during Kallorian times meant they would not have been existing as marginal tribes with minimal contact with the outside world. I tend to think of the situation that the fringe elements of Toblakai civilisation, existing away from what seems to be the 'nexus' on Korelri and Jacurucku, were weakened over time by inbreeding, as they were likely few in number and bred infrequently, and those who did not isolate themselves became their descendants, like the Tarthenal, Fenn, Trell, Barghast etc. As for those on Jacurucku and Korelri, I assume Kallor annihilated those on Jacurucku as he did the Thel Akai, and the Fall contributed to the end of Toblakai civilisation on Korelri (I imagine there are still pockets of Toblakai or their descendants on Korelri and Jacurucku).
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