Geez, now you've got me all intrigued, had to go look stuff up in the sourcebook. The section on the priests in Kilalammu is intriguing! Lost texts from Engsvanyali days! Powerful unknown sorceries. Lots of xenophobic monastery/temple complexes!
Is the strong Dark Trinity influence something you've decided for your campaign? It makes a lot of sense, especially given the way the political power in K. is fractured among clans. Plenty of opportunities for intrigue-minded dark priests to keep things confused and divided. Of course that could be the "old guard", maybe some younger, more radical change types might back a unification, with an eye towards the changes that would bring, and its eventual (and inevitable, in their minds) collapse...
The "Young Master" was said to be more or less friendly to the Tsolyani in Adventures on Tekumel 2/2, where is his demised recorded? Maybe he changed sides and led an ill-fated raid against a Tsolyani garrison? Or maybe he took his tribesmen down into southern Chaigari and ran afoul of the Salarvyani, looking to expand out of Fenul? Agents of the Petal Throne might even have encouraged that. Oh, I just found a Blue Room post that says his "holy war" broke and resulted in much inter-tribal conflict. Still no details though.
More sunstaff ideas:
--Maybe it's really big. A massive construction of gilded chlen-hide, with disks and rays and all kinds of arcane symbols on it. It takes a team of strong porters to move it anywhere.
--Maybe it's in pieces. The last time it was brought forth, its champion was defeated, and his senior generals/advisors distributed the parts of it among themselves to protect it from whoever they lost to. There might be piece in a hilltop temple here, a warren of a clanhouse there, a decaying guard tower somewhere else. Some groups might know they have a piece, and be willing to bring it forth if a prophecy is fulfilled, adequate inducments presented, etc. Others might no longer know they have it, or it could be forgotten in a lost storehouse somewhere.
--Maybe it's entirely lost, but the design of it still exists, and a replacement could be built, if the right craftsmen, materials, and enchanters could be brought together. To do so would require cooperation among clans and temples that have been feuding for centuries...
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