: We do? And how, exactly, do we know this? Connacht sunk
: the Trow cities, and I would presume that Si'Anwon was
: sunken at the same time as the rest. So the Dream of
: Unlife could have been a carefull-guarded runestone in
: the old Trow city. Humans could even have journeyed
: there to learn its secrets before, risking the Trow in
: one of the most perilous journeys any man could make.
: So it's even possible that the Trow didn't name it and
: that they have never told us anything about it. It
: could have been used by previous Levellers and other
: Dark archmages, presuming it does something
: necromantic as the name suggest. Just because Bahl'al
: and none of his contemporaries or successors have
: found it doesn't mean that NO human EVER has EVER
: found or even used it.
"After the death of the gods but before the Age of Man, a part of the sun fell to earth and began to chew its way into the world's heart. Wyrd waited two days and then hurled the northern ocean into its burrow, extinguishing the ember and blanketing the world in steam for nine years."
"In human lore, only the ruins of Si'anwon remain, sunk beneath the waters of the Deep in the meteor strike that created that body of water long before Connacht passed his judgment."
So if you believe GURPS--I imagine the former quote was written by McLees, though the latter was doubtless Seabolt's--Si'anwon was sunk before the Age of Man.
And if you don't believe GURPS, and think that Si'anwon was sunk by Connacht, then The Watcher must have gone there very recently indeed--in fact he must have done so after Balor freed and recruited him. In which case the Dream of Unlife can't have had anything to do with making Thrall or other ordinary undead, since The Watcher and Shiver were doing fine in that area much earlier.
However, in that case it would be very plausible that, as I suggested, the Dream was used specifically to create Unliving beings like Myrmidons. Before Connacht, the Dream's available in the still-standing city of Si'anwon, so Moagim Reborn could go and learn it and thereby create Forsaken. After Connacht, the Dream's generally unavailable until Balor sends The Watcher to go retrieve it from the sunken city--hence the only unliving beings to be around during TFL are those whom Balor or The Watcher created personally, namely Myrmidons and perhaps Shades.
--SiliconDream
