I've been thinking about Myth's storyline, and it seems that even after Soulblighter is killed at Tharsis, he has succeeded in destroying humanity!
Consider this:
At the end of Myth 1, the only survivors of Muirthemne were the heron gaurd (few in number).
One of the major dwarven cities had been destroyed and the other one was captured, so the only surviving dwarves were exiles (also presumably few in number).
Almost every city in the west had been sacked. Alric said, " Alric convinced our officers that the west was lost. That our small force could contribute nothing to the hopeless battles that would soon be fought around Madrigal, Willow and Tandem. These cities would fall, he said, and all their people would die."
Doesn't seem like many survivors there either.
Add to that that Alric is the only survivor of the Legion, and you've got one severely depleted Light population!
By the time of Myth 2, the human population probably wouldn't have significantly recovered.
At the end of Myth 2, Soulblighter has completed the genocide Balor started.
Shiver crushed "all resistance in the west".
Also, "every town and village along the northern border of Forest Heart had been ravaged by the undead."
Also, we can presume that within Forest Heart the humans didn't fare any better, as evidenced by the destroyed human village in the level where you look for the Tain Shard.
"there was nothing left in Strand" for the journal narrator.
The Dark don't take prisoners often, and when they do the prisoners don't live long.
Plus, in the munitions dump level it says the satchel charges were taken from the Dwarven homelands, so we can assume that they have fallen to the Dark again.
So, that just leaves a few scattered people here and there plus the force Alric captured Muirthemne with. Of that force, almost all of them who went with Alric to Tharsis died.
Considering Muirthemne is in the middle of a desert, and Alric took mostly male soldiers with him to garrison it, it doesn't look good for humanity. So did Soulblighter really win?
What do you'all think?
Cheers,
Murgen
