: Oops. HUGE mistake there. My calculation on how long the
: summoner had to work was WAY off. He did have five
: months of realtime, and assuming 1 month = 30 days...
: 5 months = 150 days = 3600 hours = 216,000 minutes =
: 12,960,000 seconds.
: Now, the Narrator from TFL said in Sons of Myrgard:
: "only a few seconds passed between the invocation
: of the thing and its sudden destruction, while it took
: us two days to escape the caves inside it." The
: thing he talks of is the tain (which the summoner is
: in). So basically one second realtime equals one day
: taintime.
That's a 1:86400 ratio of realtime to Taintime! Wow!
: So that means the summoner had 12,960,000 days in the
: tain to resurrect the myrkridia. That's frickin' long
: time. 35,506.85 years to be exact. I'll get back to
: that in a second.
There's also another possibility (which, of course, I can easily shoot down, but...): what if it was 5 months Tain-time? That would be 150 seconds real-time, or 2.5 minutes.
(You can see how easily that is shot down).
: Now, going back with my previous idea of the summoner
: resurrecting 500 myrks per tain-day, I'll scale it
: back to 200. He probably spends a lot of time doing
: other things besides ressing, even though ressing
: takes almost no time. So, 200 myrks per day times
: 12,960,000 days = 2,592,000,000 myrks.
But now, consider this: how many actual Krids were there way back when in their heyday? How many were trapped in the Tain, not hunted down by Connacht beforehand? Out of those in the Tain, how many survived the viscious cannibalistic battles well enough to leave intact skulls for the Summoner to ressurect them with? I'm betting that number is well below 2.592G.
So, Soulblighter's army would much be smaller. That solves that problem.
: Now, to my other point. The Summoner lived for 5 realtime
: months straight in the tain. That is 35506 years. He
: was one long-lived poopyhead. Soulblighter must have
: done something to keep him alive all that time. OR,
: the summoner's destiny as the summoner may have kept
: him alive all that time just because the gods wished
: it to be so.
Or, as Silicon said, maybe the busted Tain "leaked" it's magic time-compression algorhythms out, so the differential is not so huge anymore. Thus, 5 Tain months would be more or less 5 real months. This would also limit the size of Soulblighter's army, as the Summoner couldn't ressurect 200 Krids (by your estimate) per second, but instead only 200 per day, if that. (The area we see in "The Summoner" is near a skull platform, so there's lots of good skulls around. Elsewhere, I imagine, intact Krid skulls would be harder to find).
: I'm still amazed that 2.5 billion myrks couldn't rip up
: Alric so bad. I'm sure the summoner ran out of myrks
: to ressurect at some point, but every one that died
: could be brought back into the tain for him to
: resurrect. Soulblighter basically had a neverending
: supply of myrks.
But also figure this in: how are Soulblighter's forces going to retrive the skulls of Krids that died in battle if, seeing as the Krids lost, the area is still occupied by the Light? And even if the Krids won but some of them died, what percentage of the dead are going to have intact skulls after Dwarven explosives and magic fireballs have ripped them apart? And will they have time to gather up all the intact skulls before the next battle?
Considering these factors, Soulblighter's forces are hardly limitless.
: But my question stands: where are all of these excess
: myrks? They sure as hell weren't all in the tain,
: because if they were, the Deceiver would never have
: gotten to that evil little summoner.
They're dead.
