Some good points, although I fail to see how Troy, a Greek/Ionian city would be an issue for the Romans. Forgive me if I sound like a twat, but we just did a study on Mycenaen Greek society (around which Homer based his Illiad and Odyessy), and Troy was destroyed by Greeks and inhabited by Greeks. It is, you'll remember, very close to other Greek city-states along the Ionian coast, as well as Byzantium.
One thing we are all forgetting here is what exactly, the world is. If you look through the Bible (which I sometimes do), you find reference to a flood which covered the whole world (Noah's Ark), but archaeological dating shows that a flood of that size never occured BUT one did cover the majority of Europe. So, it really wasn't a worldwide flood, but since Europe is all that the people of the time knew (as well as some of Africa and Asia), it was their whole world.
So Soulblighter destroying the world and shattering the Cloudspine wouldn't necessarily destroy the WHOLE world, just the portion with which the Light is familiar. Unless of course the Myth world is comprised of one fairly small continent...
So, while this could be an apocalypse, it would not be a worldwide thing. Even if Soulblighter did cause Tharsis to erupt, it wouldn't be enough to destroy the world. Sure, it'd shatter the cloudspine and temporarily block out the sun, but unless there is only this one continent, then it wouldn't as as world shattering as Soulblighter, Journal Dude and Alric describe. Oh, it'd be world shattering for them, but hardly something of apocalyptic proportions.
LR
