: Covenant doesn't look rebuilt to me. It looks pretty much
: the same as the old Covenant. We know from the journal
: entry that the Great Library was rebuilt (and probably
: a bit of the nearby grounds), but I don't think they
: restored the rest of the city. If they did, why aren't
: there any inhabitants? Or screams and corpses at
: least, as there are in Madrigal on "Gate of
: Storms?"
Yeah, right. They rebuilt the library and the grounds around it (complete with working fountains) and put important books like the Total Codex in it, but didn't rebuild it during sixty years of sweet peace.
Apply Ockham's razor to that and see what you get.
: Madrigal fell to the Dark, but it was not sacked so
: completely. Covenant fell early in the War and the
: Dark were able to destroy it at their leisure; it was
: then overgrown with grass and weeds for ten or fifteen
: years. Madrigal fell only a few weeks before the war
: had ended, and so although the loss of life was
: severe, the city itself was not razed so completely
: and would be much easier to rebuild.
Madrigal was left for the Dark to raze it for several weeks. That's more than enough time to burn, kill, maim or otherwise scare the living daylights out of everyone as well as level whatever buldings might be standing. We're talking tireless undead and a few Fallen Lords here. They don't demand lunch breaks if they're ordered to smash a city to pieces.
Peter Isotalo
