: The reson I started this thread was to uncover who was in
: control at Gower. If all of the Fallen Lords are
: dead, then it seems that Alric would clearly be able
: to reign supreme with little to nothing that could
: stop him.
But why bother with Gower? There's nothing there; chances are everyone was long dead by the time the Dark reached the west, the lands blighted and the cities blasted the fragmented ruins. The Leveller wanted to be "master of the unthinking dead and their blasted lands", so I don't think he'd keep anyone in an occupied city alive - or would even occupy a city in the first place, just crush it and move on.
Anyway, my point is, nobody saw any point in moving out to Muirthemne and rebuilding the Cath Bruig Empire until Alric wanted to grab the Ibis Crown - what is there in Gower that would warrant going and rebuilding it, at least until the natural growth of civilization brought them near it?
: Since it says most but not all, that would incur that
: at least one of the unseen Fallen Lords was destroyed,
: but not necessarily both. Taking Soulblighter (who
: escaped) out of the equation, that leaves three Fallen
: Lords. Most would mean the majority but not all, so
: two out of three would qualify. The Deceiver was among
: those two who were thought killed, so that leaves one
: of the unseen Fallen Lords as dead and one as alive.
Why take Soulblighter out of the equation? They could have said "most" specifically because Soulblighter escaped, meaning that all the others are presumed dead (though the Deceiver turned out to be barely alive still).
: Now in my original post I wanted to know who was in
: charge at Gower. So from this deduction it would show
: that one of the unseen Fallen Lords managed to escape
: and is now holding rule over the minions of the Dark,
: possibly at Gower. I doubt that the Dark could remain
: organized without someone in charge, so that shows the
: necessity for a prominent figure but not necessarily a
: Fallen Lord. So someone is still running the show at
: Gower. I would prefer to think of it as the last
: Fallen Lord and not some big-shot evil guy, but I
: guess both would work out alright.
But again, why would anyone have to be in Gower? It's just a wasteland, a desicrated ruin of a kingdom, like most the eastern half of the continent, so the Light's not gonna be there. And sure, one last Fallen Lord COULD be there, but there's no evidence pointing to that, and a big piece pointing against it: the armies of the Light would move in and crush any Dark forces they suspected to be lying around. They're fated to win.
