: 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?
I think you shouldn't be here--you died when the Tain was shattered. :-)
According to GURPS, the post-Soulblighter population might be as high as 6 million. Yes, towns and cities were ravaged, and armies were destroyed, but the massacres weren't as complete (except in the South) as they had been during the Great War. You've got a lot of homeless refugees who scattered into the country when their homes were destroyed and managed to elude the Dark armies until Alric triumphed.
In the sixty years since TFL the human population could easily have doubled, if they got right down to making babies as soon as possible. And the satchel charges came from Stoneheim; the Ghols still hold that, but the Dwarves have owned Myrgard since TFL.
--SiliconDream
