: The war is raging across all the lands of humanity,
: pretty much. As you can see from the "Walls of
: Muirthemne" narration, some Light forces are
: fighting in the West while a part of the Legion goes
: to Muirthemne with Alric. They couldn't afford to
: withdraw entirely from the Province, or Soulblighter
: would wipe out every civilian left behind.
Ah, I forgot about that.
: The Archer is probably either a member of a detachment of
: Alric's army, or of a local militia protecting the
: Forest Heart settlers we later see massacred in
: "Relic."
Very possible and a good explanation.
: As for the Dark's relationship to the Tain--what
: happened, remember, is that Soulblighter took a piece
: with him after it shattered during the Great War. When
: he found the Summoner, he brought him inside the
: Tain-world via that shard and sent him to resurrecting
: Krids.
: Since it's apparently possible to enter the Tain-world
: from any shard, it's doubtless equally possible to
: leave it that way. (Hence how The Deceiver was able to
: teleport everyone out of the Tain to Soulblighter's
: camp--he exited via the shard which Soulblighter
: personally kept.) So the resurrected Krids would be
: able to spread outward from every known surviving Tain
: Shard. And most of these, of course, were in Forest
: Heart. So that area would be the center of the Krid
: expansion--and indeed, that's where we see the
: heaviest distribution of uncontrolled Krids, as well
: as the first "encampment" of Myrk Giants.
That makes a lot of sense. :-) Thanks, I never really thought about half those things.
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