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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Siran Dunmorgan" data-source="post: 4145806" data-attributes="member: 39268">Overheard in the night watchHow… how can you even ask this?  Don't you see it?We're dying.  Everything is dying.  Every year, every season, brings another caravan or halfling riverboat, with some tale of towns or villages, or simple farmsteads, found burnt, or pulled apart, or simply abandoned for Ioun knows what reason.  They say the Empire has been gone from these lands for a hundred years.  That's a hundred years these lands have been falling into ruin, eaten away by the things from the wild.  Sometimes we know why, like that plague that obliterated Chétonville last winter, or the demon locusts that left nothing alive in Etrier the season before that.Another year, and maybe our town will be next.  Walls?  Palisades?  Militias?  Aye.  Sometimes that helps, when the bad things are a band of goblin raiders, or those jumped-up thugs calling themselves the Nerathi Legion.  I didn't like it when they came through, bossing everyone around like there was still an Empire, but even so, I wouldn't wish what happend to them on my worst enemy, when those wraiths took them.  But what good are walls, or swords, when it's a plague, or swarm?  Or something already inside, like those things the folks over in Peyzac called up to defend them from the Shadar-kai, and found they'd called up their own doom instead?Now, me? I'd leave—if there were anywhere to go.  Nerath's in ruins, as you say, and even the old cities by the coast are hard put; we have it bad here by the edge of the Forest.  They have it worse, at night under those unnatural tides in the dark of the moon.Why haven't we been overrun?  The miracle is that we've survived this long.  It just hasn't been our time, yet.  Maybe someday soon another fellow'll be picking though our bones, and trying to guess at what happened to us.  It's a dark time, lad, and like to be getting darker.—Siran Dunmorgan</blockquote>

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