Chapter 210: Follow The Fire
It’s odd, to think about that fact that these natural ecosystems around us used to teem with life.
The earth looked far different back then, and both reports and historical evidence show the destruction which occurred following the silver fire.
The thing is, with the introduction of magic, and the appearance of rifts, we’d expect for there to be far more of a rearrange then we’ve seen in the local environment. The fact things are still so bleak, and the destruction is just now starting to show signs of reversal speaks to a sort of contamination that the destructive fires brought.
When they say that the goddess scorched the earth, really, they aren’t even getting close to how much lasting damage she managed to achieve.
The question is then, why some places have been able to see a return to natural life quicker then here?
- Dame Starlest, Local Environmental Report (3rd Era, 289)
It’s a funny thing, collapsing from exhaustion. No matter how many times it happened, it never got any better. You woke up with a pounding headache and a sense of disorientation. Erec was familiar enough with the morning after an exhaustion collapse to guess what happened. The sensation of keeling over after pushing himself too hard wasn’t a new one to him. Though the mist and the odd hallucinations before it had been. Now though, he wasn’t still outside, rotting away to the sun.
Truly, some part of him expected he might have been. That could have been part of the challenge—waking up, utterly spent, and having to deal with the fifth day.
But no, he was in a cozy bed. One with a plush pillow; no IV. And he wasn’t alone either, Garin and Colin were there as well. Both of them still knocked out.