Julian Lord:
>They must have controlled Donali and Tallcastle too, in the good old days :
Tallcastle
>is actually a bit of an oddity. A Trader Prince's fort in the middle of an
Aldryami
>forest to control local human barbarians ? It must have a very interesting
backstory !
>
>My theory for this place is that it was originally *grown* by the Aldryami
as their
>own stronghold against the Traders, but they lost it.
Could it not be the other way around? The Trader Princes set it up to
control the border with the Forest and protect their local human underlings.
When the Opening happened, Tallcastle was one of the first things to be
sacrificed and the Aldryami took advantage of he situation, growing the
Forest rapidly to push out the humans.
Chris Lemens