I'm in the middle of playing this out. My players are in the middle of the winter. I realised that in my game there isn't a die-off as it's a magical winter. The people and animals are going to sleep as has Ernalda. The players don't realise this of course as I'm describing them as having frozen to death. Everyone who "dies" is quickly covered by the ice including the animals. It should make voria's return all the more exciting. There will be damage, steads crushed by the weight of ice, some older people don't wake as they stay in the embrace of ernalda. There will be some flooding as the ice melts, areas next to the upland marsh will become a bit wetter for a while. But then the grand order will be restored. I plan to have it all back to normal just after the following sacred time.
The Lunarised clans don't do so bad as they aren't freezing. The lunars themselves have holed up (it says).
YGWV On 12 Mar 2007, at 04:17, Michael Hitchens wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, ttrotsky2 wrote:
>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The Battle's magical importance, in reactivating Orlanthi magic, is
>> hard
>>> for me to underestimate. It doesn't imply depopulation
>>
>> No, but the Fimbulwinter that preceded it does imply quite large
>> scale
>> depopulation to me. I suspect that was what Jane was referring to.
>
> I knowthat the Fimbulwinter was meant, sorry if I wasn't clear.
> I'm just
> not sure that it implies a large scale depopulation - to me it
> implies an
> averted depopulation. I think it talks about isolated groups
> deaths and
> large scale pressure, but it was a crisis that the cast majority
> survived,
> thanks to the Battle of Iceland.
>
> Which might also explain, if you wanted it to, the lack of notice
> in KoS.
> the Battle averted the depopulation, so the depopulationdidn;t
> happen, so
> there was nothing to report, except for a samll battle Argrath
> wasn't at.
> So it wasn't reported.
>
> Michael
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