#rheddig

I was looking through the archive entries. And specifically, in the archive entry titled "Remnants of the Rheddig", there was a picture of a tattered war banner.

We know that the Purge of Rheddig involved the Athian armies hunting down and killing any remaining Rheddig in Athia, "soldiers and civilians alike," as stated in the lore. This meant no taking prisoners of war and no Rheddig refugees remaining...as there'd be no Rheddig left alive in Athia.

That makes me wonder what Tanta Prav's ethics and code of justice were during the war with the Rheddig to permit such a purge. However, I also know this is set in a Middle Ages-like era, where modern concepts of wartime ethics aren't guaranteed to exist.

I've been thinking about the bad ending lately and how it's interesting to think about what Cuff would do after his vengeance on the Athians is finally exacted.

And this made me think about Cuff just being left alone in the dust and rubble of Cipal. And how only sometime later does he finally receive a Rheddig visitor in the form of a lone Rheddig person washed up on Athia's shores from a shipwreck. There's no war party arriving on the shores or celebrations, only this one unwitting visitor by pure happenstance.