Blackhawk1969 wrote: i dont think all knowledge went out of the land..the new lords had only remnants of what was...so someone had to still be practicing the lore
The way I understood it was that the people regained knowledge of Kevin's Lore only because the Giants brought the First Ward with them. If that hadn't happened, I assume the people would still have been just scraping by on the barest lore that had allowed them to survive in the mountains or wherever. So I think knowledge
was wiped out in the Land for all intents and purposes. The Forestals had knowledge, of course, but forget about them sharing any of it with the silly humans. (At any rate, Forestal knowledge probably wouldn't have been applicable in any meaningful way to humans.)
..and wouldnt Revelstone itself be protection from the desecration so long as it wasnt happening inside Revelstone itself? i dont remember any slagged walls from heat..and the Giants still thought it was a work of art..desecration would have done some major damage to the intricacies of Revelstones face & tower making it unreadable..lots of places to hide in the deep gutrock passageways.
People may be safe from the RoD were they to hide in Revelstone, but I think the Keep would become one gigantic coffin for them. Once the food stores run out, that's the end. They couldn't go outside - assuming the very air was made foul by the RoD, the people would have suffocated on it.
I think some (maybe many) of us are getting to the point of painting the Ritual as being not quite all-out devastation, and that's understandable. When we encounter the Land for the first time in LFB, the realm has already been greatly healed (albeit with sore spots), so it's hard to picture exactly how awful or widespread the Desecration was. The only thing we have to go on is that little bit of post-Ritual vision Covenant gets of the Land during Lena's speech. I assume SRD declines to go into specifics about Kevin's RoD because he feels it's unnecessary to the story, but obviously a lot of inquiring Chronicles minds want to know. It's like mentioning that the 20th century had two world wars but then saying very little else about them. What? Wait! Back up for a minute!
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