Why didn't the Stonedowners take the easy way North?

[jacob Raver, sinTempter]

Maybe I'm missing something (which happens frequently-tx to all who have helped me with my ignorance)...

...but why wouldn't the Stonedowners ride the Mithil North...

...does it's waters run from the Southron Mountains, or from Skywier?

[dlbpharmd]

...but why wouldn't the Stonedowners ride the Mithil North...

Not sure what you're asking. The Mithil does indeed run north, as Covenant, Linden and Sunder demonstrated in TWL.

[rdhopeca]

...but why wouldn't the Stonedowners ride the Mithil North...

Not sure what you're asking. The Mithil does indeed run north, as Covenant, Linden and Sunder demonstrated in TWL.

It runs from the Southwest (where it joins with the Black, I think) to the Northeast, towards Andelain.

I am not sure which Stonedownors you are referring to specifically.

[jacob Raver, sinTempter]

Oh, sorry: in LFB.

Atiaran goes alone, number one, which is a little unrealistic considering this is the prophesied white gold wielder. She also walks all the way to Andelain instead of riding a raft up the Mithil.

[Seven Words]

Atiaran and Trell (I think) mentioned this...in the exodus from the Ritual of Desecration, the Lillilanrill wood-lore was not useful due to lack of trees, and was thus lost to the Stonedownors. They lack the lore to ask the trees for the raft, and they WOULDN'T simply cut some down just to make their journey easier. In a crisis, maybe.

[jacob Raver, sinTempter]

Why don't they just ride a floating Stone, duh!

Jeesh, do I have to think of everything?!

[Ur Dead]

Atiaran didn't have stone lore. She used a direction she took when she returned from the Lorestat. That included the use of the waymeets and Soaring Woodhelm.

[jacob Raver, sinTempter]

...it was a joke...

[shadowbinding shoe]

Well, Foamfollower at least knows how to float his stone boat and he's just a bumbling youngling hastening little giant. These Stonedowners are just primitive. But it's to be expected, they live in the far back-rocks of the Land.

[Blackhawk]

I think the reason they didnt take the Mithil was because Atiaran wanted to see Soaring Woodhelvin.

and they had no boat.

[wayfriend]

It may simply be that the Mithil wasn't navigable. It could easily have been too shallow or too rocky or too turbulent. River doesn't equal navigability. Especially near the mountains.

The Mithil was narrow and brisk where the path first joined it, and it spoke with wet rapidity to itself in a voice full of resonances and rumors. But as the river drew toward the plains, it broadened and slowed, became more philosophical in its low, selfcommuning mutter. Soon its voice no longer filled the air. Quietly it told itself its long tale as it rolled away on its quest for the sea.