fallsfromtrees wrote:Tonto Silerheels wrote:EdThomas wrote:
4. We don't know how much Hanth knows other than a honking big Army went west to the retake Ft Tairys.
I'm working from memory here, so please forgive me if I make even more mistakes than usual.
I'm going to assume that you meant east, rather than west, since Ft. Tairys is east-northeast of Thesmar.
I believe that Hanth has sources of information of which we are not aware. He certainly broke out of Thesmar at an ideal time. That suggests that he either has sources of information, an excellent sense of military timing, or the luck of the...well people who have excellent luck. His enemies concluded that he should have good information predicated on Charis's control of the seas. It wouldn't take much for someone to travel south Ft. Sandfish (or to Ft. Darymahn) to give information to someone on a galleon, and for that information to travel from there to Thesmar.
~Tonto
IIRC, both Eastshare and Hanth are in semaphore communication with the capital. It would be surprising indeed if summary copies of Eastshare's reports hadn't found their way into Hanth's hands via perfectly normal means.
Slight nit. I think that Hanth's communications are a bit more tenuous/slow than that - ship/semaphore I think.
I'm not sure where the nearest working semaphore line to Siddar starts, but there is text ev that Temple Loyalists had been in control of the lines in South March lands e.g. Fort Darymahn - where they were tricked, by a dummy seige, into sending messages to somewhere else [can't remember who].
Of course that may have changed, but I'd suspect that the South March line towers would be in a poor state + probably unmanned. Hanth's couriers might have to sail as far as Eralth in Trokanos to find the nearest line - so several thousand miles to cover!
So message time would be days/weeks for Hanth as opposed to hours for Eastshare.