"The widespread martial law and heavy religious taxes led many to abandon their lands and become refugees, fleeing south to seek opportunities to reach Kapuka or Rodell — the only chance for the escapees. But more froze to death on the migration route, with only a few who didn't wish to die, banding together to resist the oppressive rule of the Crow's Claw Sanctuary. Some Invokers who had suffered during the first phase at the hands of the Crow's Claw Sanctuary, unwilling to tolerate the Sanctuary's actions, joined these people. This is the origin of the 'refugees'."
Fang Hong listened with his mouth agape; he never imagined that in the year since he left Traveler's Rest, there had been such drastic changes in the Northern Territory. Or to put it bluntly, a decay — if Shaya's words were true, the rise of the Crow's Claw Sanctuary brought disaster to the entire Tarun, not vitality.
"Has no one on the community ever talked about this?"
