The Zuma cleared some of the rogues, yes, and probably are the reason we managed to survive. That doesn't mean, however, that there weren't still a buttload of rogues spawning and that we were fighting tooth and nail for our survival for several RL months, if not over a year (plus D'Hara's constant food shortages for a few more years). The menace of the rogues was a key factor in the creation of the 'moot, as can be clearly seen in the Treaty of the Maroccidens.
Everguard probably had it worst, indeed.
But then again, they were !@#$%^&s to everyone, claimed the entire western continent for themselves, and bullied Caerwyn into relocating. No surprise they never had any allies to help them.
that was all the player of the arylon family... trust me, we moderated him somewhat. The Caerwyn thing was a great piece of sabre rattling when we were nearly in shambles though.
No they did not. The Zuma defended their own territory, so that relatively little monster spawn wandered over from Zuma lands to ours. But they did not clear out monsters in our territory or in the rogue lands near us.
I meant the Zuma were right there. In the North we had the Nifel peninsula spewing monsters to Morek and Valkyrja, the dark mountains dropping down towards Eidulb and Gelene and the north plains hordes sweeping around doing whatever they want. Many an order back in the day was hold in Gelene and Valkyrja until the monsters leave.
The Zuma monster grinder did wonders for protecting Terran and Barca. Even if they didn't actively patrol Terran lands, no monster spawn came out of Zuma lands, and any monsters that wandered into there never came back. Realms like Astrum and Niselur didn't have any of that advantage. All those realm-kiling packs we saw the Zuma beating up? Well, everyone else had to deal with them ourselves. I'm not saying that Terran and Barca didn't have to struggle against monsters, but you have to give the Zuma quite a bit of credit for sweeping things clear, even if it was passive.
Imagine what it was like in the north when even more of it was unconquered, and the monster spawn rate wasn't reduced. I think the most i saw in a region was 14k, the general basically said "let's hope they're not hungry" and they split up
Yea, the Zuma beat down realm-killing sized hordes by us. But then again, such hordes simply didn't spawn in the North. Large hordes spawned, for sure. But the very large hordes were rare and mostly stuck around the mountains. And the Zuma didn't clear all of the large hordes either.
And if they removed a few rogue threats, they compensated plenty by sending their own armies against us on multiple occasions.
see above post, huge 8-11k hordes did attack everguard a few times. we simply turtled up and hoped they would leave, then reconquered lost lands. Biggest to attack Gelene was 6-7k? Aquitain got simply manhandled, as did the Shrine.
