Chapter 4, Saunders Coleson:
The longer Saunders studied the mosaics decorating the temple walls, the more information he learned from them. I was like a how-to manual pictured in small colored stone.
One panel next to the entrance showed the creatures that destroyed Alegria’s home-hold. The scene showed an army battling the monsters. The colors and the material used seemed to show different styles of fighting. A huge army was depicted, the insects in amongst the fallen men. Bows and arrows littered the bodies of the dead. That was simple: Saunders had firsthand experience watching the fall of the home-hold and the ineffective use of bows against the onslaught.
The next scene showed a band of fighters armed with swords larger than he had ever seen. More like polearms than blades he was
