You've touched here on something that has been bothering me for a long time.
Slamlander wrote:
pillaroforder wrote:
Unlikely. Santuariel is in the north and close to, if not part of, the Confederacy. We know Confederacy doesn't like Veracia, who attacked them at one point in time, so presence of the church in the Confederacy is unlikely and local church wielding any such power is very much improbable if not impossible. Santuariel still stands until otherwise stated in the comic.
I didn't say that they fell, only that they
may have been attacked. With Ian on their side, how successful do you think it was?
As to location, near as I can recall, Santauriel is close to, and not part of, the Confederacy. This means that they are a part of Veracia.
Actually, we don't know exactly where Santuariel is, but we do know that Salvus is the Northern Confederacy's "gateway" to Veracia, and that Veracia is more easily reached from there than from Santuariel. When
Ian caught his first ride with Riley and Leah, they were heading "down" to Salvus from Santuariel, and said he could probably find "a coach going south to Veracia" and points beyond. Most of the plausible interpretations for that sequence suggest that Santuariel is somewhere north of Salvus, a day's journey or less by wagon (we know that), and most likely within the Confederacy.
Later, Meji also talked about a trade route "down" to Saus from Santuariel, which reinforces the point.
We also know that when Ian was
flying toward Santuariel with Meji, the route from Farrel to Santuariel went over Salvus. Looking at the
map and drawing a straight line from southern Farrel to the Veracia/Confederacy border where Salvus presumably is, and extending that on for some short distance, the obvious conclusion is that Santuariel is either
in the Northern Confederacy or possibly on that unnamed strip of land between the Confederacy and the eastern sea.
Where exactly did you get the idea that Santuariel is not in the Confederacy? I don't see it, except for a reference in the wiki that I don't think has ever been confirmed.