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Chapter 221 - The Cost

The Green Accord War ended on Day 204 with Morglith's death and began again — in the form that all wars eventually took — on Day 205, when the survivors started counting.

The kingdom's Temple of Record — the central archive maintained by the Crucible, where births, deaths, marriages, conscriptions, and every other administrative event in the kingdom's history were recorded on sheets of pressed bark-paper stored in climate-controlled vaults — received the final casualty reports from the field armies on Day 220.

Marshal Boreth signed the reports personally. He read each name — all 4,847 of them, one after another, the dead reduced to ink on bark-paper.

[GREEN ACCORD WAR — FINAL CASUALTY REPORT] 

[Duration: 204 days (31 days active combat + 173 days occupation/pursuit)]

[KINGDOM LOSSES:] 

[— KIA: 4,847] 

[— WIA (non-returning to duty): 3,200] 

[— WIA (returned to duty): 5,600] 

[— MIA/Presumed Dead: 112] 

[— Total Military Casualties: 13,759] 

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