He didn't. I imagine I may have terrified him a bit much on accident.

[ this is icspeak for 'thread was ongoing, oops'. ]

For all I know, one of the wizards who disappeared ran an orphanage, or something. All I can confirm is that if any of the other settlements or villages fell, it wasn't anything he knew about.

[ so that's maybe one thing crossed off the list of where these kids could have come from? still a mystery otherwise. ]