and as similar stories grew in number and ghastliness , feeres everywhere began to dread another , ancient rumour , which said that the disaster hadnt entirely erased all realms beyond waste valley , but that pockets of people had survived , and that during the long centuries of poverty , hunger and disease theyd been made to suffer , they dreamt of one day joining forces and going to war , to avenge the vanished kingdoms which had been so cruelly abndonded by the rest of feerien .