[Blog] The Burrower Wars Part III: Life of Keres

[Havard]

Possibly the Burrowers (a bit like the Egg of Coot) have various grades of "awakwness" and Keres woke them up to a decent (but not full) grade, then they slowly went back to "sleep" across few centuries.
If it was a war of conquest of Keres + Burrowers + Qullans against "the rest of the world", it would have been pretty short (no more than few years, not centuries for sure), unless the rest of the word has comparable weapons and strength...

I was thinking some more about this.

From how I understand canon sources on the matter, the Immortals intervened and put the Burrowers to sleep.

However, your questions did lead me to think about the process leading up to that point. Perhaps Khoronus' action wasn't what ended the war. Rather, with the mind link between Keres and the Burrowers gone, each Burrower began working towards its own agenda.

So instead of having two sides to the conflict, you would now have multiple groups, each following the direction of different Burrowers. Also, not everyone fell prey to the Burrowers, so you could have individual tribes suddenly going insane and be defeated, only to have a new group go crazy a few years later?

This way, the whole thing would seem much more like an arbitrary series of events over a few violent centuries, unless you knew that the Burrowers were behind it all?

-Havard