"Count Wrynn, I'm sorry. The situation changed too quickly, and we couldn't bring your Expeditionary Legion back."
The war in the Sam Plane had cost Odyssey City-State and Zaun City-State dearly, and they had gained nothing.
After returning from the great retreat, the leaders of both city-states sent people to console the families who had taken part in the war.
An envoy from the Noble Council of Odyssey City-State came to Kurd City to apologize to Medivh.
The Expeditionary Legions of the other families had all made it back during the retreat, unless they had been wiped out in the first landing battle.
Only the Wrynn Family's Skeleton Legion had been trapped deep in the Spore Jungle and failed to withdraw.
Medivh had answered the city-state's call with enthusiasm and committed a large force to the war in the Sam Plane. In the end, only tens of thousands of human soldiers had evacuated alongside the Church of Light, while all five million skeletons had gone missing. The losses were devastating.
"Who could have guessed the Spore Jungle would be so terrifying!"
Medivh joined in the lament.
In truth, the Wrynn Family had suffered no losses. They were working with the Spore Queen to develop the Sam Plane.
Odyssey City-State had suffered a crushing defeat. This was no time to gloat or rub it in, so Medivh immersed himself in grief and expressed his indignation over the Skeleton Legion's disappearance.
The Skeleton Legion had gone missing because Odyssey City-State had chosen the wrong landing site. At another location, they would surely have been able to join up with the city-state's main force and escape the Sam Plane.
Odyssey's commanders knew this. They had come to apologize to Medivh as soon as they returned from the retreat.
No one could win every