title: Darien: The Death and Rebirth of a Southern Town
author: Spencer B. III King
description: The fire which consumed the Georgia Town of Darien, a small but prosperous village at the mouth of the Altamaha River, on a fateful June day in 1863 when Negro soldiers put the torch to it was the tangible expression of an uncontrolled hate which enveloped the entire nation.
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  ## Epilogue
  
  
  
  
  
  Ulric never returned to Dros Delnoch. After defeating Jahingir in a pitched
  battle at Gulgothir Plain, he took his army to invade Ventria, but collapsed
  from the flux and died. The tribes fled back to the north, and without his
  influence Nadir unity was broken. Civil war came once more to the north, and
  the people of the rich southlands breathed again.
  
  
  
  
  
  Rek was welcomed as a hero in Drenan, but soon tired of the city life and
  returned with Virae to Delnoch. Their family grew over the years, with three
  sons and two daughters. The sons were Hogun, Orrin and Horeb. The daughters
  were Susay and Besa. Grandfather Horeb brought his family fiom Drenan to
  Delnoch, taking over the inn of the traitor Musar.
  
  
  
  
  
  Orrin returned to Drenan and resigned from the army. His uncle Abalayn retired
  from public life and Magnus Woundweaver was elected to lead the Council. He
  chose Orrin as his deputy.
  
  
  
  
  
  Bowman remained at Delnoch for a year, then travel