but those who have plumbed the secrets of the Drudge Citadel Vault know what became of some of the Falatacot.

Huh? I vaguely recalled that vault, but...

...I don't remember a thing about the Falatacot. I went back and watched it again, in light of the Sclavus story, and it still didn't make a lot of sense.

But here is my theory. The women who took Geraine, the king's sickly son, and turned him into undead, were Falatacot. That's a theory, yep, indeed it is. Here's another theory. The King was Falatacot, and made his son sickly. The women were true followers of Asheron, who used what power they had to save king's boy in the only possible way they could: first they had to get him away from the king, then they had to turn him into undead.

Either theory works. That's sort of a problem, isn't it?

I like the vault stories. I like them a lot. Unfortunately, thus far I haven't really been able to link them together, let alone link them with the outside world of Dereth in any meaningful way. Thats fine, its still fairly early in the game's history.

But then they go and post even more stories on their web site, which somehow draw relations between things that, without being told that those relations exist, would not have been linked. In the end, it sorta makes me feel like the guy who reaches the end of a murder mystery without solving the crime, only to discover that there was some "secret" never revealed to the reader and thus the crime was unsolvable with available clues.