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That morning he frightened me more than anyone or anything had ever scared me, before or since. His powers of prediction turned upside down all that I'd ever learned about prophecy and everything I knew about him. As though by himself he could upset the order that the Infinite had imposed upon the universe.—Personal Accounts of Events before the Fall, by Keeping Track.
The bandits of Howling Gale were primarily Westerners from that Empire's northern deserts. When the faction led by the large bandit failed in 9307 to gain control of the Western Empire, a b****y and merciless civil war resulted. Howling Gale and his allies expatriated themselves northward when it became apparent they had lost. Unlike his fellow expatriate Bucking Stag, whose crimes were financial in nature, Howling Gale
