The Book of Deceive
7 kilometers) from Segwaren’s castle at Kaihon.
The exact number of soldiers in Halstern’s army is unknown. The contemporary records do not give reliable figures; some Hereninn sources give 400,000 to 1,200,000 men on Halstern’s side. The Draumet sources generally give very low figures for Halstern’s army, perhaps to make the Draumet defeat seem less devastating. Recent historians have suggested figures of between 5,000 and 13,000 for Halstern’s army at Kaihon, and most recent historians argue for a figure of 7,000–8,000 Draumet troops. These men would have been a mix of the Fird and housecarls. Few individual Draumetmen are known to have been at Kaihon; about 20 named individuals can reason
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