After the Purging, when the Ordinaries were banished to the Scorches to protect Ilya from their disease, the king decreed that any remaining Ordinaries found in the kingdom would be executed. Three decades ago, he offered them a chance to survive if they could cross the Scorches and reach the cities of Dor and Tando on the other side where they would be no harm. But the king’s mercy only lasted that day of the Purging, and I now deliver death on his behalf.
So does that mean they are still safe in Dor and Tando? Or when it says his mercy only lasted that day it means that now he just hunts and kills all Ordinaries, no matter where they are from?
