The Returning Contrasting Regions Quotes

Here Mam reacts to hearing that Lord Ryuu eats snails as a delicacy. The Downlanders think this is pretty gross, and it's just one of the ways we hear about how different those crazy Uplanders are.

Yikes—Cam's imagination moves quickly from garden to gore. He tries to give us a sense of what the war was like by telling us there were loads of Uplanders, but we later learn that the two sides were almost evenly matched.

Hmm… Cam describes the Uplanders as practically being a different species. Yet even here it seems to dawn on him that they are really no different from him or any other Downlander—they are all just human.