Most of the surviving bandits didn't have a lot of information - they were refugees from Numeria, or elsewhere in the River kingdoms, coming from dozens of little holds and hiding out in the Slough or the plains west and north of the swamps. For the most part, their entire groups had been swept up in this raid - they didn't have much in the way of other contacts, as most of them were now dead or scattered from the battle that just took place. They'd give up anything they did know, but the usefulness of said information was questionable, at best.<br/><br/>There were definitely complaints about the idea of slogging through an enormous swamp, in the freezing season - one wrong step, and your leg is coated in freezing mud. Rather, once the situation was fully dealt with, locally, and an extra detachment was ordered to both this location, and any other cities on the western border, the advisors planned to return home, to begin determining what more they could, about this region.<br/><br/>Unfortunately, not much information was available - Fort Drelev was a small holding, with few people and little wealth; most of it came from river trade with Pitax. Why they'd think it was a good idea to assault their kingdom was an open question.