And what did they do without knowing it
Dying
By dying they did something without knowing it
Belarion did not yet have such mentality of sacrificing his men.
To the eyes of men like Belarion, these soldiers are more than just soldiers.
Most of Belarion commander, captains and subdivision leaders are all people of the Brolgadhr tribe
To him, they were family. They were comrades. And Belarion as their leader should make sure that he could protect them
He would never have let his men suffer such death. Aeryon also possess such mentality but he also could in times of choices, made the choices that are cold.
He would blame himself but at the same time certain things must be done. Though Aeryon yet never reached that point, maybe someday he would face such a choice.
At that time, even he would not know what he would choose.
However, there is some kind of destiny at play here
