Honestly, English isn't my mother language and I don't understand what you mean with your fridge logic & cie O___o anyway, I agree about Aleroth; I would have wanted to help to clean the area, and save the citizens, and meet people you already cross earlier in the game,... I was very disapointed when discovering how little was the only city.
About Rivertown, if you ask the question to Kali before the fight, she tells they destroyed the way.
