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Spoiler: Start of Darkness
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This is not accurate; Redcloak's story makes it clear that The Dark One creates the Crimson Mantle as a response to learning about the rifts and the Snarl. (pp. 42-43)
It is accurate.
Spoiler: SoD
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Redcloak tells Xykon the first Bearer was killed by the Scribblers before Lirian's Gate was created, and yet Redcloak knows not only about the Rift and the Snarl, but also the Gate which was created later than the Mantle.