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Good try, but unfortunately wrong.
The "creature unknown" is quite important there (since it brought "them" doom!), and it is only one creature, really, not any collective label for a group. Also, it was unknown - that's also very, very, very, very important - the Easterlings, after all, were known to the others. Their treachery was unknown (or rather: unforseen; at the moment it really came to be, it of course became, and thus was, known even to the betrayed ones).
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