I remember now, in wauti village (or whatever its called) Elania is yelling at you, accusing you of killing tseng. She really says that tseng is dead and blames you (or maybe it was the snow village) so if the turks thought he was dead, wouldnt he be. I mean according to the movie he loins back up so i cant imagine him waiting so long. unless he crawled to that one nearby village and stayed their till he was completly healed.

now that i think about it, im pretty sure it was the snow village.