[Glorantha] Imperial bodyguard

 [Adept]
> >I'm guessing the lunar style would be to have seven very skilled people in
> >his bodyguard, the equivalent of heortling clan champions, or something
> >like that.

 [Stephen Tempest]
> A clan champion is the best warrior out of about 400 adults.
> The Red Emperor can choose the best seven warriors out of a population
> of about 5,000,000 adults. That's four orders of magnitude higher...

I don't think the math there holds water. The heortlings are a warlike, heroic people with an emphasis for personal combat prowess. The vast pool of imperial subjects aren't anything like the hill-barbarians of Sartar.

> For what it's worth, in Dragon Pass the counter representing the Red
> Emperor (and entourage) has a combat strength of 4 and magic strength
> of 10 - while a regiment of 1,000 Tarshite fyrdmen has a combat and
> magical strength of 3 each.

No doubt he has a few hundread kick ass infantry (or cavalry) men around him on the battlefield. I was thinking about the more immediate bodyguards.

For some reason I'm thinking mortal soldiers. The emperor's magical prowess is what guards him against supernatural threats.

        -Adept Received on Thu 21 Sep 2006 - 12:37:55 EEST