[Glorantha] Imperial bodyguard

On 9/21/06, Mikko Rintasaari <rintasaa_at_mail.student.oulu.fi> wrote:
> 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.

The Solar (now Lunar?) civilisation seems pretty militaristic! It must have some warlike heroism going on if it is able to become, and more or less remain, known as an Empire.

I'm not sure of the "actual" comparative demographics but I'd always got the impression that the big cities of the Empire had a *lot* of people in them; this would allow a fairly large segment of the population to be specialised into military endeavours. Percentage-wise it might be smaller than that of the Sartarites (although I would be *extremely* skeptical about this since the Empire has been involved in serious warfare while the Sartarites seem mostly to have had it comparatively easy until the invasion) but it would end up as a numerically greater pool due to the larger population.

Whether or not the mass of these forces can be brought to bear in one place is something of a different matter (given the size of the Empire) but that should not stop the Lunar Emperor being able to select some pretty impressive bodyguards.

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