From: Alex Ferguson (abf@interzone.ucc.ie)
Date: Tue 15 Apr 1997 - 16:44:21 EEST
Nick Brooke synopsises and theorises nimbly about Black Horse County.
> IMG, they are Safelstran (i.e. Italian Renaissance) Arkati (i.e. Stygian
> Heretic) Humaktish types.
I quite like the idea of them being Safelstran (appropriately Decadent,
anyway), but I wonder what this implies about their history. Did
Alan Rick-- err, Sir Ethilrist wander through Ralios into the Lunar
Empire at some point, or might he have come through Fronela before
the Closing... Just "Muse"ing, no real theory here (yet).
> It may be that this land was barren and
> uninhabited when the Red Emperor granted it to Sir Ethilrist: remember that
> this gift is explicitly compared to the grant of forested and inhospitible
> Erigia to the Char-Un -- see endquote (1).
It could mean that, but it seems to be more direct evidence that it was
_hostile_ territory of some sort. A bit like making someone Duke of
Cornwall, when someone you dislike is currently it's _King_, if you will.
Perhaps not, as in Panishi's case, lots of ravening green elves, but
maybe some noxious hill barbarians, or some sort of horsemen enclave?
Blackly,
Alex.
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