From: Jane Williams (janewill@mail.nildram.co.uk)
Date: Tue 01 Jul 1997 - 22:19:51 EEST
Richard Melvin coins a new (and very worrying!) word:
>Subject: Janed
Re. Argrath's summoning of the Brown Dragon:
>All I can say in my defense is that she may be historically correct, but
>my version is mythically correct, and I'll only believe otherwise when
>_she_ manages to summon a dragon...
He is of course absolutely correct. Mythically, ie. from a viewpoint so
far in the future that the events of 1625 are myth, it is generally
believed that it was Argrath who summoned the Dragon. History has been
changed. And without benefit of HQ, either (unless some of my wilder
theories turn out to have some truth behind them): just the great magical
power of Propaganda.
Is this something that should be added into our theories of magical
support for HQs, and the effect of support on Traits? If you want to do a
HQ for which you will need a Valour of 25+, you don't need to go out and
do brave (read: suicidal) things. What you need to do is hire some good
bards, and send them round to the chaps you're going to be using as
support. Get them convinced of your heroic bravery (watch out for those
Truth cultists!) and the heroplane is your mollusc of choice.
Note that according to the "Report on the Orlanthi" in KoS, bards are
high status: just below Thanes, and above Weaponthanes. This could
explain why.
Jane Williams jane@williams.nildram.co.uk
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~janewill/gloranth/index.shtml
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