From: TTrotsky@aol.com
Date: Fri 28 Nov 1997 - 22:24:11 EET
Sergio:
<< The connection between broos and goats would be seen as an infestation
In practical terms, I think that would be rather difficult. It would be a
<< If they suspected that broos had already infested the goats they would
No, the best way to avoid the problem is to kill the goats. It's much
and a sickness. If orlanthings noticed broo activity onthe surroundings,
they would certainly protect more carefuly their goat stocks.>>
lot easier to do without the goats. While goats are good for milk, meat and
sometimes wool, these are all things you can get from other animals. So you
don't actually *need* to keep goats if they are more trouble than they're
worth - as they will be if they have the habit of dropping little baby broos
around after them.
kill them. But the best way to avoid the problem is by killing the broos
first. >>
easier to kill a goat than a broo. While it doesn't prevent you from being
marauded by sheep-broo and cattle-broo, there will be less of them overall
which is a big help for what is (in the long term) relatively little effort
on your part.
Given the loathing that broos/chaos incite in Orlanthi culture, it seems
difficult to believe that anything which obviously helps their numbers
increase would be treated at all generously. Given that Orlanthi do keep
goats, and Odayla even has a Command Goat spell, I suspect that any link
between broo and caprines must be weak enough that the advantages a goat has
over cattle and sheep (mostly their ability to survive on much rougher
terrain) outweighs it.
I agree with Nick that there is a mythical or folklore link, but that
this is not sufficient to give Orlanthi anything to worry about. Some clans
may refuse to keep goats, but those in the highlands will be pragmatic enough
to keep their herds when they don't face any increased broo predation as a
result.
If it *is* a universal truth then those Zarkosite goat-herding nomads
from eastern Peloria were obviously a dodgy lot...
Forward the glorious Red Army!
Trotsky (who grew up on a goat farm...)
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