Reaping Time

From: Greg Stafford <greg@glorantha.com>
Date: Mon 22 Jul 2002 - 20:22:37 EEST

At 05:43 AM 7/22/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Reaping Day is sacred to Durev. What are his householders (initiates
>and devotees) doing in an army?

I'd just like to second this point.
Harvest time was so important in normal times that everyone was out in the fields. To miss the harvest = starvation. It's one of the advantages of a standing army to be able to attack during the harvest season. In short, no one takes people out of the fields in harvest season. Farmers regularly desert the army to go home for harvest. If Durev initiates are in the seige it's got to be because they have no fields of their own to harvest and are hoping to seize some food from the siege to help their starving people.

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