From: Joerg Baumgartner (joe@sartar.toppoint.de)
Date: Wed 17 Nov 1993 - 16:48:20 EET
John Medway in X-RQ-ID: 2321
>> The Lunar leader could be Fazzur Wideread, not featured in the Dragon Pass
>> ...
>> incident, but since we know that Fazzur was punished for a previous
>> failure, this might have been it.
>Nope. I just looked his bio up ( WF #12, pp. 16-17 ).
>"Fazzur was in command of the regiment which invaded in a feint through
>the Hendreiki lands in 1605. At the same time the main Lunar Army attacked
>Esrolia and was defeated by the Building Wall of the Pharaoh. Fazzur pushed
>aside the defenders and laid waste to the land but was recalled when the
>main army was defeated. He was heard to complain, afterwards, that he could
>have marched all the way to Karse is he had been allowed."
Thanks for the insight and reference.
>Maybe Fazzur should have been there! He might have pulled it off.
>I thought that his fall was connected with:
> 1) The siege of Whitewall dragging on too long, and
> 2) The Cradle "Incident"
The previous failure is mentioned in KoS p.145f, and was before 1613. Maybe his loud complaining (which may have insulted some of the leaders of the main attack).
Whitewall had fallen when Fazzur was relieved from the command, and the
Cradle incident cost Sor-eel's post, not Fazzur's.
"At Orlanth's High Holy Day, while the Lunar party [to celebrate the
extermination of Orlanth worship] was only 11 weeks old, trouble began.
King Broyan of the Volsaxi [...] appeared at the city of Bullflood with
a household of heroic companions. They told their tale [...].
Assassins, troops, and traitors who were sentto dispatch Broyan all
failed.
In the spring of 1622 the army of Heortland mustered to oppose the
Lunar forces of occupation. A coup in Esrolia also pulled the Lunar
sympathizers from power, and teh moon temple which had been begun was
broken into pieces. Furthermore the lands of Queen Hendira [a Lunar
sympathizer among the Esrolian queens) were plundered, and the temples
there were also destroyed.
[...] The emperor was especially disapointed by events in Kethaela,
which ruined one of his parties. The command sought a scapegoat, and
Fazzur was relieved from his command."
>We need someone else to get mopped up by the Esrolians.
So it was Euglyptus the Fat who was tricked by the Pharaoh's (exotic, in DP terms) magic.
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-- Joerg Baumgartner joe@sartar.toppoint.de
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