From: Joerg Baumgartner (joe@sartar.toppoint.de)
Date: Thu 23 Jun 1994 - 14:04:29 EEST
Graeme Lindsell
> Of course, the renegade Malkionist Sartar managed to persuade the
> inhabitants of Dragon Pass otherwise, via his Heroquests, and the
> "invasion" is just the northernists reclaiming what was always theirs.
> [Hmmm, nice theory, perhaps I should publish]
Hey, the Malkionist Sartar is copyrighted by me!
> Acutally, I'd tend to play the war in Fronela as is implied in the
> Fronela chapter of G:G Book2 ie a massive assault on Loskalm, with
> Lord Death on a Horse needing to hire hordes of mercenaries but still
> leaving the matter in doubt. I agree with what MOB said on the subject,
> that the north of Loskalm will likely be spared most to the carnage,
> as the direction of the Warlords attack would be towards the South,
> through Junora. If Sog falls, I suspect the Waertegi will try to take
> it and their drydocks back later, though.
King of Sartar tells us (in the grazer section of CHDP) that the Grazer
chieftain Karndaro the Leaper, who came into power after the dragon
devoured the Sartar temple of the Reaching Moon, but whose reign ended
before Dwernapple, had visited Sog once and talked to a Waertagi admiral.
(KoS p.116)
While the text says nothing about the rulers of the surrounding lands,
it seems the Waertagi had taken control of the city at this time, less
than 17 years to the future from 1621's now.
Karndaro's travel was an exotic one, though - on p.227 it is stated
that his steed carried him from mountaintop to mountaintop to the dwarf
city of Nida (and probably on to Sog).
> The write-up of Harrek also implies that the Kingdom of War is
> basically Lord Death on a Horse's effort; that if he died, so would
> the KoW. Loskalm on the other hand would seem to be able to replace a
> leader at pretty short notice.
You never know if there isn't someone waiting in the shadow to take over. When Philip of Macedon and Friedrich-Wilhelm of Prussia died, everyone expected a period of weakness to follow. The rest is history.
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-- Joerg Baumgartner joe@sartar.toppoint.de
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