Re: Assassins

From: Mikko Rintasaari <mikrin_at_...>
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 02:40:42 +0200 (EET)

>I said
> >PS. Personally I'm not fond of the idea that the empire has half a dozen
> >compeating "intelligence organizations". This sounds very modern to me,
> >and not in the spirit of Glorantha (or our history either) as I
> >understand it.

Peter writes:
> Intelligence organizations go a long way back. The Mauryas
> of India had a secret police organization, Hadrian had
> _frumentarii_ who went around digging up dirt on important
> romans while the Byzantines had a "Bureau of Barbarians".
> They are simply an organized version of informers and
> undercover agents.

I agree totally. It's just the idea of_several_ of these compeating in the Empire that I don't like.

        -Adept