Why should there be a "Good" Orlanthi? Or a good anything else, really?
It's a war. In a war, bad things happen. Good things can happen as well, but it's mostly bad things. Killing innocents is just another thing that happens. If your side is killing other people, then that's what happens in war, jolly bad show and all that. If the other side is killing your innocents then they are demons from hell and every drop of blood should be avenged.
> 1) Let us assume that I accept the depiction of Kallyr and her
> followers as people who, on occasion, carry out atrocities such as
the
> massacres of the women and children of pro-Lunar clans.
>
> 2) Let us further assume that the player characters in my game are
not
> (yet) influential enough to form their own significant faction in
the
> Rebellion - i.e. they need some sort of sponsor on the level of
> Gryffyr, Orngerin, et. al.
>
> 3) Finally, let us assume that the players in my group do what I
would
> do under the circumstances, and fight against anyone who commits
> atrocities, rather than supporting them for the Greater Good of
> defeating the Lunars.
>
> Given all of these assumptions, which rebel faction should I, as
GM,
> prompt them to join? Who, for example, would take the sponsor role
in
> 'Sheep, Clouds, Thunder'? Elmalandti? Minaryth? Somebody else?
I doubt very much whether a Sartarite faction would exist to fight those who commit war crimes against the Lunars. Indeed, if you fought Kallyr then you would be seen as aiding the Lunars. Yes, I know, things are more comlpicated than that, but the rimourmongering would start and you'd be painted as helping the Lunars.
But, you'd probably join the majority of Sartarites who don't fight in the rebellion and sit at home, hoping that the Lunars don't do a tit-for-tat on you and that Kallyr doesn't decide to treat you as Lunar sympathising scum. After all, if you are not with us you are against us.
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