Now that I'm home (for a litle while at least) and have access to my library..
I'm not going to bother to read the 1000+ messages this group have generated (in what, twoo weeks or so?!?), so what I'm about to type may have been done to death wiothout me seeing it...
I seem to remember seeing a note that perhaps Broyan didn't like women at the sige, or got into a fight with them, or something like that, accounting for the dearth of Ernaldan and other Earth types in the files so far written.
I think this is just plain *wrong*, and bad, and Broyan would have to be the all-time absolute idiot bone-head commander to have doen it.
What can the Ernaldans do for us?
Grow food
Store food
Shore up walls weakened by Siege magic/engines
Create escape tunnels
Dig wells down to the aquifer
Provide support for the troops (get your minds out of the gutter... okay,
*that* way too)
Eliminate the threat of flying troops, giving Orlanthi Flyboys control of
the air
Keep peace between different groups of defenders
Make (and eliminate) sally ports to allow the defenders out to engage in
raids against the enemy
Provide Healing
Put up ad-hoc barricades/pits in front of advancing forces
Destroy earthworks in the enemy camp
While All-mother isn't really useful at a siege, Healer and Queen both have very powerful magics that can make or break a siege.
Of course, the Lunars have access to Red-Earth Alliance EarthQueen types of their own, leading to titanic battles beneath the earth.
RR
It is by my order and for the good of the state that the bearer of this has
done what he has done.
- Richelieu
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