RE: pigeons

From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_...>
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 19:48:10 +0100


> Somehow message pigeons don't seem Orlanthi; Rinliddi, maybe,
> since they are a Birdy culture, but Orlanthi would probably
> send a message on the wind or via alynx instead.

Could be. Maybe the Elmali, though....?

> How about pigeons as spies inside the walls? or Lunar
> collaborators using pigeons to send messages back to their
> camp? (You'd have to amend the whole "pigeon homing" ability
> to send them back to a priest of the Homing Pigeon cult
> instead of back to Glamour or Mirin's Cross...).

Yep! Or some more colourful bird than a pigeon? Canaries? Some parrot-like thing, that can "speak"?

> Once the spy
> ring is exposed, there's a massive pigeon extermination
> program, ...

And after that's over, we're back to eating chickens again! Flightless, more or less. This is very important.

BTW, do any Orlanthi have hunting hawks? I have an idea there's one in fiction somewhere.. Widow's Tale?

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