> Instead of just speaking to the child, here's a scenario I could imagine causing a feud:
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> Hengist is tending his flocks when he sees Bjorn, a boy from a neighboring and hated clan. He challenges Bjorn, saying Bjorn has no right to be in that pasture.
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> Bjorn responds by insisting that field was part of his clan's Tula a generation ago and so he won't leave.
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> Hengist calls Bjorn a sheep-thief. Bjorn calls Hengist a fool, a coward, and a sheep-lover just like all his clan.
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> Hengist throws a rock and breaks Bjorn's arm. Bjorn runs how and tells his cousin Aethelwulf, who gathers some friends and comes to the field and beats up Hengist, severely injuring him. They leave, taking a sheep with them as compensation for Bjorn's arm.
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> At this point, Hengist goes to his PC relatives and asks them to avenge the injury done to him. Maybe he tells the whole story, or maybe he just says that Aethelwulf
> Injured him and stole a sheep.
> Regardless, there is pressure in the PC's to injure Aethelwulf or get a couple sheep to compensate for the damages.
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> Andrew E. Larsen
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> On Mar 1, 2013, at 1:08 PM, Zachary Kline zkline_at_eO4nK3fTDzrNZ7r4_NPVJf-1cbkY3oQScwrf3wlzHK3btYTuv-sAD4toflN2EoivJRmSJ_dZzXpqsG6NbCP0.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
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> > Hi ALl,
> > I was brainstorming adventure ideas recently, and stumbled on a combination of some bits from "High Pressure Front," and a dream I had recently which prompt this question. How far do feuding clans tend to take things?
> > My basic notion was for the heroes to get involved when a cottar of their clan, nobody important, was apparently seized from his stead by a few weaponthanes during a raid. I imagined that he might be guilty of the crime of, say, speaking to a child from the feuding clan whilst out tending his sheep, something inconceivable to our modern sensibilities. How far do the Orlanthi views on children preclude this from being a possibility? Is it absurd that a feuding neighbor would take it that far? I'm still not sure what the ultimate explanation behind it might be, but figured something like that would at least be viewed as contrary to Orlanthi notions of honor, if nothing else.
> > Thanks much,
> > Zack.
> >
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