Nick Eden asks, wrt LoT:
>The elf asked about Gbaji apparantly said what he said in 173ST,
>which is well before Gbaji. So when did he really say it.
The page proofs say 1173 S.T.
Re: when it's right to disobey orders
I once wrote a review of a book called _Air Force Spoken Here_, for a now-defunct journal called Best Sellers. It's a bio of the Army Air Corps general who commanded U.S. air forces in the Mediterranean during WWII. I criticized the general in my review for having taken part in the bombing of Monte Casino, which was 1) militarily counter-productive and 2) morally indefensible, given the civilians and art treasures there. The general knew 1) and 2), but did it anyway because he was ordered to. I also criticized the author for trying to spin that event.
Well, the author of AFSH wrote me a letter, I replied, and we kept at it for a while. He took it right personal that I had criticized his hero. He invoked the Nuremburg defense ("He was just following orders"), but I knew I had really won the argument when he resorted to ad hominem attacks.
Now back to your regularly scheduled Glorantha:
The Humakti code of warfare? I'll take a stab at the Sartarite
Humakti code:
1) Do not attack from ambush.
2) Always accept an enemy's surrender [unless the enemy is
chaotic].
3) Do not take more from the civilians than you need, unless
sacking a settlement. [Pretty radical, huh?] Only sack a
settlement when ordered to.
4) Obey all orders which do not require disloyalty to the King.
re: Stephen Stair's blasphemy roulette: LOL.
End of Glorantha Digest V1 #177
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