raiders

From: Durupt Jean <durupt_at_cc.ec-lyon.fr>
Date: Thu Mar 20 10:06:32 1997

  Hi all,

• - raiders

Many raiders follow a rather simple law: "Everything within my reach that is not nailed to the ground is mine"

Andrew Joelson made a good point in saying that mounted raiders are hard to catch, in fact any raider is hard to catch for a standing army.

The aim of the tactic I described is to keep the valuables out of the raiders' reach. The principle is simple, once the alarm is sounded, everyone goes to the shelters or the hiding places. The fortifications don't need to be expensive, for example if the house are built with stone, they can be built in circle, their gates facing the interior of the village. Or the temple (in Europe it was the church), is reinforced so that it can serve as a stronpoint.

Those fortifications won't stand against invaders, but if the raiders are stupid enough to try to besiege them, the army (in the western, we would say the cavalry) can come to the rescue.

The possibility to catch raiders is only a bonus. And in life, everyone deserves a bonus (Die Hard III, I think).

After a time, when many would-be raiders have come back empty handed or killed, they will stop the raids.

• -nitpicking About the french army mutinies. They happened in 1917 after the Nivelle offensive (the bloodiest two weeks of the war). They lasted 4 days at a maximum, the total number of demonstrators was around 30.000, in a large number of units through. What saved the day was the fact that no front-line unit mutinied.
• -husband protector In the broken council guidebook, the high priest of Elemalus restores the peace among Theyalan tribes. If we call the modern husband-protector Yelmalio, we introduce a difference with Esrolia's neighbours, where the equivalent god is called Elmal. Since Esrolia is earth dominated, I feel we could adopt Yelmalio as husband-protector, here is why:

Argan Agar protector from darkness
Magasta protector from water
Babeester Gor avenging daughter from the earth Yelmalio protector from light
Orlanth protector from air
Urox protector against chaos

Elmal would be too linked to the air, to keep the balance between the other elements.
For me it makes sense.

• -Onslaught In my opinion, Humakt won't send spirits of reprisal against him so long as he doesn't break his geas, doesn't get resurected, doesn't dabble with undeath or other foul sorcery ... The human hierarchy might want to excomunicate him, but if his usefulness outweights the inconveniencies to have him around, they won't.

	Peace
		Jean

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