horali

From: Durupt Jean <durupt_at_cc.ec-lyon.fr>
Date: Thu Mar 20 10:06:38 1997


 Hi all

About the horali

The death they fear is their final death. Usually if they have an accidental death, a zzaburi can heal or restore the link between the body and the soul. Because of this possibility, their training is as harsh as possible.
The only final death is death by aging or in their caste if their body stays on the battlefield. A brithini army has two objectives, to win the battle and to bring back the bodies for resurection.

About the iron dwarves

They are more innovative than the horali, but if they die it is the end. It is possible too that the typical iron dwarf is not very flexible, if he was trained/programmed as a swordman he may not be able to use a musket at all.
So if the dwarves find a new weapon, they have to build new iron dwarves to use it.

On the battlefield both armies are terrifying. They have very tough soldiers who can faultlessly use the tactics they were drilled with.
Horali and iron dwarves do not fear death like the other races. A dwarf think of himself as a machine, a horali has a life insurance <g>.

BUT, they have some problems of their own. For the dwarves, they must have the minimum casualties because each iron dwarf killed is forever lost. For the brithini, they must bring back the bodies of all their killed horali or it is death by aging for the commander.
For these reason, brithini and dwarves try very hard not to fight battles they are not certain to win, and avoid like the plague guerilla warfare.
An astute foe can use these problems to his advantages, plus the fact that since the dawn both the brithini tactics and the dwarf tactical limitations are known.

	Peace
		Jean

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