Orlanthi

From: Peter Metcalfe <P.Metcalfe_at_student.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 13:23:54 +1200


Orlanthi Resistance:

With regards to the suggested Lunar Reprisals for harming a patrol, I am reminded that for Judea 1st Century CE, most of the deaths from political ('Romans, go home!') ends were caused by fanatics killing the moderates rather than fanatics killing the romans. A similar pattern of resistance would exist in Sartar IMO. So instead of trying to kill the Lunar Governer, rebels would be better off killing somebody like Gringle Goodsell and looting his shop.

David Boatright:


>If the Lunar occupation of Sartar had lasted longer then I am sure
>they would have got around to the atrocities that [Pam] site.

I doubt it. The enormities that the Pelorians suffered were inflicted by enemies who had Age Old Grudges. I do not believe that the Lunars are capable of _hating_ the Orlanthi to that degree even if they do worship the Murdering God.

>...the once free peasants once ran the hill choosing thier own
>fate. During the summer thay could up stakes and go adventuering.
>Now the only thing [the Sartarite Peasants] would proably
>get to in the summer was trek of in some empire sponsred pilgramges,
>you know a bit like the staged street shows in Norht Korea.

I don't think this is the case. It would require a cumbersome bureacracy to enforce and even the Lunars aren't that powerful.

>But thier attentions in Sartar is to replace the culture and
>culture is what defines the Orlanthi. I am not sure but in the later
>stages did the Empire not outight ban the Orlanthi cult.

Well, banning organized worship of Orlanth would only _civilize_ the Sartarites. The Godis are responsible for human sacrifice, thanic head-hunting and beastiality (to improve the flock) as well many other unsavoury practices. These customs have been _documented_ by the many scholars in the Lunar Heartlands so to doubt that they have occured is _inconcievable_! By stamping out Orlanth worship, we can rescue the wretched sartarite from the life of abject misery.

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