I think on the contrary, that Rathorela is rather isolated from much outside contact, and certainly that very few of the 1 million Rathori will have even _met_ someone from outside their forest. It's only been freed from the Ban about 25 years, and "wandering into huge tracts of virgin forest" is not a popular pastime in Fronela, or anywhere else, really.
> As a matter of fact, I propose that this mercenaries, subjected to
> outsiders' influences, are the reason why the rathori are such a group of
> advanced hsunchen.
In what sense are they "advanced"? So far as I know the Rathori are fairly "generic" hsunchen, which is to say they're culturally "primitives", which is why I find your proposal that they be commonplace fixtures in the region's barbarian and civilised armies so unlikely.
> Keith "him of the random duplicates" does not see cohorts in
> Safelster, which I agree, nor in the KoW, which I disagree with. The KoW
> should, purely by mythical reasons, have at least a sample of all useful
> military formations, tactics and gods available in Glorantha.
And where else in Glorantha is the cohort known, then? Personally, I don't agree with Steve Lieb's objection to this idea on the grounds of their being "feral" (a word which seems singularly inappropriate as applied to a "civilised" culture), but whilst they may be, I don't see any pressing reason why they must be. Which reminds me -- the debate on that topic seems to be getting unduly unpleasant, even by the standards of such sustained flamefests about Very Little. Would _all concerned_ please tone it down a little bit, rather than looking for excuses to conduct a Just Flaming? (I didn't believe in that doctrine when Nick espoused it, either.)
Slainte,
Alex.
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