<< I have recently been reading information about the Gurkha's & how they came
to have the current relationship with the UK, I was reading about the Gurkha
wars in India & wondered if Teshnos suffered a similar occurence from groups
of Shan Shan tribes raiding into there territory? I can picture bands of
Tiger Hsunchen getting together to raid the decadent Teshnans.>>
I have no doubt that the Shan Shan Hsunchen do raid their neighbours with some frequency, and the Tiger people are the most common perpetrators IMO.
<< Armed with Kukri & a tiger they would be more than a match for the average
Teshnan soldier. Is this sort of thing likely to happen?>>
As to the Kukri one has to remember that the 'true' Tiger people are essentially a stone-age culture and only have metal weapons when they've managed to nick some during an earlier raid. They do, on the other hand, have access to tigers, and many of them have appropriately deadly shape-shifting powers as well.
In recent discussions about the tiger hsunchen it was suggested to me that there are bandits in Teshnos and southern Kralorela who claim hsunchen ancestry, and know enough of the rites to be able to practice limited shapeshifting in rather the way that members of the Ancient Beast Societies in Ralios are said to (except with rather more lethal end results). These bandits would have easier access to metal weapons and other equipment, although they don't have the tigers or any real shamans or their side. I'm told this has links with RW myths about weretigers.
A 'What My Mother Told Me' write-up for tiger hsunchen should be appearing on my website later this month.
Forward the glorious Red Army!
Trotsky
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