I am amazed! The second time I mail to the digest I get a reply from a guru:
MOB (if you, reader, are not MOB, please be not offended by my lavish
loyalty to the MOB... I am italian after all).
Dear Mike, may I call you so, I have a special question for you, writer of
Sun County, one that could help many, so I mail you on this site.
One of my characters is an Etyries merchant: he has established himself at
Sun Dome Temple (Prax) as an ambassador of Sor-eel. Beside the usual hammer
and anvil games played between the Governor and his brother, on one side,
and Solanthos and Coatilon, on the other, with the not unusual interference
of GimGim and Pharnastes or Cold Wind, he (his name is Yasir Kirman so let's
call him YK), YK, wishes to found a new marketsite in Sun County, managed by
himself but through alliance with both the Issaries and the Lokarnos. I
assumed the following:
Lokarnos are Yelmic, so they have a High Priest: if YK persuade the High
Priest, he has done it: the whole Lokarnos cult will be with him.
They manage cart trade and so do not venture on river or outside the Valley.
Etyries are Lunars, so they have a High Priest (who is a demibastard one, by
accident, politically involved to the hair), but they do not follow him if
they do not profit themselves, either economically or politically or
personally (i.e. cult advancement). YK will have some Etyries who aid him
and some who adverse him, and he will be the wiser if he will guard himself
more from the former than the latter.
They manage river trade (in contrast/collaboration with ZolaFeli) and they
control the best, northern caravan routes of Prax.
Issaries are Orlanthi , so they have an High Priest, but he is only a
charming person with a good reputation: he has no authority over his
cultists, but probably, if he is well-impressed by YK, he will cast this
well-impression on the majority of his neighbours. They control the minor
caravan routes, the trade between the less-lunarized oasis and the trade
with the Orlanthi-friendly nomads. They are almost totally excluded by river
traffic.
What do you think about my elucubrations?
Ciao
Gian
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