Re: Re: EWF and David's game

From: Gianfranco Geroldi <giangero_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 07:15:38 -0700 (PDT)

First of all, thank you, David, for the infos.

> History of The Empire of the Wyrms Friends (EWF
> Propaganda)

I would not call it propaganda, sice it looks to me as rather correct, but that's maybe because I am an EWFan.

> Our ancestors prepared for over ten years, and in
> 578 finally
> freed themselves. We call this the Tax Slaughter,
> but it was actually
> several large battles, both day and night, against
> troll armies from
> both Dagori Inkarth and the Shadowlands. Finally,
> our ancestors drove
> the trolls out of Dragon Pass, and freed themselves
> from the odious
> taxation.
> Only a few years before, Vistikos Left-Eye, one of
> the first
> to learn draconic speech, formed the first Waltzing
> and Hunting Band,

What is "Waltzing" for? Dancing, jumping, zapping? Why the bands were called so?

> and spread the wisdom of the draconic way. The newly
> freed people
> united together with the dragonewts of Dragon Pass,
> and formed the
> Empire of the Wyrms Friends. They formed a Diet,
> where everyone could
> be represented.
> Over a hundred years ago, the Emperor hired a tribe
> of Horse
> People from the north to help us conquer Prax. They
> moved into Prax,
> but couldn't displace the Praxian nomads. Finally,
> 37 years ago at
> the Battle of Third Wing, the Battle Banner summoned
> three flights of
> helpers, and we decisively beat the Praxian beast
> riders, who fled
> eastward across the River of Cradles.
> In 718, the Waertagi ships which had ruled the seas
> were
> destroyed at the Battle of Tanian's Victory, and the
> God Learners, an
> empire far to the west, began spreading quickly by
> ship.
> In 720, the God Learners they reached the mouth of
> the River
> of Cradles and built the city of Feroda. The river
> is named because
> giants build huge cradles and float their babies
> downstream to the
> sea. The God Learners began capturing these cradles.

So Prax was a sort of "Trading land" used by EWF to buy God Learners' sympathy (conquered by EWF allies but given to the God Learners in exchange for what?)

Gian

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