Alone indeed!

From: bethexton <bethexton_at_...>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 22:32:20 -0000

OK, so according to Barbarian Adventures, the three tribes around Alone all moved there recently (post righteous wind getting crushed).

But, Alone was founded a generation or more ago.

Cities are not subsistence propositions. Either they serve a hinterland (usually agricultural), or they are a trading or crafting centres which make enough to import a lot of their needs.

Even assuming that the people in the original city did a lot of gardening and had some fields near the city, something doesn't seem right, unless the city had/has some other source of revenue that let them import food from the Aldachur overtribe.

Anyone have thoughts on the subject? Sorry to keep asking, but I'm kind of fascinated by the Alone undertribe and think it has great dramatic possibilities (far off in a distant corner of the land something great starts, which nobody pays attention to because it is far off in a distant corner of the land....).

--Bryan