She's even considered making it a bit of a double event. She commits the original horror, and then is so shocked by what she's done she withdraws and screws up her command, so when the other side comes for revenge, her troops are slaughtered. (So she thinks herself responsible for both events.)
That might be a bit much, but it has crossed her mind. :)
I do like some of the more personal suggestions on vengence gone wrong, and not necessarily violence, which lets her not have to be a commander if she doesn't want to be.
LC
On 14 Jul 2004 at 21:08, donald_at_... wrote:
> Depends what she's thinking of in the way of atrocities. If it's an
> atrocity by her character's personal moral standards it could be
> perfectly acceptable to the society. I'm thinking particularly of
> Lunar society here where using chaos to further the Empire's ends
> is acceptable but many Lunars consider it wrong. However the same
> applies to any other society, a Heortling could take revenge in a
> particularly bloodthirsty way which the individual then realises
> was personally unacceptable.
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> >There are stories about Lunar atrocity troops, like the story where a
> >Lunar tribune (or was it Jaxarte) meets Roan-ur (in Tales #16).
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> There are also the Char-un (Sons of Kargzant) and Paggi-Addi (Wesley
> Quantros' web site), a Lunar who used them might well be upset by the
> results.
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