Well, having quite a lot of their friends killed might get their attention. I'm hoping to have them a bit more widely travelled by then, but they've already been to Runegate, and seeing it after the Bat lands on it should make an impression.
> Maybe they get to fight in a big battle against some funny
> soldiers.
I expect so, yes. With a bit of "corlookatthat" involving Bats and Dragons.
> Then they go back home and get back to the
> important stuff like raiding their neighbours herds. Sure
> they've heard those neighbours have adopted some strange
> foreign gods, but they were a funny lot anyway.
Weird! You don't want to know what they do with sheep, and their ideas about oak trees are all wrong.
> The clan ring
> may get round to discussing what to do about the new taxes
> the tribe is expected to collect but will probably reject
> them as "not traditional".
Yep! And then the Lunars turn up and insist, in non-traditional ways.
> I think it's going to take many years before the gradual
> influx of missionaries, tax collectors and soldiers impinges
> noticeably on most ordinary clanspeople.
It might be fun to have the unusually well-travelled PCs (might have been to Boldhome by then) trying to get the rest of the clan to take notice.
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