"Jeff Richard" <richaje_at_...> wrote:
> Hiring out the Black Horse Troop is the main source of
> revenues for the County - I doubt the county produces
> enough of an agricultural surplus to support the
> riders without those additional revenues. I suspect the
> agents of the count regularly purchase grain from the
> Vendref at Queens Post.
>
> I'm sure a lot of Sir Ethilrist's focus is on preventing
> the Grazers from having an opportunity to eliminate his
> little county - the Grazers could muster around 4000
> [...]
> Sir Ethilrist does whatever is necessary to keep the
> various kingdoms of Dragon Pass at each others throat so
> that there is a need for his services and so they can't
> unite to eliminate him.
I like that last part very much, Jeff. Thank you. I might have an opportunity to weave that situation into my on-going HeroQuest game.
In Glorantha, a vast portion of the Black Horse County
people are not as reclusive and shut out from the goings-on around their enclave as some readers may think they are.
The professional mercenaries get a chance to travel far
and wide in the Lunar Empire, from its Eastern to Western
borderlands, they will fight Orlanthi, Grazer, and Troll
foes.
If they live to tell the tale, there will be a steady
influx of "Know Strangers" or "Stories About People We Killed" in the county.
Also, if Black Horse County troopers are serving in the siege of Whitewall in the south, in the army camps they'd be exposed to other Malkioni military men. So, while technically the Malkioni churches are all heretics to one another, sometimes adherents will find themselves lumped in with people from another church in the turmoils of war.
I think that the Hero Wars will lead to a lot of "30-Years War" situations across Sartar and other places, where you'll see troops and specialists from widely different regions banding together in roaming groups for the common goal of food, money, and better survival chances.
Of course, the Black Horse Troop in itself rates as a rather radical, straightforward Hero Band with very strict entry requirements.
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