Re: Re: Roads in Sartar

From: Roderick and Ellen Robertson <rjremr_at_...>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:05:22 -0800

> >If the king wants to collect payments for crimes related to roads,
> he'd better show up (or send someone) at each and every moot where
> such a case comes up.
>
> >Like a sheriff, maybe?

> The old questions of the Sartarites and whether they have sherrif's
> (shire reeves).
>
> <Ian dons his asbestos suit for protection>
>
> We know Heortland has sherrifs and Tarsh has shrieves, but in the
> weak central authority of Sartar they have been questioned. There is
> of course good old Dronlan Swordsharp

Well, Ol' Dronlan seemed much more the idea of the Old West Sheriff than the AS Shire Reeve or Norman Sheriff. I'd hesitate to take too much of Heortling culture from Apple Lane.

Roderick (sacrificing mightily to the Water Gods)