Just some thoughts.
Ian Cooper has hit it on the nail there.
Also individuals faced with the dilemma of siding with the Evil Empire or
face suffering terrible living conditions, would have to make some hard
choices. They would have to take account their children's future as well as
their own disappearing way of life.
1.- The die-hards would say "better dead than red!"
2.- Others would reluctantly co-operate with the invaders, showing their
badly hidden contempt.
3.- Most of the survivors would co-operate with the Lunars, doing their best
so that they can scrape a living but with out betraying their core beliefs.
4.- Some would be forced through circumstances (to save their kin or village
from destruction at the hands of the Lunars, the lesser of two evils.) to
betray other Sartarites who were rebelling.
5.- Then there are those who actively assist the lunars, collaborating to
gain rewards and a better way of life (nice clothing, protection from angry
Sartarites, warm baths, etc.)
6.- Those that are fully Lunarized and converted to the Lunar Way.
All these examples would be in every tribe and clan, even in the Lunar
supporting Tribes.
So you could be in a Anti-Lunar clan, Cold Wind rebellion and all that but
can you still trust your neighbours?
Or you could find full hearted support in a so called Lunarized clan.
Just some thoughts that might stop Heroes getting complacent. :-)
> Gareth wrote:
> >surely you would see the 7M as an enemy cult. It's legitimiser,
> >apologist and a supporter of the same state presently taxing the hell
> >out of your economy, killing your warriors and occupying your cattle
> >ranges and possibly taking your citizens as slaves. Why are they not
> >killed on sight?
ian_hammond_cooper wrote:
> A better historical example than the spread of Christianity by the
> British Empire is the spread of the Roman Empire into Britannia.
> Tribes who sided with the Empire, or were just neutral to them,
> gained considerable power and influence over their enemies.
>
> Missionaries began coming to Sartar before the invasion. After Tarsh
> divides in Civil War, the lowlanders, who embrace the Lunar Way,
> spread the word of the goddess to Sartar. Some people kill or drive
> off the new missionaries, citing the mistakes of the past, others
> give them hospitality and listen to their words (check the clan
> generator).
>
> When invasion comes (IMO a reaction to Sartarite aid and comfort to
> Tarshite rebels) some tribes aid the invaders, seeing their future
> within the Lunar Way, not against it. Many gain prestige and status
> from collaboration.
>
> Post-invasion some still tribes resist Lunar missionaries, for
> exactly the reasons you state. The result: the Dundealos massacre in
> which in entire tribe is wiped out, following its rebellion over ill-
> treatment by the Empire (shades of Boudicca here). This sends a
> powerful message to the other tribes, rebel and you will be wiped out.
>
> The Sartarites can be conquered because they are disunited. The king
> is a weak puppet and there is no one to take his place. Should a
> figure arise whom the tribes can unite behind, of course, then the
> Empire may find its divide and conquer strategy fails. Meanwhile
> Lunar supporting tribes continue on the ascendancy...
Cheers
DARRAN
'What song the Syrens sang, or what name
Achilles assumed when he hid himself among
the women, although puzzling questions,
are not beyond *all* conjecture.
Sir Thomas Browne
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