> > > Tensions are good.... quite possibly Broyan and Kallyr
> > > get on fine, but their *followers* compete?
> >
> > Do we really need Achilles and Agammemnon here? Isn't Harrek
going
> > to fulfill that role enough?
It seems there's a growing concensus that K and B get on fine, and both have a clear idea of respective areas of action and destinies.
Their followers are a different matter.
Leadership tensions are more novelistic than straight description, and can be read in to situations. I imagine our initial goal is to concentrate on actions and events, leaving some freedom for alternative interpretations about motivatons. This is easier in the personal stuff I'm doing, Kallyrkarla, where I have identified a number of different skalds and their respective biases.
My suggestion is that we nominate or invent a number of other potential 'leaders' during the seige, to add to the intrigue and tension. Being able to kill them off is good too. :)
>
> AFAIK Harrek doesn't show up until some time after Whitewall.
I didn't think to include him, but there is lots of opportunities for Independents to show up, look around, take notes and join in the fun for a day or ten. And wolf pirates have already raided the coast. So there's potentioal, if not for Harrek, than at least for a buddy.
> And I'm not suggesting a full A&A situation at all. They really did
> resent each other. Broyan and Kallyr seem to cooperate all the way
> through: as someone pointed out, he came and helped her in 1625. My
> idea was that others with more competitive inclinations see the
whole
> thing as a contest between them for leadership, and neither of them
> do.
>
Yipsa.
> In fact, maybe this is why Kallyr wanders off before it's all over:
> she can see that she's accidentally stealing Broyan's glory, and
> leaves so as to give him a free hand? (And perhaps to attack the
> Lunars from the outside? OiD gives her 2W2 in guerilla warfare, not
> sieges.)
Nice. Though that's probably not what's told in the outer market at the time.
John
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