>A final note - although all the rebels at Whitewall recognize the
>paramount authority of Broyan as High King (at least while they are
>there), he's the only person who is going to get that recognition.
>If Kallyr tells Gyffur to do something, Gyffur may tell her to buzz
>off. And so on.
While this is true as far as it goes, Broyan isn't going to be directly commanding every heroband at WW. Individual herobands which aren't prepared to work under one of a few leaders are going to be more trouble than they're worth. Kallyr is one of those leaders as I expect is Leika. This is where the "follow chosen leaders" comes into play - herobands will be expected to choose a leader to follow. They may change that leader over time but if they insist on being independent they'll find they get overlooked while if they cause trouble they'll be assigned to something inconvenient and/or dangerous.
If we can decide who these leaders are then it should help to identify who the main groups are. For example Kallyr brings with her many of the Kheldon tribes clan warbands. Leika does the same with some Colymar ones. Broyan brings many Volsaxi warbands and part of the fyrd. I think they're going to have their own leader simply because Broyan hasn't time to deal with them all separately. Probably a Starkval or Humakti weaponthane.
Now who else?
-- Donald Oddy http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/
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