Re: Wagons

From: donald_at_...
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:04:25 GMT

In message <11513.81476.qm_at_...> Jane Williams writes:
>
>> > Yes, looking at the version in River of Cradles, p159: "The priest must
>> > own a cart to carry the necessary paraphenalia for services. This cart
>> > must be at least two-wheeled, and drawn by at least two oxen."
>
>> Still, a two-wheeled cart is different from a four-wheeled traders' wagon
>> requiring 4 to 8 draught beasts.
>
>It is, and I rather doubt if the priest's wagon would be available for
>loan to a trader.
>
>That "at least two-wheeled" bit puzzles me. Who would try to have a
>cart with less than two wheels? Why?

Also known as a wheelbarrow. It depends what you are trying to transport. Two oxen and a cart with a single wheel would be perfectly stable.

>And if they managed to succeed in having
>a working cart with less than two wheels, what's wrong with that?

Not big enough.

Personally I'm very doubtful about priests of Orlanth having a requirement for carts. Doesn't fit the wandering image at all well. And gives the Lunars an easy target for supressing worship. All they have to do is locate the carts and what they carry and destroy them.

-- 
Donald Oddy
http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/