It would appear that this view of the Volsaxi is probably in GAG the 'norm', but I think it sucks. Sure I love the 'Deliverance' (the movie) type country hicks, but the exception rather than the norm.
I'm pretty sure this wasn't the case back in RQ2/3 days. Such proximity to a chaos nest and troll woods would take a more integrated and collaborative civilised society (for Orlanthi) anyway.
Cheers, Rob
Regards, Rob
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> From: Joerg Baumgartner joe_at_...
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> >> My traditional stand on the Volsaxi was that they were quite conservative.
> >> The chariot idea was rather a way to illustrate this than a required fact.
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> Hunting through story drafts, I find Kallyr's comments on a Volsaxi clan she's got to deal with - somehow. She's expecting problems, and looking for someone to act as an interface.
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> "I'm told they're isolationist, they're so backward they don't even have cows, they'd never met a Vingan until a few days ago and don't like them, in fact they don't trust anything that comes from more than a mile from their stead and hasn't been the same for the last hundred years."
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> Now, that's second-hand info, coming from a biased speaker, and both she and her source may well be wrong, but as an extreme case of Volsaxi, does it sound about right? (Incidentally, they're well over a mile from Whitewall.)
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