[HQ Ignorance] Re : Re : Re : Scene 42: Wilkairtha Questions .. and a revelation.

[Nic Hughes]

Loran wrote:
> [IC]
> Azhur was feeling melancholic, torned between his duty to say his reluctancy and the harsh words he said to his friend Aalmon…
> After a long moment of reflection, he stood up and went to the arrolian rider.
> - “Aalmon… he began, my words have probably been too hard for my thoughts, for this I should present my apologizes… I really fear that you activate a serie of events that will lead us to a catastrophe, we have to consider all consequences of our acts… so I want to present you an other version of your main plan…”
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- “After Swordsinger’s remark, I’m now also thinking that this attack in 
two days is a trap designed against Wilkairtha’s telmori troops. Simple 
military strategy tells us to avoid it and choose an other way. By 
chance or fate, we have an other target ripe for harvest: Guillarm the 
Fat is still prisoner in his own castle!”
> Here he looked on the mostali:
> - “If Kalen has succeed to get out with the help of the local… hmm… rats, he can certain lead Wilkairtha and his troops in there… and then I will be curious to see if the protective spells of this swine-king will be a match for the Talor’s axe bearer… Princess Erengazor will be satisfied… Within the castle the telmori will be well protected against the vampires and have some relief to be able to experiment Aalmon's proposal with their curse or at least to learn how to resist it with Thaneora’s help.”
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Aalmon pays some attention to this part of the Knight's speach and 
responds "If the Telmori were iron-clad disciplined soldiers you might 
be right but their style of fighting has never been to stand still and 
fight. Wolves harry and exhaust their prey to the point of defeat before 
they dare a direct confrontation. The vampires were apparently soldiers 
until very recently, they will still think and fight as soldiers 
although with greater strength and terror to aid them. I doubt if the 
walls would have stood against the soldiers of Nolos without knights to 
defend them, against that same army as undead the walls cannot hold.

The forest is the best place for any confrontation. In the forest the 
Telmori have mobility, cover and sustenance whilst our enemies have no 
sustenance and cannot fight as a disciplined army within the trees. If 
we can force or trick the vampire army to venture within the forest on 
the day of the full moon then the battlefield will be to the benefit of 
the Telmori not the blood-suckers. Of course the castle is now within 
the forest and if the king were to die then a force would have to be 
sent to secure it and ensure the succession, what closer force does 
Theoblanc have?

As for the night of the full moon, Icthya is already full of ideas to 
distract the foe and buy time and is of course on home ground within the 
forest. My own magics are at their strongest on the full moon and those 
of concealment are in some ways the most powerful. Others among us are 
hardly without power and some of what we can do will be entirely strange 
and unfamiliar to our opponents. If between us we cannot protect the 
Telmori and divert any searchers for the duration of one night then our 
courage and wit will have failed us as they have not before."


> He looked then on Ichtya:
> - “ As our plant-friend just suggested, Theoblanc may have fallen into boristi or galvosti heresy… To prove that, we need a little time, and to correct it, we need even more time… having the vampires making the siege of Seguarane will buy us this time and by the way it will fix them here… the Grand Wizard Talar Malaskan Phillip should be then in a position to help us to break the siege… after all, he slew greater vampires in Arkat’s time, what we need is to contact him quite fast… perhaps a job for friendly runners…?”
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> And he concluded with a stern voice:
> - “ For the rest of this plan, *Duty, Chivalry and Equality is my credo*, so I have to protect the Farmer Cast, rokari or hrestoli, they are all the same, simple essences, just willing to live happy with their family. Do we need Baros there or Vampires will be a proof good enough? I don’t know by now, but I think that I can convince them, I know them, they may trust me… and being malkioni make me harder to attack if our enemies are galvosti or boristi heretics. To cleanse this forever cursed land of Seshnela, there is only one mean: uniting malkioni in one movement and call for the Crusade!”
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"Azhur, I will set aside the insult to my family for the time being - 
for the good of the fellowship. If we are like those who faced the 
Vampire Kings of old then each must follow a different path. You seek 
the path of Talor and none would criticise you for that but it was not 
his ways that brought down the lich-Kings of old was it?"

Nic

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