02-07-2012, 02:12 PM
Havard Wrote:Quote:Maybe. Will give it more thought but at the moment am still favoring the Sufz.
There is one key difficulty that has to be addressed, that being that the Nomads of Ten and the Horsemen of Peshwah are on different sides in this war. While that doesn't mean that they were actually fighting each other, it still has to be explained if we are going to say the Nomads were Peshwah.
The scenario above would help explain that problem. OTOH, Peshwah fighting eachother would not be unheard of.
A few more things to consider. Ken Shepro's character Peshwah na Shepro is associated with the Bortai. He is the Baron of Dragonia and loyal to Blackmoor. Dale Nelson is also said to have controlled "Nomads", though I am not sure which group.
Chuck Monson's comments could also help explain where the Afridhi came into the picture:
"As noted in the Judge's Guild publication... released at GenCon Lake Geneva Playboy Club so long ago (10th GenCon?)... I held a post in the Duchy of Ten, however frequently I was mashed by the hordes."
-Havard
There's one solution that will work, but requires a little inventiveness. Instead of trying to make the Ben Hassock to be really tribe X, they could be (or have been) a "lost" tribe. Suppose that the Hassocks as a tribe broke from the other Peshwa over the worship of Calerin. Perhaps Calerin won them over in the distant past and they have been at odds with the other Peswha since. Further, if they are identical to the Nomads of Ten, It would explain thier warlike behavior, why the Weasel might be welcome among them, and why they would have allied with Ten/ the Ran of Ah Foo.
Perhaps, these are the same nomads who attacked the new lands and got trounced by Svenny and co. Perhaps this was a devestating defeat for them in terms of body count. Whatever was left of the Ben Hassocks may have been butchered by the Afridhi during thier assault on Ten.
If the Ben Hassocks were a bunch of Calerin followers in southern/western Ten who have been basically wiped out, it explains, kinda, why they don't really show up now as part of the Peshwah.
BTW, I Iwonder if "Hak" is actually HAssocK, contracted. The Peswha are the "sons of Hak" and Ben Hassock literally means sons of hassock.