12-25-2012, 08:44 AM
I don't have much thoughts to offer on this issue, apart from the fact that the crusades lasted way too much (centuries!), considering the difference in technology between the two armies.
I'd imagine a Blackmoor driven by a clergy mad about purity of race, raging war externally on the beastmen (and how about lizardmen etc.?) and internally, putting pressure on elves, dwarves, halflings, etc.
Like every war, there must have been some "gray area" where "deals" were made.
Somebody must have helped the beastmen, somehow, to withstand the technological war pressures (maybe the same races that had the internal persecutions? that would be shocking, isn't it?).
I see the situation a bit like the native americans that in few decades moved from a hunter/gathering culture with mostly stone age tools to rifles and horses that were introduced just before the "conquest" or the west and made them a much more powerful opponent. The difference is that I expect for a significant length of time the beastmen to outnumber the Blackmoorian warriors / war machines, while native americans were quickly outnumbered by the pioneers and soldiers.
I'd imagine a Blackmoor driven by a clergy mad about purity of race, raging war externally on the beastmen (and how about lizardmen etc.?) and internally, putting pressure on elves, dwarves, halflings, etc.
Like every war, there must have been some "gray area" where "deals" were made.
Somebody must have helped the beastmen, somehow, to withstand the technological war pressures (maybe the same races that had the internal persecutions? that would be shocking, isn't it?).
I see the situation a bit like the native americans that in few decades moved from a hunter/gathering culture with mostly stone age tools to rifles and horses that were introduced just before the "conquest" or the west and made them a much more powerful opponent. The difference is that I expect for a significant length of time the beastmen to outnumber the Blackmoorian warriors / war machines, while native americans were quickly outnumbered by the pioneers and soldiers.
He's a real Nowhere man, sitting in his Nowhere land,
making all his Nowhere plans for Nobody.
making all his Nowhere plans for Nobody.