Peshwa literary origins

[Havard]

AM I INVISIBLE? DO YOU GUYS HAVE ME ON IGNORE? ARE YOU PUZZLED BY THE LINK ABOVE CONSISTING OF NUMBERS, LETTERS, AND SYMBOLS?

Hehe sorry Rafe. I took a look at the link, but could not find anything. That place appears to be massive though so it will take some time searching through. I appreciate the link though

As to the name "peshwa", well, I think the Asian name origin is the most probable option. Why?

Going with Arneson's tradition of battle field names, we do have the Battle of Peshawar.

Because the term is used in context with Napoleonic war gaming. India-based scenarios like the Maratha Wars, concerning a territory where the term "peshwah" was used for headpeople of horserider clans (!!!), were played out with the same rules, and drew on the same resources that Europe-based campaigns did. Someone more into it than me can pinpoint you directly to a couple of sources Arneson likely had access to.

Sources? Links?

Now, where Adams comes in with the Horseclans again: The series, which I read in part, mind you, has a plot about an immortal, IIRC, in search for a spaceship, or something alike.

Milo, founder of the Horseclans after World War 3 was immortal, ie he could not die of old age. I havent found anything about a spaceship though.

I never specifically cared about DA3, and the whole City of Gods arc, but, hey, St Stephen and the spaceship, not that of a far call. Was CoG not something post-FFC? At least in the parts that were published, and in the way the scenario was run for Kuntz and Gygax?

City of the Gods is mentioned in The FFC. It appeared towards the end of the campaign, probably around 1975. Several PCs were reported killed in their quests for the city. Arneson ran the City of the Gods scenario for Kuntz and Gygax when he was working for TSR in 1976.

St. Stephen and references to Space Ships appear much earlier in the Blackmoor Campaign of course as they are linked to the Temple of the Frog and Stephen Rocheford (Maybe 1974).

The Peshwa are already around for the Coot Invasions (1972).

-Havard