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Fallout: The Second Confederacy

So is this located in Houston or Galveston Texas? Or Mexico?

Fallout: The Second Confederacy

Free Society

Escaped slaves who roam the countryside of the CSA, committing murder, robbery, arson, on the slaveholders of the CSA. They are constantly on the move to escape the Confederate security services.

@Ulstermann

Hmm... I'm interested :D

Fallout: The Second Confederacy

So what are all the factions?

The Wheel of Time - Trolloc Wars

It was a coincidence. I hadn't known that page existed. The furthest my research has gone, was the Trolloc's Page to recall all of their little quirks and what they could and couldn't do (which at the time of reading mentioned the trolloc war but provided no link), the Dark One, The Myrdall, Dark lords, and -trying- to find some names on dark lords that existed during that period to see what their personalities and methodologies were.

The Wheel of Time - Trolloc Wars

@TangletailOh, so it's just coincidence that you happened upon Ba'alzamon's strategy to win the war? Read below:

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The fall of Aridhol was a massive blow to the Westlands, as it allowed the Shadow to now funnel armies into Coremanda and Manetheren. This was the 'hottest' part of the war, with fighting raging throughout those two kingdoms. The armies of Manetheren became famous during this period, with King Thorin and his grandson and successor Aemon achieving great victories over the Shadow with the new tactics. A band of elite warriors grew up around Aemon, the Band of the Red Hand, and their appearance alone on the battlefield could cow the forces of the Shadow. But the Shadow also gained renewed confidence at this time with the emergence of a commander who called himself Ba'alzamon. Rumored to be the Dark One itself at the time, modern historians now prefer the theory that this was the Forsaken Ishamael during one of his periods of liberty from his prison.

Ba'alzamon led the Shadow forces in assaulting Manetheren directly, attempting to penetrate into the Manetheren heartland by crossing the River Tarendrelle while the armies of Manetheren were engaged elsewhere. According to legend, King Aemon al Caar al Thorin marched his army day and night and beat the army of the Shadow to a strategically important bridge. Thus began the Battle of the Tarendrelle River, where the forces of Manetheren held their ground for ten days, awaiting relief forces that had been promised but would never arrive. Eventually, King Aemon's forces were broken and he was forced into a fighting retreat across the heartland of Manetheren ending with a final last stand at the Battle of Aemon's Field where the remaining defenders perished. Eldrene, the king's Aes Sedai wife and queen, felt the severing of their bond the moment he perished. Driven mad with grief, she drew deeply upon the Source and unleashed a vast wave of the One Power that routed the army of Shadowspawn and utterly destroyed the capital of Manetheren.

It was learned later that the then-Amyrlin Seat, Tetsuan, delayed and misdirected reinforcements so they would not arrive in time to save Manetheren. Her actions stemmed from youthful envy of Eldrene, a more powerful channeler. For this crime Tetsuan became the first Amyrlin to be deposed, stripped of staff and stole, and stilled by the Hall of the Tower.

Source: wot.wikia.com/wiki/Trolloc_Wars

It's discussed in one of the first few chapters of the first book.

EDIT: It's the 9th chapter of The Eye of the World, and Tetsuan's bit is relayed in the 5th chapter of The Great Hunt.

EDIT: "Manetheren blood was always stubborn, and more so after Aemon died and Eldrene's heart was shattered." - Moiraine, The Eye of the World

@aviendha

Call me a liar if you want, but I -hardly- call it forced labor for bridges an ingenious strategy. It's common sense.

The Wheel of Time - Trolloc Wars

@Tangletail Except you're forgetting that honor is a really important thing in specific cultures. And in the circumstance you outlined, a man could and likely would swallow his own tongue before doing anything so immoral. He wouldn't just sit and watch- he'd fight back, and if he couldn't, he'd kill himself before any information could be forced from him. That's quite obvious. I would personally rather die than betray Israel, and would kill myself without qualms if I knew I was going to be tortured or otherwise suffer at the potential expense of my people, my country, my religion. And I'm a violin teacher, not a military officer...

One of the reasons Ba'alzamon keeps cutting her off is because you're attempting to rush this campaign forward by like 6 months, by trying to bring up the solution that Ba'alzamon comes up with that ends up almost winning against Manetheren. Please, don't do that... They won't even have the idea to approach through the rivers for several months. Don't use OOC knowledge to boost your IC stuff.

The Shadow should have multiple roles during this; strategy and planning, actual battle on smaller scales, and

spoiler

on a larger scale against the white tower

, infiltration, individual duels, personal quests... you're thinking very limited, by trying to force the RP into its final stage.

@aviendha

I don't have any knowledge of the trolloc war...

It has been a few years since I have read the Wheel of time series, still not complete, and I don't have any resource that actually talks about the trolloc wars. The best I can get is the wiki, and the Wiki is only basically a description. Not a history.

And now I see that I need to throw the one idea I had that got around it in the trash.

The Wheel of Time - Trolloc Wars

Honestly... I'm at a lost here. Cuz, I don't know what to do at this point.

I've never heard of anything... ANYTHING having a loyalty so strong that it's completely artificial. From what I just read here, you can flay a dude's wife, put her on a spit roast, grill her, and make her husband eat her. And he'd be perfectly fine with it, because he refuses to betray his country if it means nothing horrible will happen.

The only other thought in my head, is to build a bridge out of stone by channeling... which wouldn't be hard to do I'd imagine. Except we're talking about trying to move 30,000 plus across a river. And something that massive will likely be seen. And any pre-existing bridges are just bottlenecks that can be cut off.

The only other option I can think of that the dark side can take at this point is basically going slice of life instead of trying to attack.

The Wheel of Time - Trolloc Wars

It looks like your efforts are going under appreciated, dear...
A voice. It was a voice that whispered in her ear. A sweet one. Nearly motherly. It’d be consoling in its own way if she wasn’t being demeaned by the very creature she dedicated her work to for the past years of her life.
She made not a single gesture that would show that such a thing was speaking to her now. Not a twitch of the eye, or a change of her face. Instead she kept her face stern. Her eyes looked to the hand with her anger’s cauldron over-boiling.

Yet… she kept her composure. Even as the voice started to speak to her again…
What a shame… a shame it is. It’s no wonder such a creature is imprisoned. He just broods, but can never make a solution for himself.

Ardath gave a small nod to the lord. “Very well then,” She said simply. She clicked her heels and spun on them. Then began the walk down the road.

Her skin started to grow clammy as she rounded a bend taking her out of sight. Her teeth clinched together. Her hands trembling. Her pupils began to dilate. Her breath grew shorter, as the light only grew brighter.

Her steps no longer graceful, they were clumsy. Clumsy and worsened by a blinding… wild rage.
It was all a mistake love, your talents are better suited else where…

“quiet you…” Ardath growled quietly to no one. One hand, then the other moved to rest on her head. The fingers curled digging the nails into her scalp. The voices only grew louder. She was stepping through various shadows of tall structures.

Now… things began to appear. Dancing at the very edge of her vision… but she could never catch them. They were always gone… but she could feel their touch.

Into The Dark: Mercenaries (Heroes of Fame and Fortune)

@Tangletail

I think you may have made a typo in your most recent post?

"No… probably what set that off was walking in just when a short stock dwarf, whom he could only assume the captain, had openly announced that his intention was to kill a thief"

Unless I'm mis-reading, you see to have mistaken Kayden for a dwarf, when he's a human. :)

@MiddleEarthRoze

Could have sworn I read that there was a Drabarian on the porch. I will fix it soon!

Into The Dark: Mercenaries (Heroes of Fame and Fortune)

Ah… luck would definitely have it for a thief to walk in at the most inopportune point in his life. Maybe he’s just being paranoid. The kind of nervous jitters you get when you’re about to get a new job… and you’re staring down four-hundred pounds of pure Drabarian beef cake. Well the beef cake thing is just a saying, but you could understand if you were in that situation. The thief was in that situation at some point in his life, but he didn’t have a nervous spark.

No… probably what set that off was walking in just when a short stock dwarf, whom he could only assume the captain, had openly announced that his intention was to kill a thief. Now to be fair… the dwarf did say to kill ‘whatever’. It doesn’t necessarily mean a thief. It could just be a some brooding dragon driven insane by the pheromones in the air and is in the rush to quickly build a hoard to impress the ladies. Would that label the dragon a thief? Or a pragmatist? Possibly pragmatist as the dragon definitely wasn’t trying to be discrete about it.

So in theory… he should be safe! Not really. Curse his honesty. But he came all this way. Might as well get the introductions out of the way, and be prepared for a firm boot to be hung deep in his mudhole and sent out the gates.

“Ah! Hello hello~,” The Jackal chimmed as he gave the captain a polite bow. A bit unnecessary in the circumstance, but it was a code of his professional ethics! As were the up coming bit!

“I am Leon. Many usually just refers to me as ‘Jackal’. I am an ex-thief. A professional if you were, with a healthy code of honor and ethics. Turned merc oh some year or two a ways a back back.” His words rolled off of his tongue. He paused for a moment with his lips pursing.

“Should note that I still firmly follow those codes. It’d be an honor to add my hands and blade to your ranks.”