How wide-spread do you all figure knowledge of Xaltotun's plot is in Nemedia and Aquilonia in the post Hour of the Dragon world? I run a game set in the years just after that disaster of a war. It doesn't appear Xaltotun contacted any of the outstanding tribes; perhaps he simply had no desire to collect them until he had a mighty host with which to control them. But I was thinking, if everyone in Nemedia knew Xaltotun was responsible for their current condition, there'd be some major witch burning going on. Or some kind of strike back against them, perhaps? Do you think anyone outside of the summoners and Conan himself even knows about Xaltotun?
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Knowledge Of Xaltotun?
Started by Cheomesh, Jul 30 2012 03:00 AM
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Posted 30 July 2012 - 05:31 AM
I think lots of Nemedians but not so many Aquilonians would know that some kind of powerful wizard was helping the Nemedians, but few would know exactly who he was, or what his origins were.
"Did you deem yourself strong, because you were able to twist the heads off civilized folk, poor weaklings with muscles like rotten string? Hell! Break the neck of a wild Cimmerian bull before you call yourself strong. I did that, before I was a full-grown man...!" - Conan, in "Shadows in Zamboula", by Robert E. Howard
"... you speak of Venarium familiarly. Perhaps you were there?"
"I was," grunted [Conan]. "I was one of the horde that swarmed over the hills. I hadn't yet seen fifteen snows, but already my name was repeated about the council fires." - "Beyond the Black River", by Robert E. Howard
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"... you speak of Venarium familiarly. Perhaps you were there?"
"I was," grunted [Conan]. "I was one of the horde that swarmed over the hills. I hadn't yet seen fifteen snows, but already my name was repeated about the council fires." - "Beyond the Black River", by Robert E. Howard
Read my Conan screenplays at The Scrolls of Ironhand (in particular my transcription of THE FROST GIANT'S DAUGHTER in Act II of "The Snow Devil") at
http://www.scrollsof...d.us/index.html or at
http://www.delicious...ic=ConanProject
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Posted 30 July 2012 - 06:12 PM
It appears that Conan had him figured out, and probably wouldn't be shy about announcing his discovery in the aftermath.
Would he visit a scorched earth policy upon Nemedia as well?
Would he visit a scorched earth policy upon Nemedia as well?
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Posted 31 July 2012 - 08:03 AM
I think that his marriage to Zenobia amounted to a "settlement" with Nemedia, an offer that Nemedia couldn't refuse.It appears that Conan had him figured out, and probably wouldn't be shy about announcing his discovery in the aftermath.
Would he visit a scorched earth policy upon Nemedia as well?
"Did you deem yourself strong, because you were able to twist the heads off civilized folk, poor weaklings with muscles like rotten string? Hell! Break the neck of a wild Cimmerian bull before you call yourself strong. I did that, before I was a full-grown man...!" - Conan, in "Shadows in Zamboula", by Robert E. Howard
"... you speak of Venarium familiarly. Perhaps you were there?"
"I was," grunted [Conan]. "I was one of the horde that swarmed over the hills. I hadn't yet seen fifteen snows, but already my name was repeated about the council fires." - "Beyond the Black River", by Robert E. Howard
Read my Conan screenplays at The Scrolls of Ironhand (in particular my transcription of THE FROST GIANT'S DAUGHTER in Act II of "The Snow Devil") at
http://www.scrollsof...d.us/index.html or at
http://www.delicious...ic=ConanProject
"... you speak of Venarium familiarly. Perhaps you were there?"
"I was," grunted [Conan]. "I was one of the horde that swarmed over the hills. I hadn't yet seen fifteen snows, but already my name was repeated about the council fires." - "Beyond the Black River", by Robert E. Howard
Read my Conan screenplays at The Scrolls of Ironhand (in particular my transcription of THE FROST GIANT'S DAUGHTER in Act II of "The Snow Devil") at
http://www.scrollsof...d.us/index.html or at
http://www.delicious...ic=ConanProject
