Post by Rowenna on Jul 30, 2006 2:12:15 GMT -5
I think I’ve found a way to satisfy both our desires on the Broken Alliance threads. It’s actually better than each of our own as a singular idea--we should have thought of this sooner!
Okay. My plan: use both ideas. These two cities (countries, nations, we’ll work that out some point) will be reluctant allies, having aligned themselves over a war in the past years, which we will probably refer to as The Great War, or something similar. To replace the War of the Ring, which is occasionally referred to, since this is also where Lerris’ apprentice dies.
So, these cities are reluctant allies to ward off the darkness that threatened to consume the land. However, they do not like one another. They are the kind of allies that talk dirt when the other one isn’t looking, partially stemming from religious differences, one built of earth-believers, who live in small and scattered clans that combine into a great nation. The other is built of either one-god believers or Greek-esque pagans, living in restricted but fortified cities. And they don’t like one another--the alliance is shaky at best, holding together only because of what they’d been through together.
Enter Grohn. He’s an imprisoned criminal in Gondor, kept there for murder. You said before, I believe, that he lived in Laketown, where he killed his parents. Let’s go with that, but he traveled over the years, and ended up in Gondor, where he was caught--or he was caught close enough, and imprisoned there. It has been six years. Six because one group fights for his death and the other believe his compelling lies and fight for his right to be free. At the end of the six years, a noble comes to him to give him an offer. Not the leader of Gondor, but a wealthy lord. In exchange for his release and full pardonment and protection, he will assassinate the heir to the lead of Rohan--because he wants war, in reasons for profit, station, and distaste for Rohirrim. Grohn agrees, and is taken to the outskirts of Rohirrim territory cuffed and at the end of a big stick to keep distance between the escorts and himself. Grohn is released, if you like (I figured you would) he kills the escorts, and goes off to do the deed. As it turns out, the target is the daughter of the luminary (I figure it would cause more of an uproar). He does the deed, then has all hell following him back to Gondor. He outruns them, and comes to Gondor, reminding his lord of his promise. The lord decides... screw you! and has Grohn recaptured. To hide the truth of the deal, he has Grohn sent to an obscure hamlet to rot for the rest of his days.
A few month later, enter Rowen, drunk and in prison.
How does that sound?
Okay. My plan: use both ideas. These two cities (countries, nations, we’ll work that out some point) will be reluctant allies, having aligned themselves over a war in the past years, which we will probably refer to as The Great War, or something similar. To replace the War of the Ring, which is occasionally referred to, since this is also where Lerris’ apprentice dies.
So, these cities are reluctant allies to ward off the darkness that threatened to consume the land. However, they do not like one another. They are the kind of allies that talk dirt when the other one isn’t looking, partially stemming from religious differences, one built of earth-believers, who live in small and scattered clans that combine into a great nation. The other is built of either one-god believers or Greek-esque pagans, living in restricted but fortified cities. And they don’t like one another--the alliance is shaky at best, holding together only because of what they’d been through together.
Enter Grohn. He’s an imprisoned criminal in Gondor, kept there for murder. You said before, I believe, that he lived in Laketown, where he killed his parents. Let’s go with that, but he traveled over the years, and ended up in Gondor, where he was caught--or he was caught close enough, and imprisoned there. It has been six years. Six because one group fights for his death and the other believe his compelling lies and fight for his right to be free. At the end of the six years, a noble comes to him to give him an offer. Not the leader of Gondor, but a wealthy lord. In exchange for his release and full pardonment and protection, he will assassinate the heir to the lead of Rohan--because he wants war, in reasons for profit, station, and distaste for Rohirrim. Grohn agrees, and is taken to the outskirts of Rohirrim territory cuffed and at the end of a big stick to keep distance between the escorts and himself. Grohn is released, if you like (I figured you would) he kills the escorts, and goes off to do the deed. As it turns out, the target is the daughter of the luminary (I figure it would cause more of an uproar). He does the deed, then has all hell following him back to Gondor. He outruns them, and comes to Gondor, reminding his lord of his promise. The lord decides... screw you! and has Grohn recaptured. To hide the truth of the deal, he has Grohn sent to an obscure hamlet to rot for the rest of his days.
A few month later, enter Rowen, drunk and in prison.
How does that sound?
