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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 2259915" data-attributes="member: 7280">Anastasia is a good, honest warrior. Maybe too good, or too young, or both. She means well, but she one of those in the Sheldomar that don't understand the big picture or the balance and sacrifices that must be made to reconquer Sterich. Part of him is jealous. Reivik isn't the sort of person Mavic likes, but he's the sort of person he finds useful. While he doesn't have much use for poetry himself, he recognizes its value in waging war. Wars need heroes to give men hope, so if Reivik wants to make people heroes then Mavic is all for it.  George probably registers as a good yeoman in the same way his own rangers are. He and Mavic probably haven't talked, but I'm betting Mavic's vicious bunch of ranger cavalry and George operate in the same circles of a different crowd. Morley's probably in the same boat as George, with higher credit. He's probably not gone out of his way to make friends with Morley, but he's noticed him and made note. He's probably spoken aloud to his older brothers and others in the military about him. Not only are heroes useful, men will follow them. Since they must follow their heroes into hell this time, every single one counts. Mavic probably knows quite a bit more about Latalya than she knows about him, because brothers talk amongst brothers about pretty girls often. She's probably associated more with the brother than for her own sake though, "Cale's friend Latalya" is probably more likely to come to mind than any other notion.***As for the skirmishers idea, I'd like to step up to the plate for that one. Mavic's still needing to find a reason to win that Medal of Gallantry, have his first cohort be killed, lose some brothers... What better way to get a whole bunch of people killed than to bravely volunteer for a near suicide mission. To increase the lethality though, I'd like to suggest that not only would it be beneficial to draw out the gnolls, but to use the wood elves to draw out some of the giants as well into the same trap...If we go with this Mavic would probably be trying to enlist Morley and Anastasia to join the light horse massacre as well, being brave heroes and all that. George would probably be begged to be involved in tightening the noose too, as someone who wouldn't shy away from committing people to die if it meant a great victory. At some time before all this, news would probably come definitively on the fate of much of Mavic's family and aid in his (already) nihilist mindset.</blockquote>

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