David
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Question about Fort Krasia: Not getting this whole desert spear thing. They break spears in every fight with every demon, yet they're in a tree-less desert. There's no trade. They use arrows like crazy and "scorpion" ballista for shooting huge spear projectiles. Which some at least must burn up by fire demons. So where does all this dang wood come from?
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Paca Sad
good point, and even withstanding that there is in fact Trade, with the Khaffit making up the bulk of the Krasia army Jardin raises. Abban touches on trade from Cutters/Deliverers hollow in wood, but still the amounts of wood needed would be, as you remarked unsustainable! but don't dwell too much on the details! :)
Shaitarn
The blood transfusion was the bit that threw me; particularly Leesha telling Rojier they had to check he was the same blood group when he volunteered to donate his own blood. I still wonder how you could find that out with medieval technology.
Bill
Good question, although generally speaking a good series, I think Brett is not interested into going into too granular detail on certain things. I myself have several other such queries but as someone else has said, probably best not to dwell on details too much.
g-na
Also, where does their food come from? Yes, there is trading with the northern kingdom, but if Krasnia really has a million (or even a quarter-million) inhabitants, that would require large daily shipments of food, and that isn't happening either.
Matthew Bane
They do trade with the north. Jardir often invited Messengers into his palace after meeting Arlen, the Par'Chin.
Messangers in the first book also brought wagons of trade goods with them, and took silks and other Krasian goods back to the north.
I think that one of the reasons why we don't get a "daily life in the Krasian bazaar" part of the story is that it's told through Jardirs point of view in this book, and trade is beneath warriors in Krasian culture.
Jardir does speak about how his old friend, the Khaffit (forget his name right now) is more wealthy and has many more wives than even the best warriors. Jardir hates this, but it must be because his old friend now holds the wood contract as well as other contracts with the north.
Messangers in the first book also brought wagons of trade goods with them, and took silks and other Krasian goods back to the north.
I think that one of the reasons why we don't get a "daily life in the Krasian bazaar" part of the story is that it's told through Jardirs point of view in this book, and trade is beneath warriors in Krasian culture.
Jardir does speak about how his old friend, the Khaffit (forget his name right now) is more wealthy and has many more wives than even the best warriors. Jardir hates this, but it must be because his old friend now holds the wood contract as well as other contracts with the north.
Chris Anderson
They are a declining civilization. They use their old city ruins for their maze it would occur to me that they salvage the wood from the ruins as they abandon and recede as their numbers continue to dwindle from millions to thousands.
Russell
The only excuse I can come up with is that perhaps they already had great stores of the stuff, but as their population of warriors has been decimated many many many times over now, they find themselves with an extraordinary abundance of materials or finished weapons.
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