: Thnx Din u reminded me of one thing near the end of TFL.
: "Alric CONVINCED our officers that Madrigal would
: fall" blah blah. This gives me a feeling that the
: Nine wasn't accualy military leaders. I think they
: were more of a sorcerer escort. Now i know that all
: the armies were named after the sorcerors but it
: wouldn't be nice to see soulblighter fight against
: some warrior now would it? What im trying to say is
: that the Nine did more like advice which the
: commanders considered and went on. The Nine were more
: concentrated on magical effords like armor and tain
: and soon. So without them no commander could win even
: if he would be a superdupertacticalike man
At the point you're speaking of, almost all of the Nine were dead. There was no political organization left--just a few bands of soldiers who only trusted each other and their immediate superiors. Any lack of trust in Alric reflects an absence of leadership in general, not someone other than Alric being the leader.
Plus, what Alric was proposing was a pretty distasteful thing--to give up on the capital and largest known surviving city of the Province. If the president of the US went up to me and said "Most of America's been slaughtered and San Francisco's about to get burned to the ground, but forget about it, I want you to go fight in a war somewhere else," he'd still need to work at convincing me. Loyalty to your boss only goes so far.
--SiliconDream
