: Hey, I'd never realised how much fun this discussing
: history could be :)
: OK, fair point about the Brigands. I for one would not
: want to fall overboard wearing full armour. I like the
: idea of the pirates being zerks, would seem to fit
: with at least part of their mentality.
: Just a thought though, could it be that the story of the
: pirates is merely 'revisionist history' on the part of
: the Province's historians. Maybe they weren't pirates
: in the true, swashbuckling sense of the word but
: merely a race with different, and therefore alien, set
: of ideas to the legion. The only reason I say this is
: that what Maeldun did to the citizens of Leix amounts
: to wholesale genocide - a whole society wiped out as
: retribution for the sacking of a city. Maybe history
: was rewritten to cover up Maeldun's crimes - make them
: out to be pirates and everyone will forgive us.
: Actually having said all that, maybe I'm trying too hard
: to introduce a 'conspiracy theory' :) Must be the
: cynic in me.
Keep in mind, though, that we don't actually know what he did to Leix. All we know is that he "exacted retribution." That could be as simple as giving them a good spanking and telling them not to do it again--though probably not--or it could be burning down the whole country, sowing the fields with salt, etc. Personally, I think he probably just headed over, captured the pirates and killed them; Leix's civilians (if such exist) were untouched. But again, we have no actual data.
--SiliconDream
