: Maybe Maeldun is no sailor. When he says, "show me
: the way," he could be meaning, "show me the
: way because I'm afraid of being lost at sea."
: As far as the Penal colony thing, I think that the island
: would probably have the same function as Australia.
: It's a rather costly thing to jail someone, and pay
: guards, and build fences\walls, etc... Why not just
: throw them on some out of the way place and let them
: fend for themselves. It would be like being on
: "Survivor" only without the cameras,
: challenges, and money. And when a tribal council does
: happen, it's to kill someone off. Let these prisoners
: kill each other and save us the trouble.
Except you do have to keep control, otherwise they'd storm
whatever ships that come in to drop off new prisoners.
Australia was controlled by the English army & had an
English governer in its early days. Also, the Leixians
rebelled after three weeks of revolt, indicating there was
some kind of authority in place to revolt against.
: But by the Leixians banding together and becoming
: pirates, they could possibly build ships etc... But
: maybe they couldn't build the best of ships and had to
: rely on the currents to take them to the mainland. By
: looking at the map, the channel between Covenant and
: (the possible) Leix, would most likely cause a current
: through there and up the coastline right into the
: small peninsula that Tyr is sitting on. By this
: measure, it would probably be MUCH EASIER to get to
: TYR rather than Covenant. Just a theory, though.
Interesting, but after raiding Tyr, how would they get
back home?
Given that Alric's ship had sails, most likely the pirate
ships did too. If they survived by sea-based banditry,
it makes sense that they'd be good mariners, otherwise
the Tyrian navy would wipe them out.
I suppose there's no evidence that they hadn't attacked
Covenant and other towns as well, its just that the Tyr
attack was significant enough to be recorded & exact
vengeance.
