Presuming from your word choice you refer to my assassination recommendation, vis a vis the King of Cairhien, following major roads or rivers might be a good idea. How did they even find out about the tree being cut down in the first place? Presumably a merchant or someone alowed in the Waste told them. Such people would also be highly likely to know where the city of Cairhien is located.
The idea that they did not know the location of Cairhien city would speak even more poorly of their intelligence for initiating a war against a country about which they had no idea of its general dimensions or the location of the most probable axis of resistance/accumulation of loot! The only thing more stupid than sending a small party of assassins into terra incognita to find a man whom you have no idea where he lives, is sending an army to do the same thing.
The idea that they did not know the location of Cairhien city would speak even more poorly of their intelligence for initiating a war against a country about which they had no idea of its general dimensions or the location of the most probable axis of resistance/accumulation of loot! The only thing more stupid than sending a small party of assassins into terra incognita to find a man whom you have no idea where he lives, is sending an army to do the same thing.
There are tens of thousands of mad Aiel, each and every one of them wanting to slit the treekiller's throat with their own spear. Unfortunately there was only one Laman. Do you know how many blood-feuds could start over who will take down this Laman? So they made a compromise. They would ALL go kill Laman and somehow find a way to wet ALL of their spears. It was a huge success.
Aiel & their methods of searching. (references ToM spoilers but more about tGH, tDR & tGS)
- 01/12/2010 09:33:23 PM
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How do people sneaking about acquire map locations? Especially if they're not killing/capturing folk *NM*
- 02/12/2010 04:33:44 PM
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What would an AIelman do with a map location anyway? They don't use them.
- 02/12/2010 08:19:20 PM
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But maybe there's a reason
- 02/12/2010 08:39:30 PM
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