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Re: Feuds and Rivalries of Knights and Their Orders, Part I (Score: 1)
by CruelSummerLord on Mon, January 31, 2005
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The king of Furyondy had no idea whether Keoland would attack or not. And, as it says right in the article, Keoland was hardly the only threat that the Furyonds were concerned about.
As for the Shield Lands, I view them during the time when they were part of the Great Kingdom as fervent Aerdi loyalists. They detested the Furyonds because Furyondy had broken away from the Aerdi empire, and thus the Shield Landers saw them as traitors.
It's a bit like how, in real-life history, British loyalists and monarchists viewed the American revolutionaries as traitors of the worst kind. Whether or not the grievances the revolutionaries had against the British government were legitimate or not made no difference; the loyalists would still not join the revolution.
In the case of the Shield Lands, the people of that realm loathed the corrupt regime in Rauxes, but still held the ideals of the old, noble Great Kingdom close to their hearts. When Furyondy attempted to seize them after it seceded, that pretty much set up their rivalry. The modern Shield Lands and Knights of the Shield viewed themselves as the people who had truly lived up to what the grand old days of the Great Kingdom represented, before it fell into corruption and wickedness. Relations would improve over the centuries, but both the Shield Lands and Furyondy would have a low-level, but very intense, dislike for each other, one that would lead to Furyondy offering only token aid to the Shield Lands when they were attacked by the Horned Society.
And for the record, Earl Holmer was probably justified, at least to some extent, in fearing that Furyondy would annex his damaged lands after the Shield Landers had reclaimed them from the Society. If the Furyondian military presence that was ostensibly sent to assist the Shield Lands against Iuz had defeated the demigod, it could very well have stayed for much longer than the Shield Landers would expect... |
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