>>5561826You speak like a true knight ! Montjoie !
>>5561838A wise choice indeed.
>>5562029Hahahaha, he is more like a defrocked monk !
And about Brother Louis he must have taken the bow from a guardsman. Like all knights he would never use it in combat but unfortunately rabbits and pheasants have the bad habit of not engaging in open battle against brave frenchmen. So like a lot of noblemen of those times he hunts with falcons, bows and crossbows and since only a bow was available here he used it.
Of course Templars normally were forbidden from hunting, the rules of their order only permitted to hunt lions because of Peter 5:8: “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour”. But when it was not as a pleasure but to feed their companions in campaign it was of course not forbidden.
And well, before the hills one of Isnott's men who guided us was Gepees, these Pleasantville fellows have curious names.
>>5562029You decided that it was better to take the shortest path, after all you needed to get ahead of the baron. So you told the man.
-We will go between the hills, we have twenty good men it should be easy to rout any group foolish enough to attack us.
Your companions seemed to agree, but before leaving you decided to ask.
-We can maybe send Ancel ahead he should be able to see these small Saracens.
Goglmaps seemed to disagree.
-With all due respect m'lord... It will be hard.. These kobold slavers are nasty and they often hide in tunnels.
-But they must come out of them to watch for travellers no ?
-Yes, but they come from a tunnel and leave from another, they have a huge system of galeries here.
Strange, it was very strange... Even the Saracens in the massif des Maures were unable to build such wonders. You decided to ask the question to some of your companions.
-Is it true ?
Isnott agreed.
-Yes, the kobolds slavers, not the wild kobolds, have a very well organised society, a strange hierarchy and they are able to build a lot of tunnels from the underworld.
-You cannot smoke them out ?
-No, it leads to the underworld, a huge network of caves under the surface. We mine there too and we have colonies, but the Kobolds use it to travel and sell their slaves all over the world. They have even entire subterranean cities but most of the accesses are too small for humans.
