Möhbius of Numalia
Mongoose
Hi everybody, I'm fairly new here...
I have always wondered about the frontier the Picts share with the other almost-hyborian kingdom: Zingara. Of course, no data are offered in the original saga and, AFAIK neither in the following books.
Some ideas on that? I can imagine a bit different kind of picts here because the terrain is mostly hills and not deep forest (100% my imagination). The Zingarians would have a permanent legion of conscripts stucked there, suffering from fever, mosquitoes and other nuissances. Its officials and soldiers slowly turning mad because of an enemy they usually can't see (but who everyday kills someone anyway) with some of them going as far as in fact selling part of their equipment (knifes, swords, other iron tools) to the picts (they can pay them back... let's say feathers covered in gold dust, furs, young women, or wathever).
One of the most mocked Zingarian nobles would be the poor guy sent (as a punishment, I suppose) there to manage the complete frontier business. He is the only military commander in Zingara who cannot put this troops into use in their national sport: civil war.
I have always wondered about the frontier the Picts share with the other almost-hyborian kingdom: Zingara. Of course, no data are offered in the original saga and, AFAIK neither in the following books.
Some ideas on that? I can imagine a bit different kind of picts here because the terrain is mostly hills and not deep forest (100% my imagination). The Zingarians would have a permanent legion of conscripts stucked there, suffering from fever, mosquitoes and other nuissances. Its officials and soldiers slowly turning mad because of an enemy they usually can't see (but who everyday kills someone anyway) with some of them going as far as in fact selling part of their equipment (knifes, swords, other iron tools) to the picts (they can pay them back... let's say feathers covered in gold dust, furs, young women, or wathever).
One of the most mocked Zingarian nobles would be the poor guy sent (as a punishment, I suppose) there to manage the complete frontier business. He is the only military commander in Zingara who cannot put this troops into use in their national sport: civil war.