Paksworld

A productive, 2000-word day, in which I finished the POV section I’ve been working on.

A Halveric sergeant and a couple of tensquads meet the unsurvivable and survive.  Well, sixteen of them survive.  For awhile, anyway.   My view of Halverics has always been from the Phelan side…and I thought they were more alike than they are.  (More spoiler warning!)

The Halverics and the forest rangers have the same basic goal, but they have different backgrounds and experience.

The rangers operate alone or in small groups, dealing with what comes up.  They’re intensely aware of the taig, and use both the taig proper and the signals given by animals and plants to determine what’s going on.  They have no tradition of formation fighting, but are deadly snipers.   They don’t wear much armor, as they’re usually in cover, unseen, and need to move quickly and quietly.

Halverics are veterans of the Aarenisian wars, used to fighting in large formations, often alongside other mercenary companies; they are all trained to use bows, but their primary weapon is the short sword.   As archers,  they were trained to shoot by volleys, and few are good enough to be effective snipers.  They wear protection, including helmets.   Although they can all ride, and have functioned as mounted infantry on occasion, they’re mostly pure foot.  If the contract calls for cavalry, either the employer or Aliam will hire a cavalry unit separately.

Although the rangers and Halverics want to cooperate, they’re still fumbling around a bit, figuring out who can do what best.

Now my hands are sore, so I won’t be doing more serious writing tonight.