The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum - View Single Post - The Barrow Cache, with speculation on the Reason for the WK sending

Alfirin · 11-03-2009, 10:02 PM

That's a good point, Izaldun. The main counter I can give is that when I came up with the idea I was assuming that the WK woud be thinking along the lines of removing the chance of ANY Cardohan weaponry getting around ever, if there was none than he was for all intents and purposes completely invulnerable (as fare as he knew). Fornost indeed may have (and probably did have) had a bigger weapons cache but that may have been depleted during the actual battles and once the WK actually did overrun Fornost any "anti-modor weapons" would likey have been rounded up and destroyed. I would also point out that the fact that Fornost had a larger weapons cache in toto doesnt neccary mean that it had a lot more of the "special weapons". We have no idea just how common such weapons were, if every weapon Cardohannese smiths froged was equally effective or whethere they were rare things reserved for great warriors and cheifs. If they were is is possible that as most of the barrows (especially the later ones) were for people of high rank and honor princes and nobles of Cardohan they might have had an unusally high quantity of the weapons.
I never meant to say that the weapons were the ONLY reason the WK sent the wights, just they may have been ONE, and also may eplain why he LEFT them there rather than say recall them when he had finally overrun Fornost and Arnor had fallen (if he had the power to send them out he probably had the power to call them back)
I also wanted to point out that, much as we do not know the extent of the weapons cache of the Barrows we also don't know the spirit summoing power of the WK. The "more important things" argument really only holds if we assume that the WK had few enough wights at his disposal to make the force he sent to the downs of some siginficance. For all we know, it could be that the WK could, if he needed, summon up thousands upon thousands of such spirits under his command; expending the handful he sent to the Downs to watch over a handful of weapons might have been of utterly no cosequence to him.

11-03-2009, 10:02 PM	#3
Alfirin Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 435	That's a good point, Izaldun. The main counter I can give is that when I came up with the idea I was assuming that the WK woud be thinking along the lines of removing the chance of ANY Cardohan weaponry getting around ever, if there was none than he was for all intents and purposes completely invulnerable (as fare as he knew). Fornost indeed may have (and probably did have) had a bigger weapons cache but that may have been depleted during the actual battles and once the WK actually did overrun Fornost any "anti-modor weapons" would likey have been rounded up and destroyed. I would also point out that the fact that Fornost had a larger weapons cache in toto doesnt neccary mean that it had a lot more of the "special weapons". We have no idea just how common such weapons were, if every weapon Cardohannese smiths froged was equally effective or whethere they were rare things reserved for great warriors and cheifs. If they were is is possible that as most of the barrows (especially the later ones) were for people of high rank and honor princes and nobles of Cardohan they might have had an unusally high quantity of the weapons. I never meant to say that the weapons were the ONLY reason the WK sent the wights, just they may have been ONE, and also may eplain why he LEFT them there rather than say recall them when he had finally overrun Fornost and Arnor had fallen (if he had the power to send them out he probably had the power to call them back) I also wanted to point out that, much as we do not know the extent of the weapons cache of the Barrows we also don't know the spirit summoing power of the WK. The "more important things" argument really only holds if we assume that the WK had few enough wights at his disposal to make the force he sent to the downs of some siginficance. For all we know, it could be that the WK could, if he needed, summon up thousands upon thousands of such spirits under his command; expending the handful he sent to the Downs to watch over a handful of weapons might have been of utterly no cosequence to him.