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Originally Posted by littlemanpoet
My thought is that Athanar has roughly 36 men on horse, Faramund about 24. The advantage in numbers Athanar has is not entirely erased by the advantage Faramund has of being on defense.
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To me that sounds like a reasonable count. Although I must say that Athanar will not be on offence...
He's too seasoned and wise for that.
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I'm wrestling with how low Faramund would go: does he take the high road and give Athanar's men an out by allowing them to take their horses and leave, or does he take the low road and capture the horses and try to gain the upper hand by force? The latter would put him (even in his own mind) clearly on the wrong side of the law, which would ruin his self-justification, so I'm thinking he won't go there. High road it is.
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Also looking at the numbers of the men, the fact that lord Athanar is actually a commander who has led men in the great war, the fact that many of lord Athanar's men have served in major units of eorlinga (not to talk of the infallible original Mead Hallers
), it would be a decent decision on behalf of Faramund not to try his luck the low road...
What about Stedford? Have you any strong feelings about him
lmp? I see you write him sneaking past Faramund so I take it he's going to give the ledger to Athanar. But after that?
I think we could make him this dramatic hero who does what is right even if the consequences might be costly to him?