On rereading, perhaps not Burs:Santsarran is not dead (would Kenturah be that confident if he was?), he's been spirited out of the city. The win condition for a Temple Coup is seizing the Patriarch, Kenturah and our mystery komandir made sure that's impossible. And now that the Originator Juries have tipped their hand, you bet Burs' Steedeater must be marching on Nachivan: he can't let the Sanhedron fall. I think that's the trap that has been set: the Originator Juries are exposed as the traitors they are, and now they're stuck besieging a city while Steedeater fall on them from behind.
He seems to be in Ramayan, which is days away by train. He could have been moving before the Coup, if he was plotting with Kenturah, but if not he'll be too far away to intervene any time soon.High Ataman Burs, in Ramayan, has gone silent, and is no longer responding to requests from Nachivan for reports on his whereabouts.
It is the same for White-Gold, one of the most effective standards in Vaspukaran: Sarbadgar has struck up a friendship with its Komandir and elder Akabar Morsi, but Morsi's standard is in Makha circle, hours away by train.
Kedarkan, for the record, is in Makha circle. Morsi has taken advantage of the holyday to go fetch his Standard. Makha has declared for the Originalists, so he knows that the Coup has started, and he's likely on the way. If that's so, he'll be coming from the east, in Kineveh: another reason to seize the Hanaga Bridges.Some close enough to their estates and cities have even taken holiday, with the Elder Akabar Morsi returning to Kedarkan to spend a few days in his home circle.
Would there be any point in blowing up the railroads to delay the reinforcements?
What would even be the point if we did, we're the ones inside and the sword-alter outside, we'd only be destroying our own rails. They're not gonna ride the rails directly into our areas of control anyway, they'd just get shot up.
Such great oration. Best line ever!Massima Rachel reacts by calmly shouting, hands trembling that the Sanhedron has not given them leave to enter, and yells for the elders to fortify the doors with their own seats, as this is the time to stand and fight.
We are fighting against a bunch of circles so what could be a better flag than a bunch of squares.A patchwork of the colors of Vaspukaran, arranged from black to white, hastily conceived and put together by weavers in Old Nach and held aloft by Teoch for his ship, the sevensquare is the promise of the new. Vaspukaran does not need only the implements of the old, to appeal to old rites and old demands, but to create a Kingdom of God on earth by reforging the covenant with the Lord above.
The Ecumenical Banner of the Sevensquare
Just a Great Man doing great things, a mass jury sworn to defend the Home of God above the Patriarch and the Sanhedron should cause zero issues down the road.And each man answers with a cheer and an affirmation of the vow, hand held before his chest, and Sarbadgar then declares: With the power vested in me as a Komandir, I declare you, replacing the accursed Sword-Altar Standard, the Mass Jury of Vaspukaran, each of you made Jurors here and then!
And with sudden euphoria the mouflons, and low priests, even penitents and witches, all accept their title, and as Sarbadgar rears his horse back, draws his sword, and points towards east, they rush forward, banners fluttering as they march to save the Sanhedron.
This is the flood, and now it has an army.
The Hendar Uprising has sabotaged and blocked up the railway there so Tzinhas is more or less the terminus for the standards.
Right, the reinforcements are coming from the direction of Warabad (since they were originally gathering to fight Metamoa) so if we wanted to cut them off we'd need to push into Kentelken?