Uh, the crows noticing our attack shouldn't matter too much. We can still fight and defeat the ghols fairly easy due to our numbers advantage if they're prepared or not.
Yes, we crush the ghols and then we get caught on an uneven terrain with our forces spread out.
Why if there so much focus on defeating the ghols when they are the
bait and not the trap? What is there to be proud of about being able to take the bait?
The crows noticing an alliance designed to sow rebellion in the Watcher's ranks however? Yeah, that's going to matter. At the very least they'll notice the ghols returning our stuff which will cause the Watcher to be incredibly suspicious.
It is so by design. Or do you think that one of the necklace bearers vanishing from the Watcher's radar is not suspicious?
That is what we are planning. It is not a surprise attack on the Watcher, it is separating him and the ghols. I don't get how is this an objection.
Either way it's probably going to result in their extermination, making the entire effort pointless from the start, assuming the ghols even go for such a deal, which I don't think they will.
Why would that outcome concern us? It was mentioned in the very update we've read that the Trow have genocided their slaves, but they still perished in the end. Are
you showing concern for the ghols now?
I don't know about other ghols, but Nanshe would go for it. She also claims to have control over her tribe - and it is very doubtful she is lying, since there is absolutely no sense in tricking us when she does not know of the plan. It would be akin to lying about her favorite color - utterly poinless, if you ask me.
What makes me go for it is that the plan is so unorthodox and wonderfully mad, it is bound to catch the Watcher and his mage unprepared. They have fought the Light for too long. No servant of the Light would consider releasing a ghol prisoner and aiding them, no matter their goals. It just happens that we have the ingredients necessary to make it work. At least I think so.
For the moment all I want to do is not to play in their hands and not spring their trap. If it all goes smoothly, we will not have to engage in battle at all.
As for a trap, it's possible. It's also possible that the magic is completely harmless. We don't know. They are at the least not very strong.
Yeah, right. The raid was planned by the Watcher's creature, there is a fuckton of crows around (isn't it customary for a raiding party to be accompanied by hundreds of crows? no? thought so. Even the army we faced before had less), and it's all harmless. Sure.
We've seen the white mage, and I absolutely do not want to meet him again unless he is outnumbered 50 to 1. Our chosen school of magic is largely worthless against him.
And I suspect it is the same creature, or at least someone of the same strength since there is a rumor about him being an immortal. It might be that there are several creatues so indistinguishable from each other that the others could never tell them apart, or he might be an actual immortal. Besides, him making the most upsetting report (Mazzarin's return, what else?) implies that he is still around. Either way, he is an immence threat.
The magic signal only reveals its full power when he is casting, and we are quite far from his location.
That plan will leave hundreds of potential WPs standing around unclaimed even if it goes off perfectly, no thank you.
Jewgoldz. Jewgoldz never change. We are opposing a being of thrice the Spider Goddess power, with armies ten times the size of hers, and all we can worry about is money.