(March 2, 2014 at 9:46 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Elisha was the Emperor's (aka God) emissary on official business. When the kids insulted him they were insulting the Emperor. Elisha sicced his guards on them and the guards killed the offensive kids.Elisha was pretty progressive, keeping a pair of female guards in that time. At least, I choose to interpret it that way because it sounds kind of cool that he had two female guards that had no compunctions about grabbing a sword and opening up a massive cask of whup-ass on a bunch of snotty kids. Extra points if they were dressed in the skimpy "armor" that female characters get to wear in MMORPGs.
But as an aside, there were bears in that area in ancient times. The writer probably used bears as a metaphor for how ferociously the guards attacked the kids.
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