NK - Pennsic

[Merrik Viltar Har]

Oh lighten up, it was just a light hearted joke type thing.
I forgot that the "Greate Darke Hoarde" can't be joked with unless it is on
their terms...

Merrik



????  I confess to not understanding how my Khan's and my Andas' actions
amount to disloyalty.  We ride the wild lands between the Laurel Kingdoms.
Even if you consider us resident aliens in the lands you claim, to which
kingdom do you believe we should be in fealty?  The Middle, where we first
entered the Current Middle Age?  The West, Mother of Kingdoms and the Heart
of the Imperium?  Or, as you seem to imply, Ansteorra, who claims the lands
where our current Khan now pitches her ger.  Our current GurKhan (Warlord)
throws his in lands claimed by the MIddle.  There were Hordesmen in
attendance who came from lands claimed by over half the sixteen Laurel
Kingdoms, and we have members in ALL of them.  Or do you feel we should NOT
come together as a single unit but find service each with the Kingdomers
nearest us, and oppose our Brothers and, some of us, our Khan?  In that
case,
in what sense would we be what we are, a nation apart?
Our Khan has served this Barony and the Kingdom it is a part of faithfully
and well since shortly after the Shire was renamed Northkeep.  I will not
accept civilly any implication otherwise.  The fact that she has done so as
a
Northkeeper, but as a Hordesman and not as an Ansteorran speaks all the more
highly of her in my opinion.  It is also in keeping with what and why we
are.
 The Dark Horde serves the Society apart from any accidents of geography.
We
are nomads.  As such, the focus of our loyalty is fixed and unchanging.
There are Ansteorran knights and others who once swore fealty to the crown
of
Atenveldt.  Now Atenveldt and Ansteorra are as likely as not to take
opposing
sides at Estrella, Pennsic, or the Gulf, forcing those unfortunate ones to
act against those old oaths.  I know, they were released, no dishonor is
involved.  But the focus of no Hordesman's loyalty will ever be changed by
anyones's will but his own.  We ride apart, but we do so with no pretense,
no
duplicity, no doubt, and no disloyalty.
I was not involved in the bargaining my Khan did with the participating
Crowns, so I won't comment on the revenue matter.