Wars

Wars of Gor:

Common Gorean Army is usually no more than 4000 - 5000 men   Vagabonds of Gor pg 19

• Mercenary Bands often number no more than 100 - 200 men

Prisoners on Gor often stripped:    Vagabonds of Gor pg 346

• forced to stand out
• easily recognized as prisoner or slave
• difficult to conceal weapons
• gives understanding of the power over them

Diaries:   Magicians of Gor pg 188

• field diaries attributed by many to Carl Communius, of Argentum

The battle between Port Kar and Tyros/Cos occurred on the 25th of Se`Kara in the first year of sovereignty of the Council of Captains in Port Kar. Vagabonds of Gor pg 108

• using chronology of Ar - 10,120 C.A. (contasta Ar, from the Founding of AR)

In the delta:  Magicians of Gor pg 249 - 250

• Vicinius commanded the 4th Vanguard
• Toron, of Verna, commanded the 3rd Vanguard
• Honorius, commanded the 14th Vanguard
• first subaltern - Falvius
• second - Camillus (pg 249)
• 14th defeated in South Tracts with the 7th, 9th, and 11th
• 3rd, 4th and 17th were defeated in the North (pg 250)

Insignia of the company of Artemidorus:    Vagabonds of Gor pg 51

• a sword grasped in the talon of a Tarn

Slave Wars:    Vagabonds of Gor pg 272 - 273

• occured among various cities in the middle latitudes of Gor
• off and on over a period of a generation
• much of merchant law (that pertained to slaves) grew out of the slave wars
• standardization of the female slave
• as a commodity
• how in virtue of scarcity, training, she is to be figured as an item of tribute
• terms of other domestic animals
• current market value
• obtaining women, one major reason Goreans fight
• sport, the other

Kaiila Wars:   Vagabonds of Gor pg 271 - 274

• slave wars can be compared to them
• southern hemisphere
• fought among factions of Wagon Peoples
• acquisition of the lofty silken Kaiila
• common mount of the Wagon People
• acquisition of female slaves almost an afterthought
• Tuchuk Brand: 4 Bosk Horns
• Kassari Brand: 3 Weighted Bola
• Kataii Brand: Bow Facing Left
• Paravaci Brand:   Inverted Isosceles Triangle surmounted by a semicircle
• symbolic representation of the head of a bosk

Second War between Harfax and Besnit:   Vagabonds of Gor pg 273 - 274

• practical victory for Harfax
• Besnit surrendered slaves
• selection of high caste daughters to be made slaves
• now allies:
• bold plan by high caste women of Harfax
• permit men of Besnit to select 100 (equal to the number taken by Harfax) to be enslaved
• proceeds of sales went to the public treasury of Besnit
• done by lottery after training
• inside city
• outside city

War between Port Olni and Ti: (Before Salerion Confederation)   Vagabonds of Gor pg 273 - 274

• Ended in Truce
• motives almost solely the acquisition of slaves