The Peshwah

Troop Details
# (sans Leader), Location Armour hp Peshwah Warrior Band 30HH, 25HC/EH Leather 6 DA3 p. Peshwah Warriors HH 12HH Leather 6 DA3 p. Peshwah Warriors EH 10HC/EH/PH Leather 7 DA3 p. Peshwah Warriors forest 8 Leather 8 DA3 p. The common warriors start in a band led by a 2 nd-level commander. constitution go on unled missions; smaller band, higher demand. Source Leader 28 2 28 28; DA4 p. 35 29 Warriors with more

The Peshwah
Sul Peshwan Dawlish Lishtok Naktok Lyntok Static Populations Eastern Hak High Hak Winter Population Eastern Hak High Hak Summer Population Warriors NonCom Population 1000 1000 2000 400 400 300 300 300 300 300 300 2300 1000 3300 2000 3000 5000 1000 4000 5000 2000 7000 9000 1000 8000 9000 4000 10000 14000 2000 12000 14000 Horses Grazers 4000 300 800 100 500 50 500 50 500 50 6300 550 6000 11000 17000 3000 14000 17000 2000 5000 7000 1000 6000 7000

Sum.-Win. Offsets 0 0 0 0 0 Total Population 7300 10000 17300 23300 7550 Sul Peshwan, in population and military strength, is comparable to Wookum, Glendower, and South Pim. It is more stockade than city. This chart shows a demographic emergency. 42% of the population is concentrated in the warrior range (compare with the Afridhi at their height: 23.5%). It looks as if the Peshwah are forced to kill off its own non-combatants, and to stop bearing children. This could only be a result of the Afridhi conquest and continuing harassment. The Peshwah will not long survive at this rate. Interestingly, the Peshwah fear invasion through the east more than through the north, and through the north more than through the west! The west must be impassable to the Afridhi, and we know that the north is very defensible (and very defended). On the other hand, the east lies under the shadow of the Hills of Gor, from which the mountain-bred Afridhi could descend with ease. 1 The Peshwah consist of a dozen horseclans 2, of which the more influential warriors wear loose clothes of rough, nubby silk, one of the few things for which the Peshwah willingly trade. 3 They tend to be bandy-legged and sun-scorched, with skin like fine old leather and dark, dark eyes. They do not carry nor use money. The domesticated grazer plays a significant role in the Peshwah economy and religious life. 4 The hide is worth 300 gp, and is especially valued for armour. The grazer used to be threatened by hide hunters (the Fetch estimated 75 in the High Hak, summer 1025), but the Duke has promised the

1 DA4 p. 29: this is no typo. 2 DA3 p. 44 3 DA1 p. 60 4 DA3, 4 p. 37

Peshwah he would punish hide traders with execution. The hunters are a dying breed. 5 Some may yet defect to the Afridhi, a deal which would save their hides (as it were). The most savage Peshwah horseclan calls itself the Bortai. 6 They are distinguished by their small, round, target-type shields. Shepro spent his early years with them in the Plains of Hak, just before Uthers rebellion (presumably fighting Afridhi). The Bortai have been pushed all the way across the High Hak to the Dragonia border. As of the end of 1024, the Peshwah Confidence Level was very low, as they were questioning their leader openly and loudly. The Hand of the People was Bortai, but of unknown origin. 7 The state of the Peshwah leadership to-day is unknown, but in autumn 1025 they were still raiding Afridhi posts in the Plains.8

5 DA3, 4 p. 38 6 DA3 p. 44 7 DA1 p. 60 8 DA4 p. 29