Heroic Combat: Wheels

These situations occur when you raid or are raided by your Samnali cousins, including the Northern Wheels of Naztalvan.

## Erildar Mercy Petition

### Dialogue

1. Attack the priests' guard.
2. Attack the priests' and the priests, too.
3. Fire warning shots at the healing cart.
4. Grant their request.
5. Kill <Enemy Chief>.

### Consequences

As with other similar events, a **truce** can let both clans regroup, meaning that whoever was winning the battle loses their advantage. It can also, sometimes, earn the other clan's respect.

### Notes

The dialogue here varies—the Wheel priests aren't always quite so spectacularly arrogant.

## Samnal Blesses Chariots

### Dialogue

1. Call on Elmal for a show of fiery favor.
2. Lead your side in the mocking song, Samnal Horse Thief.
3. Leap over a chariot, taking a sword-swipe at the noble who rides it.
4. Ride around the chariots, brandishing only a whooping stick.

### Consequences

If the hero succeeds at either of the last two options, they will be better at such daring, warlike stunts in the near future. This may translate into a bonus vs your next few Stunt tests.

### Notes

This event has Rider and Ram counterparts: Rider Hero, Flying Orlanthi Hero, and Berserker.

## Samnal's Monstrous Chariot

### Dialogue

1. Attack its attending priests
2. Fight the chariot as one would a monstrous beast.
3. Pray to Elmal to turn his weapon away from you.2
4. Rally warriors to rush it.
5. Pray to Hyalor to curse the workings of his nemesis, Samnal the Wheel.

### Consequences

**Attacking the priests** can often work, taking the cart out of this battle. But it will be back...

**Attacking the cart like a monstrous beast** will generally kill your hero, though they may take the cart out with them.

**Calling on the gods in the midst of battle** is always chancy.

**Attacking en masse** can work.

### Notes

If you mercilessly and persistently raid a single Wheel clan, they will eventually drive into the Gods War for a Samnal rite, earning this self-driving chariot. This is one of the reasons not to pick a single target like that!

## Wheels Injure Warleader

### Dialogue

1. Ride alone to <Warleader>, holding a banner bearing the Harmony rune.
2. Ride with armed escort to <Warleader>'s side.
3. Have <Cow Priestess> threaten them with weakened herds.*Only available if you have a Busenari noble.*
4. Have <Earth Priestess> protect her with earthshaking magic.*Only available if you have a Nyaldan noble. May be easier if you have a temple to Nyalda and/or a Nyaldan as your chief.*
5. Distract them by having your side sing Hyalor's satirical ode against Wheels.
6. Take no action.

### Consequences

If the healer fails, the wheels may slay your warleader, or let them live blinded as a ritual shaming. This latter is actually a workable outcome: while your warleader is wounded (sepia portrait, unable to act or give useful advice) while blinded, and this injury will not heal naturally, you can sacrifice to Erissa for healing on the Magic screen for healing, and she can take care of the problem.

**Take no action** may actually be safe for that reason—you can always heal the warleader later. Other actions may provoke the Wheels to kill your warleader now.

If you threaten a **cow curse**, you'll have the option of following through on it or not.