So Lalia's bitterness goes back quite a ways and she is really out to ruin Paladin. Pity she doesn't know that Paladin will follow her son as Thain - that in and of itself seems Paladin's revenge. I hope he has sufficent gold for pay the debt - most crops would have been sold in the fall, right? But then my knowledge of farming is hazy and I don't know exactly what is he growing/raising.
Author Reply: Well, I'm thinking spring cash crops... strawberries, wool (goodness, can you imagine shearing lots of sheep without help from hired hobbits?), spring greens. Perhaps the winter barley harvest would be in by then, dunno. Summer wheat and barley (and oats?) come in later, but I was thinking those would carry him through the winter and he depended on his spring crops to pay on the debt. Hope that sounds plausible. |
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