Olar Ethil said:
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For anyone else who would like some motivation, High Princes can recruit and Osseric is the last one. It's in everyone else's best interests to remove him before they get recruited away from the faction they are currently playing for.
Well considering it looks like I'll be going down, I guess I'll throw out as much info as possible on mechanics and see if we can't swing it to hunt the Parshendi. So for starters, yes I'm Dalinar and yes I have the limited ability to recruit dependent on the gemhearts. So as you keen people will realize, I haven't been able to recruit since day 1. Sadeas could have recruited 3 times and Tharandar and the Parshendi could have recruited 2 times a piece. Granted, they probably didn't all land, but it does mean everyone here should be wary of who they trust.
OE is doing some great fear-mongering, while completely forgetting about the Parshendi. I'm curious how he seems to know as much as he does. Considering he wants the rest of the game fought between "Brightlords and lesser roles," I'm definitely leaning towards Parshendi. OE isnt even considering them as a threat on thread, probably to downplay it and have everyone think I'm the real threat when, as I've noted before, the Parshendi can continue to get the gemhearts and are probably the strongest remaining faction.
Early in the game, I had said that I doubted that the Parshendi could recruit based on the book and my belief that they have 7 in the faction, however that was before I realized they could claim the gemhearts and knew the roles. I had mistakenly thought that the princes were warring against each other for the hearts, while the Parshendi just wanted us to not get them. Considering they have gotten 2 hearts now, that gives the potential for 2 recruits. Their leader/ faction is by far the biggest threat yet remaining in the game. At this point in the game, I am the sole counter to their ability to gain gemhearts, because I can fight them to a standstill dependent on numbers, but we need to see today's result. So with that in mind I need to survive or they will run away with th game. Checks and balances at its finest. At this point I'm outed, but it is better to know who their leader is before I go down so that we can both die in one bloody night.
I hope some of the Alethi factions recognize the sense in that and work with me. It's obviously I'm vulnerable at night so I'm quite sure if I survive this, I'll still die to a NK. Plus there is the whole fact that I can do nothing without gemhearts. Much like Dalinar in the book, I'd like the Alethi factions to work together to achieve the elimination of the Parshendi. I'm relatively sure that OE is one, more likely a recruit that leader, so I'll need to try to find the big guy before the day ends. Any questions?