RE: [HOE] New Martyrs for all you Templars! (Long, Possible Spoilers)

[Patrick Gamblin <b7um@unb.ca>]

>===== Original Message From David R Goecke <mightygecko@juno.com> =====
>Those are great. I really thought makeing O'Mally a Martyr was a great
>idea. Those are all great. Although I can't say I know who Rommel is.

A german general during World War 2. Fought in Africa (known by some as 'the 
last gentleman's war'). Amazing general and tactician. As far as I can 
ascertain, he was never a supporter of Hitler's racist policies, just someone 
who (like Heinz Guderian, another incredible commander) thought that a 
soldier's duty was to obey orders (mostly, Guderian did disobey a number of 
Hitler's orders).

Rommel ended up being implicated in the bomb attempt on Hitler (though I don't 
think he was actually in on it) and was allowed to kill himself with poison 
over public execution.

>I made Saint Mustafa Kamal Saint of Mutants, and have been thinking about

Saint of mutants? I just did a report on Mustafa Kemal (aka Ataturk, leader of 
Turkey in the 1920s and '30s) today. Why mutants (or am I thinking of a 
different dude?).

>Bruce Cambell, and Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan as the patron of martial
>artists. Thats a tough choice. Bruce Lee is the hardassidol of kung fu,
>but then Jackie Chan is just so cool and campy!

I don't remember if it was something I made up a long time ago, or if it was 
something I found on a site a long time ago, but I have a version of Jackie, 
Saint of Humility. : }

>I also thought about two of histories great civil right leaders, but I'm
>noit sure they would have been so great in the Deadlands world, with
>civil rights advancing so much further than in the real world. Dr. Martin
>Luther King Junior Saint of Peaceful Resistance,

I think I had him as Saint of Peace.

>think of one... Think real hard... Scene 5, p. 34......

Gotta go look that up now.

Marshal Paddy

"As I look back, I see that it had been a mistake to send the letter. If you look far enough back, you will find that everything starts at some minor point. Something small becomes something very big. Something simple becomes complex. A brief moment of time becomes the focus of a tragedy. The letter was the minor point - something of no consequence that became the start of something of... importance." - Paul Thorgrimson, 'River of Blood, Path to Ruin,' October 2001