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Gorean Book Quote Requests
Requests 1-173 were asked and answered back when there were only 25 books.
Also, some of the early questions were unintentionally truncated and cannot be restored. However, the answers are shown in their totality.
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| 71 | "one is looking for the quote from Tarnsmean of GOr where he talkes of the Siege of Ar and the siege engines that Pa-Kur imployed to batter at the walls and to weaken the defences of Ar and the defences of Ar at the time what did Ar used to avoid the Sieg
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Hello,
Well the description of the siege of Ar is quite lengthy. Here though is one paragraph which describes Pa-Kur's siege engines. If you have Book 1 you now also have the section of the book which describes the entire attack in detail.
I wish you well,
Fogaban
It began several hours before dawn, as the giant siege towers, covered now with plates of steel to counter the effect of fire arrows and burning tar, were slowly rolled across the ditch bridges. By noon they were within crossbow range of the walls. After dark, in the light of torches, the first tower reached the walls. Within the hour three others had touched the first wall. Around these towers and on top of them warriors swarmed. Above them, tarnsman met tarnsman in battles to the death. Rope ladders from Ar brought defenders two hundred feet down the wall to the level of the towers. Through small postern gates other defenders rushed against the towers on the ground, only to be met by Pa-Kur's clustered support troops. From the height of the walls, some two hundred feet above the towers, missiles would be fired and stones cast. Within the towers, sweating, naked siege slaves, under the frenzied whips of their overseers, hauled on the great chains that swung the mighty steel rams into the wall and back.
Tarnsman of Gor Book 1 Page 178
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