People are screaming. Very loud. Fire is all around them, and it is no barbeque. The whole city is on fire and everybody runs in terror.
A passer by who asks what's going on only hears: "The warriors are coming.. the warriors are coming... the warriors.. run for your life!"
The man quickly checks his insurrancepapers for 'warriors', then runs in terror, just in time.
A big group full of Orcs, Trolls, Lizardman, carrying all kinds of poisoned and burning arrows storms in. After them, their leader, a simple human being, protected by his evil company, calls out real hard (and wishes he had a megafone): "THERE'S NO WAY OUT. YOU CANNOT ESCAPE! YOU KNOW WHAT WE WANT! WE WANT... TO KNOWLEDGE...."

All kinds of villages in this areas have suffered under the enormous power of this very evil group. No village had any idea what they wanted. Lot's of adventure party's have tried to defeat them... and failed. All hope has gone.
Of course people have tried to find out what they really want. They want to knowledge?
In the city of Smart, many intelligent people or people who considered themselves to be intelligent (this happens a lot) have formed a councel to debate about the matter.
After a lot of arguing, because of the many different opinions or made-up different opinions made by people who think it is smart to have a own point of view and who don't want to admit they agree with another because he will look smarter than them, a spokes-person came with their conclusion.
"People of Smart!," he started, "first of all I would like to thank you for the patience you've had with our debating in this very difficult times."
"Hurry up!" the people are shouting.
"Shut up! I'm thanking you for your patience!" he calls back. "Anyway, we all know that Orcs and Trolls and Lizardman aren't very clever. You could say that there are more brains in my lunchbox then in their whole army. Their leader, a human, must know this and further more we believe that the proverb: "Knowledge is power" has come to his attention. That's why we believe he wants to increase the power of his group by violently seeking knowledge. The spelling error: 'we want to knowledge' is probably a result of their lack of it. So when they get here, we just give them knowledge."

A few weeks later, after everyone has agreed with the solution, the city is under attack by the 'warriors of knowledge' as they are called. "A whale is not a fish because it doesn't lay eggs" one calls out to the evil-doërs.
Another one shouts: "Breathmints can come in handy for every Orc."
Later on the whole city is destroyed and the citizens ask themselfs what went wrong, while the councilmembers smile friendly and wave a bit, while quietly walking to a half-broken sign: "You are now leaving Smart".
And so the warriors didn't want knowledge, appartantly.

One day a simple human boy and a girl were walking around, just talking, when suddenly the evil faces of a big group of Orcs, Trolls and Lizardman were before them.
Behind them a man called out with a, by now, hoarsh voice: "WE WANT TO KNOWLEDGE!"
The girl scaredly jumped behind the boy and didn't hear a thing out of fear.
When see dared to look, she saw the boy and the leader of the group shake hands. After this the party walked away in a friendly matter, all of them going in their own direction, while throwing away their weapons.
"How did you do that?" the girl asked suprised.
"Simply," the boy said. "My name is Ledge, now they know me and are happy."

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