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** The [[Discworld]] also has the Battle(s) of Koom Valley, a recurring set of conflicts where dwarfs and trolls would wallop the hell out of each other, largely for reasons of tradition. The source of the conflict (your standard tragic miscommunication with a twist or two) was finally revealed in ''Thud!'' |
** The [[Discworld]] also has the Battle(s) of Koom Valley, a recurring set of conflicts where dwarfs and trolls would wallop the hell out of each other, largely for reasons of tradition. The source of the conflict (your standard tragic miscommunication with a twist or two) was finally revealed in ''Thud!'' |
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*** The history monks didn't make it any better when they used it to patch a bunch of holes the first time the timeline was destroyed. |
*** The history monks didn't make it any better when they used it to patch a bunch of holes the first time the timeline was destroyed. |
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** One of these also appears to be central to the events in ''[[ |
** One of these also appears to be central to the events in ''[[Monstrous Regiment]]''. Bonus points because it was a religious war, ordered by a Small God who has since been [[Survivor|voted off the pantheon]]. |
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* The war in ''[[The Lost Fleet]]'' has been going on for over a hundred years between the evenly matched Alliance and Syndicate Worlds. For the Alliance its a simple matter of "They attacked us first!" For the Syndics, well... {{spoiler|they were hoping to wipe out the Alliance with the help of some unseen aliens. Syndic then went and pissed off the aliens who then tricked them into attacking alone resulting in the ongoing war.}} Not that they'll ever admit that. |
* The war in ''[[The Lost Fleet]]'' has been going on for over a hundred years between the evenly matched Alliance and Syndicate Worlds. For the Alliance its a simple matter of "They attacked us first!" For the Syndics, well... {{spoiler|they were hoping to wipe out the Alliance with the help of some unseen aliens. Syndic then went and pissed off the aliens who then tricked them into attacking alone resulting in the ongoing war.}} Not that they'll ever admit that. |
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* In ''[[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]],'' by Mark Twain, Huck gets caught up in a feud between the Grangerford and Sheperdson families. This is a new concept to him. His friend Buck Grangerford explains : "Well," says Buck, "a feud is this way: A man has a quarrel with another man, and kills him; then that other man's brother kills HIM; then the other brothers, on both sides, goes for one another; then the COUSINS chip in—and by and by everybody's killed off, and there ain't no more feud. But it's kind of slow, and takes a long time." "Has this one been going on long, Buck?" "Well, I should RECKON! It started thirty year ago, or som'ers along there. There was trouble 'bout something, and then a lawsuit to settle it; and the suit went agin one of the men, and so he up and shot the man that won the suit—which he would naturally do, of course. Anybody would." "What was the trouble about, Buck?—land?" "I reckon maybe—I don't know." "Well, who done the shooting? Was it a Grangerford or a Shepherdson?" "Laws, how do I know? It was so long ago." "Don't anybody know?" "Oh, yes, pa knows, I reckon, and some of the other old people; but they don't know now what the row was about in the first place." |
* In ''[[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]],'' by Mark Twain, Huck gets caught up in a feud between the Grangerford and Sheperdson families. This is a new concept to him. His friend Buck Grangerford explains : "Well," says Buck, "a feud is this way: A man has a quarrel with another man, and kills him; then that other man's brother kills HIM; then the other brothers, on both sides, goes for one another; then the COUSINS chip in—and by and by everybody's killed off, and there ain't no more feud. But it's kind of slow, and takes a long time." "Has this one been going on long, Buck?" "Well, I should RECKON! It started thirty year ago, or som'ers along there. There was trouble 'bout something, and then a lawsuit to settle it; and the suit went agin one of the men, and so he up and shot the man that won the suit—which he would naturally do, of course. Anybody would." "What was the trouble about, Buck?—land?" "I reckon maybe—I don't know." "Well, who done the shooting? Was it a Grangerford or a Shepherdson?" "Laws, how do I know? It was so long ago." "Don't anybody know?" "Oh, yes, pa knows, I reckon, and some of the other old people; but they don't know now what the row was about in the first place." |
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