Well I support multiple trade routes, personally. Multiple paths sort of deal. Prevents 1 tile being blockaded from knocking out the whole trade network. Which means Taricus/criptfiend should connect to me, and Phantom should connect into Hubris.
Fluff!
Commander Bright's Field Journal. Late Summer, 1005.
I hate forests. Though this forest had a sense of unspoken, timeless beauty. As we followed the Iron Road, to the well established orcish city of T'sen Ang, I was filled with a sense of peace, So I doubled the guard as not to appear incautious. The local Orcs have much in common with their brethren in Villvale, and to appear unwary would invite contempt, and attack.
One could safely assume that they had gone out of their way to make the city both impressive from an aesthetic and militaristic point of view. Taking the walls was, in our grand tradition, Easy. Though once more I suffered a wound when an opportunistic longbowman decided I, standing 'alone' would make an excellent target. Cursed phantom soldiers and my own inability to lose myself in a 'crowd' of them. Oh, and they wont take arrows for me. I swear they go completely insubstantial just to cause me physical pain.
Falstaff finds such concerns hilarious. I would dearly like to take his head for his little 'jokes'. But his value to the Lord Traveler, is immeasurable. As is my own, though in deference to wanting to grow old, I've requested a position slightly further back from the front lines. And some better armor.
I am interested shall I say, with.. the..well I should say culture of this place. It is worth exploring.