Quote Originally Posted by MReav View Post
I think Wanda was the one who betrayed FAQ.

Why?

She's (one of?) the last members of the Croatan tribe, not the FAQ tribe. Given she was one of the members of FAQ's officers, I can only assume FAQ had a militaristic history that subsumed Croata and forced her to work for them. So when Stanley presented an opportunity, she took it.
This has been brought up before. It's a mistake, though; go and look at the rest of the cast page. Nobody is in the "Gobwin Knob" faction; they're in the "Plaid" faction, which is otherwise unmentioned. Likewise, units from the city of Faq would not be members of a Faq tribe; they would have their own name for their tribe (which is, by all indications, Croatan.)

And Faq's Croatan tribe hasn't have a militaristic history; we know that much.

Quote Originally Posted by datalaughing View Post
One of the main arguments for Wanda having once been a predicamancer is that Banhammer would have had no need for a croakamancer.

I think you're forgetting what kind of person Banhammer was. He was concerned with philosophy. He probably had big discussions like what we saw in that one panel from Jillian's story. He didn't need to pop a bunch of soldiers because they didn't do much fighting (just the occassional merc job). So what is he going to spend his turns popping? If he wants to have philosophical discussions, he'll probably pop a wide variety of types to get a bunch of different viewpoints for his discussions. And this is pure speculation, but my guess is that casters are going to be, by their nature, smarter and more inclined to that kind of discussion than say a piker. So you want casters for intelligent conversations, but you don't want 20 foolamancers because then you don't have different viewpoints as such. So you pop a variety of casters. Hell, a croakamancer's way of looking at things could bring a very interesting new perspective to the discussions. And why not? It's not like he was in desperate need of anything else.
I like this theory. One of the nice things about it is that it explains not only why Wanda was croaked, but why she has such a wide range of abilities; King Banhammer would want his philosopher-casters to have the equivalent of a liberal arts education so they could discuss any topic intelligently.