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Clara Skyborn:
--- Quote from: Lord Dick Tim on May 10, 2013, 01:39:53 am ---So ya, that's my mental vomit. I'll likely be doing something like this for each faction just for the sake of getting conversations going, or to nudge some devs to chime in with an "actually... Your wrong Tim, go back to your whales".
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--- Quote from: Wazulu on May 10, 2013, 06:17:51 am ---EDIT: I love it when Muse come over and go: 'What the hell are you folks on about? Take those foil hats off and maybe you'll listen to our lore!'
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Really? I feel kinda bad when I keep dropping in and going "UR ALL RONG," but if you like it...
Waz is a little closer to the mark, the king is definitely not an elected position. Lord's Leap, the Kingseat, got its name when the first king of the current reigning dynasty (Dahlberg) secured his title by having the last prince of the old house and the two lords who were his closest supporters thrown off the 200-foot waterfall that is the city's most prominent geographical feature.
Also, internally (and now, I guess, externally) I do often refer to the Baronies as the "Game of Thrones" faction. Actually, the artist who did the faction concept art just watched through the entire series at her desk while she was working on the Baronies...
Lord Dick Tim:
It gives me a direction to continue going on a tangent.
Dynastic rule usually is what follows an elector rule anyways as one king garners enough power to change the legal system to which they have pledged to uphold.
Since its the got faction definately going to throw emphasis on blood relation, minor vassal count and monetary potential.
An interesting note, does it have a professional retinue of men selected from levies across the realm, or does it still rely on vassal bondage to raise levies from fiefs? The later decentralizes the naked power of the thrown, the former increases it vastly but brings more of the nobility closer to court to garner for power through commercial, marriage and industrial might.
These aren't absolutes of course, a levy system where the king simply has all the largest military fiefs would still mean the king has all. Or if their lanister rich, they can just out fund anyone else.
Ofiach:
Is this a Divine Right style of rule like Japan. Or is it more along the lines of "Chain of command. That chain I beat you with till you know who's in ruttin command." OR along the lines of family line kingdom, that ocassionaly gets overthrown by its neighboring lord.
From the Video I couldn't really get a feel of how the King would happen. It still seems fuzzy to me that's why I was asking a bit more specifically.
Lord Dick Tim:
That's a good question, it would change the overall flavor of the baronies. Dynastic right by blood makes for tons of high born in fighting and possible dynastic conflicts.
Rule by divine right would shift the power balance depending on the power of the worshiping cult, if the ruler was head of church and state, or was church and state.
Ofiach:
I was also thinking along the lines of the Shogunate for an internal structure. Honor and loyalty are highly placed perhaps? Maybe not so much a Catholic style religious king but the Emperor is gods chosen and that's that you can only squabble so much internally because no one will overthrow that blood line.
Once again just throwing ideas around.
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