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dynastic

Is in my range of interests and thus I shall PTW this.

You decide to Proclaim Religious Equality.

Inter-faith conflict will no longer be allowed within borders of Methiant. Theological differences or not, various cults and congregations will have to either learn to live in peace and cooperation, or face fines, jail time, or revocation of their priviledges.


News come from the north; your soldiers and your two sons scored a major victory against the Agaresians, wiping out almost five thousand of lizard riders in truly brilliant tactical envelopment. Thundercats and Cydwyllian cavalry forces also played major factor in the victory.

Few days later you receive a letter from Connan, however, which seems a little bit pessimistic.

In the letter, he describes growing differences between him and Houlandin, shortages of Fireblood (Cidric's court isn't very punctual nor generous with resupply), and the fact that there's alarmingly large number of Agaresian reinforcements every few months.

In the final paragraph, he pelads for you to extend emergency mobilization and send some supplies through Tiftit, as he doesn't believe his brother-in-law's courtiers, especially his elder relatives. You muse about your reply to Cidric for a while.

As for emergency mobilization...

A) Decide to extend it for another year.
B) Write that you cannot strain people's backs with distant, foreign wars this much.

As for supplies...

A) Agree to send supplies, but through Cydwyl Kingdom, because hiding stuff from your allies is a bad thing to do.
B) Sadly inform Connan that there's a bit too much on your head (and Treasury's back) to send him stuff.
C) Agree to send supplies through Tiftit, just like Connan asked.

You decide to use your administratorial superpower once more!

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MILITARY EDICTS:

Matters of military hierarchy, philosophy of war and development of military tech.

Issue the Codex of Training Regimen:
A set of efficient (and slightly draconian) requirements and practices of training to ensure that the Army gets only the best recruits of them all. This will make the Army much better in combat, although there might be a problem to fill yearly recruitment quotas sometimes.

Establish the Shadowranks:
Politics often involve underhanded tactics. A castle full of commoner staff and visiting foreigners just asks for a disaster to occur. Let's have the military form a professional division of most loyal of soldiers, who would protect the Emperor, his family and important state officials, during the day, night, war, peace, revelries of festivals and monotony of daily life.

BUREAUCRATIC EDICTS:

Matters of administration and government.

Establish The Council of Statesmen:
Creation of a small council of governmental officials who will be tasked with helping the government run smoother alongside traditional advisors, and, of course, the monarch himself. This will help strengthen the Imperial Authority, even in dire times, and help pass edicts quicker, although giving even more political power away from the throne than in the past might become a source of troubles one day.

Expand Primogeniture Law:
A string of bad luck can render a monarch without a male heir or cause succession debates. Rather than risk some unpleasant consequences of such a situation, it might be better to allow a skilled female to ascend to the throne, especially if she is as good at matters of the governance as any other ruler.

Establish Passage Tax:
All those travelers, adventurers, merchants and others are moving through the country for free! Let's establish a tax for those entering and leaving our country - this will earn us nice profits each year, although it might slow down immigration and convince some merchants to seek passage through elsewhere.

CULTURAL EDICTS:

Matters of religion, culture and art.

Proclaim Religious Equality:
Travelers, merchants, immigrants; they all bring new beliefs and philosophies into the country. Rather than fight those foreign influences, it might be best to allow all peoples free worship on equal level no matter the size and beliefs of the congregation, to help all different worshippers achieve a certain degree to harmony and peace.

Establish Calendar of Festivities:
Rather than throw a festival every few years to celebrate a bontiful harvest, let's instead establish a cyclic and stable calendar of state-sponsored festivities for the whole year. This will cause a drain on the Treasury, but hey - people love festivals!

REVOKE EDICT: Revokes a previously implemented edict, either to cut spending, appease some disgruntled subjects, or both. On the other hand, it might tick off some other peoples, potentially causing a deadly cascade of discontent.

Late Spring, 1135 AD: Established the Fireblood Court:
Creation of a specialized military branch devoted purely to development of Fireblood arms to ensure they are aplenty and of best designs around. This will allow to centralize the production, research and budgeting of Fireblood weaponry rather than having some errant alchemists and engineers running around, trying to make things happen.

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You let him do as he pleases.

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Unfortunately that does have some repercussions. Once agian, nobility and officials state their dipleasure with what they call 'a scandal', and of course the Alldivinist front doesn't think of it well either. You can be sure people are displeased and don't think of you well as an Emperor for letting your children to stray from the faith of your grandfather.


According to news from the north, the battlefront has been quiet for past weeks except for few very minor skirmishes.

As the days pass, you cannot help but admit that you see this young maid Siria in different light. You find her long brown hair simply lovely, and her sparkly green eyes like emeralds. Every time she brings you food, you feel certain dose of excitement. Every time you talk with her, she seems elated to be near you. Your wife has recently died yet your heart and body aches for a companionship of a woman, it seems.

And from what you've heard from some of the kitchen matrons, Siria apparently talks about no one but you when it comes to men.

A) My heart underestimates my willpower. Infatuation will pass!
B) This will only bring bad luck. I have to dismiss Siria right away.
C) My sons are adult and my dynasty secure. I can do what my heart desires!

You order execution of the most corrupt engineers and alchemists, while others are thrown into dungeon, degraded in ranks or heavily fined. Eleven are killed, seventy other punished.

More loyal and moral, albeit less experienced youths are put in their place.


News arrive from Cydwyl frontier; many skirmishes culminated in a big battle where over sixteen thousand Cydwyl, Methiantese and Dahnian soldiers fought against ten thousand Agaresians, most of them mounted on their fearsome war lizards. The battle was won. and less than thousand Agaresians left the battlefield alive.

There are bad news about the battle, too; allied Army lost a third of their soldiers. Furthermore, your son Houlandin has been wounded in the face, and healers are racing to save his left eye.

A new messenger arrives five days later; Houlandin is now one-eyed, and while he says he is fine, many believe will never be as good and skilled maceman as before.


Another report comes from Cydwyl; three more battles were fought against Agaresians, each time about a thousand of those easterners were slain.

There is a letter from governor of Ceodwell; he reports that many Parsian Alldivinists have arrived in past months in his province. Local Cloisters are taking care of them, while his administration is attempting to settle them down or help them move further westwards.


Gold and silver arrive at your capital, are then repackaged and sent to Cydwyl per your agreement with Cidric last year.

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Metals mined in the east provide profits, but glassware outdoes it; the demand for it is higher than last year and thus the price climbed up. That didn't bother the buyers amongst your nobility and local merchants, who praised both quality of the wares and you for supplying them with it.

You receive doubly joyful news; Abis gave birth to another child; it's a girl she named Ela. And the same evening, a messenger brought a letter from King Cidric; his dynastic line has been ensured because your daughter, Eirika, gave birth to twin boys, whom she named Erik and Estjald.

Meanwhile however, not all is well in recently conquered land of Eval; there is lots of insability there. Administrators report that many Evalians in the cities are grumbling aloud about being conquered peoples.

A) They will grumble for a while and then get used to it, no big deal.
B) Maybe if I throw some money their way, they will calm down?
C) Ungrateful scum. I gotta send some troops there to remind them of their place!

You decide to send some money to eastern Cloisters. The Battlebrother praises your name and leaves in hurry.


There's an uproar in your administration.

Turns out that previous system of engineers and alchemists working on Fireblood was not only inefficient but very corrupt. Your officials, once they got to the private ledgers of the researches, found that over the years lots of money was being siphoned into pockets of high-ranking men. Unfortunately, those corrupt men are the best specialists Methiant have, and while your officials believe nobody should escape the law, military officers say that Methiant cannot simply discard these men and start anew.

A) That is true. Punish them with heavy fines but do not harm them. The Fireblood Court will need their services, even if they're a tad bit immoral.
B) No! We cannot tolerate corruption; the worst offenders are to be executed while others thrown into dungeon, even if it will set us back few years (hopefully not more).