Politics

[Iscah]

I think there's one more consideration to make. As a shard of Azem, we're descended from a member of an elite, nepotistic circle of tyrannical despots who unilaterally made decisions on behalf of the rest of the world for thousands of years. From a roleplaying perspective, we need more opportunities to lean into that. There is a fantastic opportunity for us to build a clique of powerful friends that goes on to form a world government for the entire planet, ushering the shards into a new era of prosperity under our iron fist. Now that the Scions and Ascians are no more, we finally have the potential to make that dream into a reality. Consider the following:

Hildibrand

Vanhudi: Let's get straight to the point: I want you at my side. With the Vaunted Warrior of Light as the template for my clone army, we could conquer this and every other land in creation!

> 'That... that's not a bad idea, actually.'

Hildibrand: 'Ah... ha ha ha! A splendid jest, my friend. A splendid and... not-at-all-indicative-of-suppressed-megalomaniacal-ambitions jest... yes?'

<long silence>

(Lv.90, Gentlemen at Heart)

I'm sorry, am I missing sarcasm here? Because that sounds way outside the roleplaying scope of this narrative.

Mamool Ja mercenaries have been in Limsa Lominsa for 5 years and some have even broken away to make their own society in Vylbrand, butchered the locals to make their own castle, and actively assault adventurers. I don’t believe we’re going to Tural to do the same thing and the idea of such is flawed.

Plot twist: we already defeated the warmonger guy and the news just hasn't gotten around yet.

[MikkoAkure]

Plot twist: we already defeated the warmonger guy and the news just hasn't gotten around yet.

I thought about that as I typed that but let's open up the book and see what it says-

WAIT A SECOND.

Molaa Ja Ja's purpose for crossing the seas to Eorzea was to win glory and strengthen his claim to the throne of the Autarch, ruler of all Mamool Ja. Upon arriving, however, he struggled to find employment for his warband, and in a bid to make a name in this foreign land, he took the drastic step of capturing a piece of it.

"2-headed Mamool Ja ruling warbands and fighting each other over who will be Autarch" is old retconned lore, along with "Mamook" or "Mamool Ja" being the name of the nation, but it would be hilarious if we get all the way there to find out we already killed him.

I would expect that the 4(3?) princes/princesses are on the poster and the only unknowns to us are the Miqo in the white coat, the Mamool Ja at the bottom, and the mysterious Hyur on the top. Either they're all claimants, or one or two are not important (or alive) enough to be on the poster and the other characters are just other important characters.

[Lady_Silvermoon]

Plot twist: we already defeated the warmonger guy and the news just hasn't gotten around yet.

I would actually find that funny.

WoL whispers to G'raha: Is this like the 12 where we're not supposed to admit we've killed this guy?

[EdwinLi]

Plot twist: we already defeated the warmonger guy and the news just hasn't gotten around yet.

I will not be surprised if that is the case.

WoL has done so many things already, it is hard to not have accidently resolve something before it happens.

I am more curious about how the Golden City is going to play into this though.

I am guessing one of the challenge for the throne may end up being to find the Golden City and claim whatever item the candidates need to get to win their tournament.

Either way, Wuk Lamat is acting as more than the person we are obviously going to support in the tournament for the throne. She is also our sponsor for adventuring into Tural to find the Golden City which we always have in each expansion when enter a new region. Though I do notice our sponsors tend to be involved in Politics most of the time.

WoL has been lucky so far with always getting Sponsors into new regions since those sponsors always cover a lot of basic needs for WoL where most adventurers had to pay out of their pockets or get permission directly from the Adventurer Guild.

At this point, it feels like every new expansion we should expect someone with political influence sponsoring the WoL for traveling into new regions since these guys always provide WoL his/her always free Inn rooms.