E.g. wear bandages to pretend, “Oh no, woe is me, I’m a burn victim”?
Will faking our deaths (and then proceeding to rule our faction as low profile as possible) be a viable approach by Game 2’s end?
What’s your plan for mitigating the political fallout of integrating post-Hegemony Karagon into your envisioned koinon?
And how close of a relationship does Reynard plan on having with Phaedrx?
To quote Havie on the Uprising thread: “Marrying the Diadoch/e will definitely alienate a huge number of your followers, however you try to justify it; you would be trading much of whatever you’ve built up on your own for influence on Phaedrx’s faction.”
Does Reynard optimistically believe that he can fully integrate his non-Xthonic allies as member states of his koinon, or might he instead settle for “economic only unions/separate arrangements” with the nonbelievers?
Considering that Reynard’s Cosmo tendencies are at odds with the Laconnier’s “hard nationalism”, what’s Reynard’s tentative plan for getting the Laconniers to support his claim as “the lost de Syrnon heir”?
(Or will Reynard’s monarchy instead be entirely started from scratch as a new dynasty, one whose foundation is “right of conquest”)
And do you imagine that post-Hegemony Shayard will end up becoming the US-inspired military backbone of your koinon/NATO? (or are you instead optimistic that you can get all the member states to equally share the koinon’s military burden/power)
(Quoting the Uprising Thread) and many of them appreciate the Karagond language and culture that let them form strong connections across provincial bounds.
@Havenstone : Terminology-wise, does leveraging Shayard and Erezza’s shared coastal cultural values (to aid the process of uniting them in any sort of post-Hegemony arrangement) count as a Homelander or Cosmo strategy?
(Context: one of my MCs is looking for a way to unify Shayard and Erezza in a manner that completely disregards/washes our hands of Karagon’s language/culture, so in addition to his existing plan to leverage his credibility as Eclect (or Inner Voice prophet), he’s thinking that the rumored/reconstructed history of a “precursor Shayardene/Erezzan coastal empire” might be an interesting “alternative culture” to rally behind)
My gut is telling me that this overlaps with the “soft nationalists teaming up with each other” topic we discussed earlier, but since the fundamental definition of a Cosmo MC is to eagerly welcome foreign allies/cultures (beyond Shayard), the Cosmo label has a certain appeal as well.