Choice of Rebels: Uprising — Lead the revolt against a bloodthirsty empire!

[Norilinde]

@Eric_knight

Joanna could be the hidden spy … because she was one of the person who could get near the food , Breden made sound argument that why only half of the food was poison , it didn’t start from the cooking process

Well, since Breden and the other cooks left the food untended, anyone could have done something to it. Was there only one cooking pot for however many hundreds of rebels were present? Could we feed hundreds of people with only one possibly big cooking pot? If there was more than one cooking pot, maybe not all of the cooking pots or not all of the batches got poisoned? If Joana Orchard wanted the MC poisoned, starting up a conversation that would kill the MC’s appetite was a poor way to try to poison the MC.

@JustinM

I suppose the same is true for the Traitor? This is so GoT; realistic and visceral. Makes you second guess your decisions in a game, and think of the consquences for days when you have stuff to do irl.

Agreed.

@idonotlikeusernames

Hmmmm…I never thought of it, maybe because I didn’t think him quite that spiteful, yes he doesn’t like his kid and him poisoning the mc’s food, but poisoning the whole band to get to the mc.

I do not think it is any stretch of the imagination to consider the noble MC’s father spiteful enough to poison everyone. For an arrogant noble, there would be no issue with poisoning a bunch of helots. As for the helot MC’s father, that depends on whether or not you think the MC’s father may have betrayed the helotry to the Hegemony years earlier. It has been noted that the poisoning does not occur if Breden is not around, but I think that could also be explained by the MC’s father wanting Breden to take the fall since the MC’s father may partially blame Breden for the father’s change in life circumstances.

@idonotlikeusernames

And in my case hopefully connected to all of the important seas, eventually.
As far as my mc is concerned though Avezia is not Shayardene. But with that’s likely to be a moot point with all the new administrative divisions that are going to arise.

My MC is currently leaning towards Umri for an eventual capital. If it turns out that my MC is more closely aligned philosophically with the anti-Xthonic philosophers of old Erezza and that those philosophies are still popularly held in modern Erezza, then… you win and my MC would also probably pick Avezia . Though I would note that the strategic value of having access to the sea might be slightly lessened in Avezia’s case if the strait at Aegre is narrow enough that whoever controls Aegre or the opposite side can deny surface passage to ships from Avezia. Admittedly, the Grand Canal would lessen though not eliminate that concern.