Sorry, it’s a Latin borrowing into English – see definition three here, for pace as a preposition.
Ha! 
It might just be a little trickier than that.
K’s ready to work with them if they break ties with the old regime. “Corporate meritocracy” won’t be a thing for a few more centuries, though.
That’s one of the Game 5 special endings.
The canals I was talking about are arteries of long-distance trade, rather than urban waterways. Grand Shayard has some canals in its river district, running down to Osterport, the nearby port city; but I’m not thinking of it as Venice. CoG has some good Venice-esque games already, and I’d rather take things in different directions. And if I did have gondoliers, they wouldn’t be singing – the gameworld has had no Gilbert & Sullivan to launch that trope.
No. No gills, not yet anyway.
No. Sustaining or shifting Theurgic effects remotely is all but impossible – that’s Ward-wall level Theurgy, not something that even Cerlota knows how to do.
No – hanging out in the woods with a lone renegade (themselves a “hickard from the Rim”) doesn’t get you meaningfully closer to being able to pass in polite society.
And sorry, you’re not a double of anyone in your rebellion.
No – you don’t know the Westriding well enough to pass, and your accent (through Game 2) tells people you’re from the Rim. You’d be trying to disguise yourself as the scion of a Rimmer house too humble for most people to have heard of.
You’re a rebel-- about as unmarriageable as it’s possible to be, given that de Firiac’s parents are utterly unsympathetic. The only point at which you could pretend to be “formally” courting S. in your own name would be some G4 or G5 moment where social order has broken down so far that “formal” lacks nearly all meaning and the de Firiacs are too terrified of you to refuse.
It’ll need to!
There are plenty of well-off priests who’ve maintained connections to their merchant families, but no precedent for someone holding high rank in the Syntechnia while also being, say, an Archimandrite.
None or next to none. On this thread we end up talking a lot about how the MC might try to assert a claim, but being a Laconnier for 99% of people isn’t and can’t be about putting yourself forward as the one true king. Rather, it’s about finding meaning in the idea that the one true king is still out there somewhere, and that the future will be one in which your people can regain what they’ve lost over the centuries of colonial oppression. Given the intensity of Karagond persecution, Laconniers don’t expect to be told who or where the one true king is, let alone to be told it’s them.
They’ll all be claiming the gryphon–it’s gone beyond being just a monarchic symbol to be seen by all as the sign of the nation. At least for a while, until someone else whose claim has much, much deeper historical roots asserts themselves.
Empire-building just is not a humane project. Never has been, never will be – even in worlds that don’t have blood tradeoffs to handle.
Teren isn’t like any of the GoT figures, and doesn’t value one of your stats more than another. (Most ROs won’t.) They’re also highly unlikely to buy “I imprisoned them to protect them.”
Now, back to writing iambic tercets for the great Keriatou masque flashback…