to be fair, 100 years, in historical terms, is relatively recent
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AHHHHHHH IM SO EXCITED, IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS! I fucking love the forgotten one, gonna go feral
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I mean if I remember correctly that was our sisters deal right I feel like we could (if we are the king)say that deal is moot as it was not us who made it and the one who did is no longer in charge (if alive) unless it was written in paper I can’t remember that would change things if imagine
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It would look extremely sleazy and piss off essentially everybody, and they fought tooth and nailed to get their independence back, they’re not going to give it up, at least I hope they wouldn’t. Additionally, I don’t even think that logic would even pan out, yes, you didn’t personally make that agreement, but you still represent the kingdom, as the monarch, so you’re still bound to the same agreement, is how these things usually work.
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Problem is, I think my mc would be shit at actually being a king, he has next to no patience for nobles and things like (diplomatic) protocol and he also hasn’t exactly had a completed royal education nor can mc read or write kroridian. All in all I think that would make my mc pretty shit at actually managing and governing Krorid. Plus he is gay and has zero intent of marrying, something very much expected of most kings. Nor does he, I think, even want kids.
None of those things are necessarily insurmountable, educations can be completed and reading and writing Kroridian can most certainly be taught but none of it would be instantaneous and until that process is complete mc would be weak, at best, as peacetime ruler. Given those facts it would also mean mc would be, for at least the first couple of years of their nominal “reign“ little more than a figurehead in practice, which may not even be that bad but it would require the mc to have a good de-facto prime minister to do nearly all of the actual work and what happens if that guy were to die or get replaced, particularly if that happens before mc is brought fully up to speed?
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Yes, there’s a mention in the game how the cathedral in the capital is a recent building and it’s also 100 years old.
A century really isn’t much on historical timeline – World War I was more than 100 years ago, e.g.
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Honestly, I hope we get an ending where Marshal just leaves. Like, the kingdom sucks, the nobles suck, Mira and Veldran are still around. Once the war is over, what’s stopping Marshal from picking up their stuff and leaving to go build a better live somewhere else?
Not taking into account Elya, Darin, the ROs. My Marshal wouldn’t leave cuz he loves his sister. But I think it would definitely be an interesting option
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Good questions, but regarding this in TFO (Morran, Morren, I don’t remember his name exactly) said that if it weren’t for the Marshal, the army wouldn’t have arrived in Krorid( when the rangers spot the collum of Elya) and he offers help only because he knows how his people view the Marshal and because he hates Rade.
He’s only in power because the former lord died; everyone worships the “Innae Dirriman.”
Everyone. Rich, poor, men, women, and most importantly: the veterans of The Borders War.
The Krorid nobility is small, and its forces are loyal to the Marshal.
I don’t think any kroridian noble would dare question an independent Krorid in control of the MC.
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At the outset maybe, but the fact remains that right now mc would be utterly shit at being a peacetime ruler. Like I said that doesn’t mean they always have to remain that way but overcoming that and learning is more likely than not going to be a process of years, not months and certainly not mere weeks. During which time a good de-facto prime minister is practically mandatory if mc wants their rule to be a success. Otherwise national hero or not I imagine many Kroridian nobles would be all too happy to try and use the mc as a figurehead for their own agendas.
To eventually be(come) a decent king of Krorid mc needs to luck out with their would-be Kroridian advisers, not impossible, but not terribly likely either. And of course with my gay mc it will likely lead to another unclear succession eventually as he will neither marry nor father kids. Also not necessarily insurmountable, Elizabeth of England managed to be a successful ruler while not marrying or having offspring but in the context of a medieval or renaissance world it is obviously less than ideal.
Not marrying is the one true freedom my has in his life due to the maiming. He is not about to give it up, particularly since with noble marriages you’re not just marrying a wife, you get her whole family with it too. It is not a commitment my mc would be at all prepared to make. Nor does he even want kids as he’d be a shit father a different kind of shit than Sobik but shit nonetheless. He would likely prefer to ignore any sons he may have entirely and barely even acknowledge them. He might be slightly better with daughters but still nowhere near a good or warm father figure.
The power of appointment is shit if you know nothing about the people you’re appointing and the mc knows essentially nothing about the Kroridian nobility so it would still be pure luck to get any decent ministers out of what is essentially a blind appointment. I mean mc knows so little about the nobility of Krorid he might as well appoint by pinning a mock donkey-tail blindfolded to a board of names. Any loyal and decent or good ministers that result would be pure luck.
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Mine isn’t gay, but that doesn’t matter. Even a homosexual Marshall can marry for political reasons and be secretly gay.
Have a facede marriage and get his wife pregnant. If he’s a bad administrator (this could be part of the possible game I suggested), he can appoint a Prime Minister, Minister of Exchequer or a Royal Treasurer from his Privy Council to handle these matters for him. Not even an Absolute Monarch reigns alone or without support.
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feels good to be king bro. this will definitely be peak
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He doesn’t need to become adapt in ruling? He’s already an OP war general so why move away from that?
He can instead marry or befriend a loyal companion who actually is adapt in administration and ruling leaving the mc to command and manage the army.
Edit: I wouldn’t go for ruling the entire nation and replace the queen tho, but instead ask the Queen to give independence to the jungle province, where the rangers come from, as a reward for ensuring the mc’s service
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Independence has already been given, via the events of the first game, so who becomes their new ruler is entirely on the Kroridians themselves. You just go there and hope your reputation and stature means you can take up all the oxygen in the room
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Oh yea don’t get me wrong if it was written I know how horrendous of a decision that would be however I could definitely see a mc with a war lust doing it if only to start a war saying “uh well actually i didn’t agree to that”or something along those lines
However if it wasn’t written in a contract or something to confirm it would stand if the war was won no matter what I could 100% see that being a valid option because he made that deal with the acting queen who wasn’t even coronated yet so I could definitely see you claiming the deal moot because of well that she was the acting queen not the actual queen at that time
And yes that would still cause an uproar from them however i could see some people even in their court agreeing with it
again I don’t remember the scene so I could be forgetting our charter also agreeing to it or something
Are we going to meet the new F/F RO on the usurper route too?
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This just seems like a really great way to flush all the goodwill MC has accumulated down the toilet, and put themselves in a situation where instead of being viewed with gratitude you spend next 20 years watching your back for people all too eager to shoot you with some crossbows.
In other words, absolutely braindead move.
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This is maybe the second or third discussion based around this exact extreme edge case that I’ve had over the last day and it’s really just as simple as this, you cannot reunite the two kingdoms under your joint rule because that would be breaking in agreement, no matter how official or unofficial it was, and dooming yourself to either endless warfare in the jungle or, more likely, just somebody shooting you
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if the mc became king he has good reasons to not let khorid become independent. iirc he went through hell to keep that place a part of kanton and to give up a chunk of the kingdom at the start of their reign would look really bad to everyone he’s ruling over
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Let me put it this way, after taking the throne, and rather blatantly backstabbing your sister, nobody has any good reason to trust you, backtracking on a deal that you were at least part of initiating makes you even more of an untrustworthy bastard. The other option is lose some far off territory That nobody really cares about anyway
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i cant remember if monarch mc made that deal or elya when they thought she would be queen tho it’ll be tough for monarch mc since theyll definitely side with elya since she’ll go to them for support
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