The Senate evolved more out of the union of the tribes and eventual city states that made up Iudia rather than a single kingdom. As for a founding myth, there are several competing ones that emerged during the period of religious strife before the Church of Gaia consolidated, as such Kyro’s history is rather murky, being built on the ruins of whatever it was that came before the Iudians.
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Whatever came before, not whoever?
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@Aeternitas the Eagle-Eyed strikes once more. Great catch. Now, excuse me while I go fit this one word difference into my Aliens Theory.
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Since there are competing theories in-universe as to what preceded civilization as Iudians know it, I was being a bit vague to encompass them.
LOL.
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Not sure if this is a mistake, but if you choose to play as a cisgender woman who isn’t a lesbian, the text on the next page says (in relation to your late husband): “you had spoken about adopting children” (which is the same piece of text you get if you’re trans) - why we need to adopt though (as opposed to having a child naturally)?
Which makes all the more sense to invite her as councillor!
Thanks for the catch, that’s misplaced. I’ll go in and fix that.
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Colour video of an interaction between Watch Commander Marcella and a distinguished Senator at Scilla Galeria “Twit” Ursinus’s funeral, discussing about the Empresses’ legacy. That’s actually the dialogue of that video.If you’re curious search “scottish lady too bad too bad”
No essay today. Just wanted to say I love Marcella the Watch Commander. Mostly because she and I share a healthy amount of disdain towards the deceased Galeria. I’m pretty sure she also roasted the latter at her funeral, if she had one. Also, she has a Scottish accent. Definitely.
Thank you @sleepy2 for reminding me of her greatness.
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Ah I remember that piece of news few days have been so glorious in Scotland since Bannockburn itself, the day the warmonger met her end the world cheer save of course her supporters back at the local pub.
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Thinking about taking her solution in regards to the riots. Especially since the people’s opinion stats seems to to up lol!
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I know there’s a lot of focus on the “being a lover to the Empress” path but I’m digging the scheming sorcerer route myself. I hope there are more interactions with our venerable mentor and matriarch of our Order.
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It surprises me that there isn’t an option to tell the order that we are teaching sorcery to the next empress, sounds like something that should be mentioned to our superiors
Now this is something I did actually go back in and edit in my new draft. The Mater will have an interesting reaction to that, to be sure.
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Speaking of the sorceresses, does an all-female order of shadowy, magically inclined advisors and political masterminds, allegedly serving an Imperial throne while furthering their own ends, remind anyone of Dune’s Bene Gesserit?
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100% agree on the parallels.
To go a little further, I wouldn’t be shocked if we eventually find out that the “creation myth(s)” espoused by the Church of Gaia are akin to what the Gesserit do through their Missionaria Protectiva: placing into “primitive” peoples’ minds the seeds of myths and prophecies that can further reinforce their control over Iudian society and/or guide it towards a path desired by the Church leaders. That is to say, they do some social engineering.
And truth be told, the Mater Sortiariorum aka the Mother of Sorcery is rather scary. She is described as positively ancient, with a great command over “terrifying magic”. Likewise, she is dressed in red and has her face constantly veiled. She also speaks about the future quite a lot, and seems to possess knowledge that normally one shouldn’t, like Julia’s disease (maybe she poisoned her? definitely a possibility). Quite a few comparisons can be drawn to the Bene Gesserit’s supreme authority, the Reverend Mother Superior.
Not related to the above, but I love how she basically says to a Sorceress MC “You’re in danger? Here, take this grenade (yes, a grenade). Just throw it at your enemies and they’ll blow up”. Truly the Mother of Sorcery, inventing grenades before it was cool.
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I don’t know if this is a spoiler or if this is possible within this universe but theoretically if a man learned women’s magic and was caught what would be his punishment? (hides my MC with the aim of knowledge)
Death in the simplest of things cant go having the greater number of people figuring it out would be bad for there control lol
Which is why the threat of that one guy is even more trouble for the empire and its power.
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Well, I’m not sure there’s a formal punishment, since it’s not supposed to be possible. What’s the punishment for learning how to fly, for example?
The sorceresses would absolutely have you killed and discredited, though.
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Unless you manage to run away in the far east of the world, use the sorcery you learned to create your own empire, destroy some other empires, and then go and kill the people who wanted to kill you. [This message has been sponsored by the Witch-King]
“Oh no, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions”- The Church of Gaia, probably
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As said above, officially there is no punishment, because it’s viewed as not possible.
Now unofficially…who can say? Certainly if any men have attempted to learn sorcery before, they are not heard from again.
Though on the point of the man called the Witch King, the official Iudian stance is that he gains his magic from being possessed by demons, witchcraft being the “dark magic” to sorcery’s “white magic” to use terms to draw an analogy. At least, that is what the Church and Empress say.
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