Making your enemy into a servant is like 99% of how warfare works so it should be easy.
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No way in a Kingdom where, in the old demo, being nice to people and not just killing everyone or chopping off their hands or having positive emotions can be propaganda-d into liking pirates when they aren’t even willing to consider not mutilating children for stealing.
It really isn’t an easy spin having a princess run away with a pirate, it’s a massive snub to potential allies that pirates were chosen as a marriage match over them and it’s just seemingly not something the Kingdom would take well. Honestly Freya vs Richard perception is really interesting in light of the “worst,” decisions both make? I always find it interesting that Freya seemed more popular than Richard during the last version of this game and in this one. Richard is the way he is because of immense pressure and the strangest parenting choices ever given the odd thing of Charles favouring him but that 1-on-1 attention also makes Charles more critical and more aware about his flaws.
Richard seems in just as fucked and rubbish of a situation as the MC.
Freya seems loved by all, allowed to do whatever she wishes within the confines because everyone knows she won’t get the throne and she hates everything because she cannot run away with a pirate. Given our Kingdom is oddly very specific about hating thieves and pirates, and seemingly so are our neighbours, I’m so curious how she met a pirate long enough to fall in love with one to the point she’ll run away with him. But I really feel like her doing that is far worse than Richard being upset about an arranged marriage.
Oh yeah and drugging the palace guards, that’s fucked.
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I have noticed that as well: Freya is always the popular one. And she’s the luckiest as well. She doesn’t have to learn, she doesn’t have to train, she can do fuck all all day and still be liked by her family and peers. The only one against her is Atheris and at first, I couldn’t understand it but the more I think about it, I am surprised my MC hasn’t been given the option to yell Freya’s ass off yet.
I really really really need that option in the future, PLEASE.
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Another really dangerous thing about Freya and her attitude is that everyone knows that the sword or whatever is behind it sometimes makes unconventional choices. So if it decided that MC is just as much a wrong 'un as Richard and Atheris it could potentially choose Freya. Which would result in Rhivenia having a queen that doesn’t want to do the job, has already been breaking the law, is and has been rather cavalier about castle and royal family security, is unable to do the job for lack of relevant education and can’t even find the country she’s supposed to rule on a map. I don’t understand how she’s so popular when the people know that the sword, even if chances are low, can choose anyone. They should be even more concerned than we are, because we at least have the money to flee to an allied nation.
Also, that’s going to help vastly when she runs away with her lover. "Babe, where are we?’ “I don’t know, how do you read these things?” Real good idea when you might have to run from multiple governments and an irate pirate crew. She’s so interested in art that cartography never caught her eye? That’s impossible, particularly as ornate as maps used to be. She just plain didn’t want to learn anything that could ever, possibly, in any kind of way be considered practical or preparing herself to rule.
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It has been said before: Freya looks at things through rose tinted glasses. She doesn’t understand nor realize the necessity of even the most basic of skills except painting (guess she never thought she would leave the castle.)
She is a liability and danger of the highest order (the woman drugged the guards protecting the gateway to the castle. You cannot say she knows what is going on in the real world and then do something that puts her and her entire family in danger due to love)
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There’s actually a very easy way: You’re not being nice to them, you subjugated them.
You don’t say that part obviously. That’s how propaganda works.
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If she doesn’t care about the throne, what about her family. She behaves like a child and she is not even the last born.
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Is a new chapter out after getting chosen by the sword
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Nope 
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It might be out on patreon sometime around the end of this month or sometime next month if I guess correctly 
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She cares,but like Richard she let’s her desires overwhelm her comon sense and love over her family. That why Richard challenged us and freya goes after pirates. And we have to clean up the mess.
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Betray and finish them when war is over
though it’s ally kingdoms which can be problem than subjects because they won’t be attacking rhivenian ships.if they are attacking allied kingdoms then making them ally can result into losing allied kingdoms.
Pirates doesn’t worth losing our allied kingdoms
As long they don’t attack on rhivenia and them i am fine till end of war after that maybe we can get rid of them as well.
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Betraying allies is one of the ways to make other allies go. Uh. Hmmm.
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Think you’re massively oversimplifying how being a royal would work, we saw in the last game they’re more than happy to attempt to overthrow/coup you - it doesn’t matter what you say but what they think and how they take it.
And alright so we “subjugate,” the pirates - we’d be allied with one specific pirate faction and even then Freya’s lover is on the outs with the pirates - to keep them subjugated we’d have to expend resources we do not have and to ensure the alliance we’d have to make concessions that would be deeply unpopular.
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I think you’re massively overplaying people not liking pirates, by that logic our country would never end any war, never take any territory and would just genocide 100% of the enemy population every time while making sure whatever place they fought was fully inhabitable forever.
Hell, the civil war should have never ended because those rhivenians really hated those rhivenians during that time so surely they weren’t satisfied with winning and being the bosses.
As royalty, managing what they think and how they take stuff is literally your jobs.
You get the benefit of more troops and all the money and ressources that come from raiding your enemies’s coasts, trade lines and basically parasite off any neutral economy that rely on the sea, all with perfect deniability ('I didn’t do it, you just got attacked by pirates like everyone else, including us!"). That’s how corsairs worked IRL and it was a very effective method that people didn’t mind despite hating pirates.
Why the hell would an ally want ressources that we do not have? The point of an alliance is that both of you profite because you need your allies to be strong.
1: What unpopular concessions? The only thing the average person would care about is that you’re the conqueror of pirates.
2: How would most of population even know your deal or what concession you made? Even most nobles wouldn’t know the king’s exact dealings and pretty much any noble involved would be pretty happy to not be attacked by pirates anymore AND get extra income.
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What I don’t get about this whole thing is why doesn’t the pirate guy just stop being a pirate. That’s just his job. Just hire him as a guard at the castle or something and boom problem solved. I mean it’s already been said that the pirates are (somehow) banned from the kingdom so they can’t get him even if they wanted to, and I don’t see why they would want to in the first place. Are they gonna attack a whole kingdom because one low ranking guy deserted?
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It’s not that easy. If anyone finds out about his past it will hurt us espacally if they find out we knew and still hired him and him being freya’s lover too. The walls have ears after all and someone may know he was a pirate. They may not let him go because he infomation that can hurt them like the location of their base at the very least.
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He’s an insignificant henchman on one of a hundred pirate ships, I don’t see why anyone would have any information about him or be able to connect him to anything. And if he became a guard he could just hide behind a helmet.
But if he was in our kingdom they couldn’t do anything about it. We already know he sneaked off the ship and into the city multiple times. I don’t even understand why he went back in the first place.
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All that is need is one victim of a pirate to see or the pirate tell them info themsevles to get rid of a loose end with out doing anything. Because Rhivenians have proven to be bloodthist and seem to be the types to try to kill someone the second they leave the castle even if we say don’t kill him. These are the same people had the bright idea to make a play insalting the royal family and think it would never come back on them. They dumb enough to try and he have proven dumb enough to put himself in a sisutaion it can happen. I don’t care if it happens. it would just be a pain to deal with freya in the aftermath. She would do something extremely stupid.
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what is everyone first few acts as rulers going to be? I want to set up a spy network and try to manupulate the pirates and ewin’s army into fighting each other then destoy them both.
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