And it’s actually a more civilized form of how crowns are won or lost. The tourney is personal combat. One-to-one. The more historical and traditional method is civil war. And considering they are just now dealing with the aftermath of Lewie’s power play?
Of course, you don't need a succession crisis to start a civil war for the throne. A typical Roman method, for example, was to have the troops declare a new emperor and march on Rome/Ravenna/Constantinople and try to depose the old emperor.
Then again, many medieval succession crises came about by nobles or pretenders to the throne engineering a succession event (i.e. kill the king) when they thought they had a good chance at winning. Whether or not there was a legitimate heir was not necessarily important (and if it was, you can kill or disqualify them as well).
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Okay, compromise.
Nobility only, just like the systems (except problems from Stem Duchies and Roman Catholic Church) from Holy Roman Empire.
Eddy is a fraud who doesn’t even abide by his own rules (why hasn’t he been burnt as a steak by now?)
I really wish he had… The potential for chaos…
heh, just noticed ‘as a steak’ In most stories, I’d assume typos, and it should have been ‘at a stake’
Here, with the wide range of creatures, who knows…
Most times with me, it’s a bad pun 🙁
We tied Eddy to a big piece of rump-roast, and then we overcooked them both!
Eh, it works for the SCA….
And it’s actually a more civilized form of how crowns are won or lost. The tourney is personal combat. One-to-one. The more historical and traditional method is civil war. And considering they are just now dealing with the aftermath of Lewie’s power play?
Of course, you don't need a succession crisis to start a civil war for the throne. A typical Roman method, for example, was to have the troops declare a new emperor and march on Rome/Ravenna/Constantinople and try to depose the old emperor.
Then again, many medieval succession crises came about by nobles or pretenders to the throne engineering a succession event (i.e. kill the king) when they thought they had a good chance at winning. Whether or not there was a legitimate heir was not necessarily important (and if it was, you can kill or disqualify them as well).