[Discuss] Checking your current oath?

[Robert Croson, Jr]

On 27 Aug 2007 at 16:55, Tom wrote:

> On 08/23/2007 11:10 PM, Robert Croson, Jr wrote:
> > Are council members (judge, general, banker) not supposed to be able to swear 
> > oaths to a region lord? Every non-ruler council member I know of who is not a 
> > region lord themselves has an oath to some lord or other.
> 
> No final decision, yet.
> 
> It _does_ create a bit of a problem if you are, say the general ordering 
> your own liege to the battlefront, doesn't it? It creates loops in the 
> hierarchy - suddenly you are both superior and subordinate to the same 
> other guy.

Yes, it does. We've already run into that in-game, where a judge was accused 
of being in the duke's pocket, since the duke was the judge's liege lord.

It creates some interesting possibilities for suspicion and internal conflict. I 
suppose it also acknowledges the fact that different nobles have their own 
areas of responsibility. In one instance you may actually be the superior in an 
exchange. Change the circumstances, and the roles could very well be reversed. 
In yet another set of circumstances, you would force a moral confilct between 
enforcing the rules, and follow orders.

-- 
Rob

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