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Old 02-21-2021, 07:05 AM   #675
Michael Cule
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Default Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems

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Originally Posted by SolemnGolem View Post
Behind (or more specifically, underground below) the corridors of politics, a powerful lich sets most policy through a covert police. The lich is primarily concerned with magical advancement of the art, and sees the establishment of a utilitarian mercantile state as important to its goals. Its covert police have a mission primarily to keep the Sovereign Council in line, the tribunes and syndics weak enough so the aristocracy never reforms, and the guilds loyal and orderly.
I think the trigger for stories would be an idealistic young politician who once in place in the elected hierarchy and seeking reform discovers that things don't actually work the way they have been taught they do.

They should have the protection either of a god who wants the truth brought to the surface or some innate protection (Luck and Magic Resistance perhaps) that means neither mundane nor magical attempts to rein them in work.

EDITED TO ADD: And, of course, the noble young reformer should not have the slightest clue that they are anything special. The gods choose who they love but they don't always bother to tell the beloved how they feel.
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