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Originally Posted by ericthered
If you shrink down the great desert a little, you can end up with a connection between Caithness and the orc lands. That has some explosive potential.
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Agreed, especially if Derenal (the leader of the revolt against the king) is still alive. He'd sooner see Caithness a wasteland than give up his ambitions. My suggestion about canal building depended on Derenal's death.
Still. a war to defend Caithness against the orc hoard could be epic.
One possibility might involve a mage who used to live on Earth and before they got caught in a Banestorm. This mage would have been a graduate student in English constitutional history with a deep interest in peasant and working-class radical movements. The mage might convince the king that a "House of Commons" might aid in giving his rule additional legitimacy. If Conall knows the mage is a serious scholar and is convinced that a "Parliament" would be an end-run around the rebel lords then you have both a game of political intrigue and an epic war game.