HELP ME with Modrons Please

manuzed78

First Post
Hello everybody,
i have a homemade world huge like a continent like US or Europe.
There was 19 kings and we had many adventures but now
a king just won, thanks to the modron society and his armies...

Can u help me imagine a world where modrons (and all the hierarchy ) serves as local police and law bringer

All tips and ideas are welcome :)
 

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Quickleaf

Legend
Hello everybody,
i have a homemade world huge like a continent like US or Europe.
There was 19 kings and we had many adventures but now
a king just won, thanks to the modron society and his armies...

Can u help me imagine a world where modrons (and all the hierarchy ) serves as local police and law bringer

All tips and ideas are welcome :)

It would be utterly terrifying, reducing the law to its letter rather than spirit. Ancient laws no longer applicable to present day context that most had forgotten of might be reinstated by modron peacekeepers. "Ask not what your kingdom can do for you, but what you can do for your kingdom" would be taken to the extreme - no room for individuality or special needs; some sages might aspire to attain "modron mind," utterly abandoning the self. Society might be mobilized toward the "great power of the working class", albeit slowly being stripped of humanity.

There would likely be a Hexaton serving as general of the modron army that fought alongside the king. Because death off Mechanus mean a hierarch modron won't be reborn but rather disintegrated & absorbed into Mechanus, it's possible the Hexaton and other hiearchs might be circumspect about exposing themselves (and possibly the modrons in their care) to danger, preferring to let local human constabulary handle most cases with light modron support (to ensure no one is charmed or bribed or otherwise improperly applies the law). The Hexaton would have a personal guard including one septon, two octons, three nonatons, five decatons, and 25 pentadrones.

The Septon would be like a traveling legal scholar and inspector, ensuring the law is well implemented on the regional level. It would likely have traced back a complicated legal basis to "prove" the king's just rule via ancient scrolls of birthright or concessions of territory. Local administrators would scurry to prepare for the coming of "the inspector."

Each Octon would oversee one nonaton, who in turn commands one decaton, who controls five pentadrones, then 16 quadrones, 81 tridrones, 256 duodrones, and 1,728 monodrones through the chain of command. Depending on your demographics, this might have been sufficient numbers to tip the balance in favor of the current ruling king. The Octons likely serve as regional governors, one overseeing a territory widely regarded as the kingdom's pride and joy – an embodiment of "efficient" rule and "perfected" law, while the other oversees a protectorate or recently conquered territory rife with unrest. They would rely on reports from human sheriffs/reeves or even rangers, assimilating as much information as possible in their towers (which may have portals to Mechanus).
 

What springs to mind when I think of Mechanus and Modrons are two things. Order and Precision. I think in a justice system created and maintained by modrons, there would be no time off for good behavior. Your sentence is your sentence, and must be served out as dictated. With their communal mindset, I think most punishments would be forced labor, rather than imprisonment or death. The worst they would give is solitary confinement, which from their point of view would be a fate worse than death.

The laws themselves would be exactingly specific. Was the banditry committed on horseback or afoot? Were the stolen goods personal or governmental property? Was it in winter or summer that the crime was committed? And so on and so forth.

The other option would be that Modrons keep the peace, but have no concept of lawbreakers, because none of them could ever understand how or why someone would do that.
 

timbannock

Adventurer
Supporter
It would be utterly terrifying, reducing the law to its letter rather than spirit. Ancient laws no longer applicable to present day context that most had forgotten of might be reinstated by modron peacekeepers. "Ask not what your kingdom can do for you, but what you can do for your kingdom" would be taken to the extreme - no room for individuality or special needs; some sages might aspire to attain "modron mind," utterly abandoning the self. Society might be mobilized toward the "great power of the working class", albeit slowly being stripped of humanity.

There would likely be a Hexaton serving as general of the modron army that fought alongside the king. Because death off Mechanus mean a hierarch modron won't be reborn but rather disintegrated & absorbed into Mechanus, it's possible the Hexaton and other hiearchs might be circumspect about exposing themselves (and possibly the modrons in their care) to danger, preferring to let local human constabulary handle most cases with light modron support (to ensure no one is charmed or bribed or otherwise improperly applies the law). The Hexaton would have a personal guard including one septon, two octons, three nonatons, five decatons, and 25 pentadrones.

The Septon would be like a traveling legal scholar and inspector, ensuring the law is well implemented on the regional level. It would likely have traced back a complicated legal basis to "prove" the king's just rule via ancient scrolls of birthright or concessions of territory. Local administrators would scurry to prepare for the coming of "the inspector."

Each Octon would oversee one nonaton, who in turn commands one decaton, who controls five pentadrones, then 16 quadrones, 81 tridrones, 256 duodrones, and 1,728 monodrones through the chain of command. Depending on your demographics, this might have been sufficient numbers to tip the balance in favor of the current ruling king. The Octons likely serve as regional governors, one overseeing a territory widely regarded as the kingdom's pride and joy – an embodiment of "efficient" rule and "perfected" law, while the other oversees a protectorate or recently conquered territory rife with unrest. They would rely on reports from human sheriffs/reeves or even rangers, assimilating as much information as possible in their towers (which may have portals to Mechanus).

Boom! Perfect.

The newly seated king in all likelihood is only king because of some technicality of the law that the Modrons support, and thus is likely pretty garbage when it comes to ruling a thing. But any attempt to unseat him goes against the rule of law, and that means rebellion will be met with the full force of the Modrons' power. What this screams to me is looking over their stat blocks to find their weaknesses, and any rebels will employ that. On top of that, the possibility of turning any Modrons rogue is going to be a primary means of weakening their power base, and/or turning the populace against the Modrons.
 

manuzed78

First Post
Boom! Perfect.

The newly seated king in all likelihood is only king because of some technicality of the law that the Modrons support, and thus is likely pretty garbage when it comes to ruling a thing. But any attempt to unseat him goes against the rule of law, and that means rebellion will be met with the full force of the Modrons' power. What this screams to me is looking over their stat blocks to find their weaknesses, and any rebels will employ that. On top of that, the possibility of turning any Modrons rogue is going to be a primary means of weakening their power base, and/or turning the populace against the Modrons.

Indeed, the idea is the populace is against the modrons like it was against the king but they have no choice and now, with modron police, turning rogue is VERY difficult (except for PC?)
It's no easy way to imagine every day life as commoner, paesant or trader...
One another fact: modrons are in the cities, but the world is huge and rogue may easily hide in countryside.
 


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