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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bleys Icefalcon" data-source="post: 6750614" data-attributes="member: 6670542">Interestingly enough, years ago we had a group of players  take over a country when the king and much of his court fled the capital city when it was being attacked by a barbarian hoard.  The most charismatic (player and character) was Maki - a thief, who became King.They managed to rally those townspeople and guardsman who remained behind and held off the siege just long enough for the Southern Army to arrive.  Afterwards the General of that Army, the King's nephew (though he was older than the King) was astonished to find that the King had fled, and that a vagabond was in charge.  Everyone was astonished when the General bent his knee to his new King.How Maki ran things was two fold:  "An eye for an eye" and "Try to make the right decision"The right decision was that which made life better for his subjects.He was clumsy as a King at first, and had to survive two assassination attempts before cleaning out his old council (they were behind both), and elevating a new council from merchants and farmers (and the master of the local thieve's guild - who became the kingdom's spymaster).He abolished serfdom, and even though slavery was not prevalent (it existed, just not extensively) he decreed that illegal as well.  He also ordered all businesses closed at mid-day on mid-week, and cleared a massive amount of land just north of the city and built Wemia - among other things a massive retirement home.  Wemia is arguably one of the most beautiful cities on my players gaming continent, with fountains and streams and dozens of small temples and wandering priests to tend to the needs of the aging populous.Maki died almost 50 years ago, in the Abyss of all places.  Alea, his queen rulled for another twenty years or so before abdicating the throne for their second son Enlil - who's onw son Makil now rules.</blockquote>

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