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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralts Bloodthorne" data-source="post: 3005257" data-attributes="member: 6390">Temblax TheocracyFormerly, this kingdom was part of Shadtree dominion, but fifty years ago, the War-God himself seperated the two kingdoms. The Temblax Theocracy, despite its name and origins, is ruled over by a joint council of clerics, merchants, and commoners. It is divided as follows:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> The "Light of Thargum", who is personally selected by the war-god himself, and rules as a semi-divine being.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Council of Lords: Containing high ranking clerics, powerful merchant families, and those who were made nobles by Thargum himself. Fifty two men and women sit on this council.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">House of the Commons: Contains 120 members, from the various commoner districts of the various towns and cities. Two votes in the House of Commons overrides one vote on the Council of Lords, allowing the House of Commons to overturn laws and treaties of the Council of Lords.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Meeting of Races: This contains five members of the following races: Half-elves, humans, halflings, dwarves, half-orcs, and gnomes. Any law, treaty, or decision made by the House of the Commons, the Council of Lords, must be voted into existance by 3 out of five votes by each of the racial representative. If the votes cannot be procured, the tabled propostion dies.</li> </ul>Beyond that is the fact that each city is ruled over by a handful of nobles, and each city is cut into multiple commons districts. This is where the members of the government are drawn from.Bribery, sponsorship, and piety make up how the government works. It can take months or years for a new law to be passed. Two years ago a noble spoke out on the floor of the Council of Lords against how the government worked. At the end of his speech, blood spurted from his eyes and nose, and he fell to the tile dead, the mark of Thargum appearing on the tile as the blood slowly flowed into the sigil. Dead silence reigned for a few moemnts, then the nobles body burst into flame. When the flames died, the noble was standing there alive, with wide eyes. Since then, the noble has been a stalwart defender of the way the government works, claiming that it is all in Thargum's vision, and that the people are the arbiters of Thargum's will. Since then, nobody has complained about how the government works.The general populace is educated at the temples of Thargum in reading, writing, and basic math skills. Every year, two of the pupils of the last year students (education takes four years) are chosen by Thargum himself to journey to Vellexa and enroll in the huge universities found there. Gold bars, bearing Thargum's sigil, appears on the desks of the enrollment clerk, along with an image of the students.Last year, a clerk in Vellexa tried to shave the gold bars, and was torn apart by wild boars while walking down the street, the boars charging out from alleyways and doorways, and vanishing back into the same.</blockquote>

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