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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rhialto" data-source="post: 2206234" data-attributes="member: 630">I have to be honest--I'm not particularly thrilled with the "Astarin mainland" thread, which not only weaken the Aleasani thematically, but also add a really disturbing subtext to the Oldblood human supremist movement...Ehh, that's just my opinion, for what it's worth--after all, we can't run this by striking things off just because one person doesn't like them...My contribution--"Lady Ambassador--you ask me if my lord can guarantee he will hold to this agreement.  This shows your shallowness--I have no lord.  The Dromasi Council is a body of equals all pooling our abilities for the good of all.  We have no ruler, no monarch, no one man who is in charge.  We are free men."Nonetheless, I can offer you this guarantee--Chancellor Dracoln supports this plan.  Where he goes, the Council follows."--Seneschal Bazloc, to Ambassador Erella Lyse, during the secret Dromas/Bandesh-Thar Accords.In Dromas, the Dromasi Council rules, and in the Council, Chancellor Dracoln rules.  Domineering, authoritarian, and paranoid, Dracoln came to power in the decades after the Dromasi Revolution, gaining a reputation as a tireless defender of the cause.  After years as head of Dromas's army, he was forced to retire from the field due to an injury, and decided to apply himself to politics.  He was quickly granted a seat in the Council, and with the death of the revered Chancellor Kathlin, was elected to the seat with overwhelming support.  One of his first actions was to declare martial law, ending regular elections among the council members, and instead allowing Dracoln to pick who serves in what post.  His next action was to prove that his greatest rival, Isaker, was guilty of 'counter-revolutionary thinking' forcing the powerful Dromasi to flee to Val-Alen, where he and many of his supporters remain to this day.During the next few years, the Chancellor cemented his power, so that when he ended martial law and resumed elections, it was a pliant Council that met and quickly voted Dracoln back into power.  This has generally remained the state of Dromasi politics--either Dracoln has declared martial law or he stands at the head of frightened, toadying Council.  Under Dracoln, the persecution of wizards and Dvergar has been fierce, and adherance to the cause has come to mean adherance to the declarations of Chancellor Dracoln.Presently, Dracoln is allied with the Concordat and (secretly) with Bandesh-Thar.  Interestingly enough, he has started to notifty the Concordat's leader, 'General' Gisen Ball, that he does not consider Ball's slightly less militant stance on arcane magic to quite be in line with Dromasi views.   Ball's replies are growing increasingly annoyed and critical.</blockquote>

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