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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Conaill" data-source="post: 815839" data-attributes="member: 1264">Let's make it 50 at most. Lalaton is only 500 I believe.Mor's End City Guard is only 60 men. Two houses with 40 soldiers could form a significant threat to Lady Kelvin. How about 20 maximum?As far as we know, there is only one navigeable river: the one flowing straight through Mor's End, which is a major trade route. I don't think there should be a new toll booth on the river every couple of miles...I would make him totally isolated. Makes him that much more mysterious. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />The nobles and Guilds do hold significant practical power in the city (probably the Guilds more so that the nobles...) So not only does Lady Kelvin need advisors, she also needs to appease the Council and gain their cooperation. She may or may not have enough personal power to rule as a dictator, but she's smart and politically savvy enough not to do so.In many current-day democratic kingdoms, the government rules in name of the King, but at least on paper the King still has the power  to disband and appoint goverment, refuse to sign any laws, announce Martial Law etc. Lady Kelvin is simply a much earlier, more autocratic version of this.Good work otherwise, GladiusNP.</blockquote>