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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 3896903" data-attributes="member: 9254">There's also the question of what "Lord" means in the giving setting.  In most societies, the titles were really military in nature, at least for the first half dozen generations or so.  A "Count" was a commander assigned by the king to administer a "county."  Not a whole lot of difference between a Count and colonel.  Afterwards, when the local lords started to style themselves as the hereditary nobility, officers in the military were somewhere between the nobility and the commoners, in part because officers were essentially agents empowered with the authority of a given noble.  The captain of a Duke could often ignore the orders of a baron, just as today a captain on a mission from a general can often ignore the orders of a major.  More importantly, Dukes couldn't be everywhere so the instructions to their vassal lords were carried by officers and were expected to be obeyed.  The one thing any "lord" should do is be painfully aware of the chain of authority.  Failure to respect the rightful path of authority is one of the few unforgivable sins to the nobility as it leads down the path of rebellion.   If the PC lord has not only interfered with, but contradicted, the explicit orders of the local authority then he may be facing censure by the nobility.  Personally, I'd find it a fitting scenario for the local lord to return with the Duke or King and a group of undead slayers, led by higher ranked NPC clerics of the PCs faiths.  Then the comeuppance can be delivered with panache.  Nothing so gauche as stripping titles or rank but instead the next mission the PCs go on they will be in a subservient position on a diplomatic mission to a country that doesn't recognize nobility, where their ability to deal with a nation of commoners is the challenge.</blockquote>

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