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Message: <blockquote data-quote="monkeynova" data-source="post: 2552476" data-attributes="member: 18939">Try thisYou could actually chalk it up to "social advancement gone wrong" as the ultimate reason for the major character's change-of-heart: the character or character's family has decided to initially attain a higher-level of social status by conquering uncharted lands for themselves rather than for the crown; when the crown comes a-knockin', ideally the character/character's family will provide enough resistance that the crown will be forced to recognize the legitimacy of the character/character's family as rules of their conquered areas. Except that the major character spends so much time among the local tribes, preparing defences and training them to fight the eventual arrival of the crown, that the character decides that either (a) he doesn't want them to be ruled by the crown or the character's family (if the character's family is behind the character's military actions) or (b) he actually does want to rule them as a benevolent dictator/king and won't let the crown violate is newfound sense of sovereignty (if the character is behind the charater's motivations).Alternatively, you could just follow the upthread suggestion, and say "He's rebelling in the name of love" (or, in an homage to House of Flying Daggers, you could make the major character think he's doing it all for love...except the object of his affections or one of her lovers has designs to take the character out, for some reason; maybe the major character killed a sibling, before he had a change of heart).monkeynova</blockquote>

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