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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 1130423" data-attributes="member: 3146">If things are as they seem, you've got the beginnings of a sort of divine right world where the lawful heir to the kingdom will govern well and justly but a usurper wickedly and unjustly.You might well expand upon this in other areas. The land itself might wither through droughts, heat waves, etc while the usurper sits upon the throne. Magic items might well remember who their owners were and behave as cursed items for any who attempt to use them without the right to do so. (Turin Turambar's relationship with his sword might be a useful example of this--when it finally spoke, it said that it would be happy to kill him in vengeance for the blood of his master Beleg and the village leader who Turin slew unjustly. Similarly, in the Lord of the Rings, Aragorn could use the palantiri with less risk than others since, as the heir of Isildur, they were his by right. IIRC, the gold of the Rhine maidens in the Ring of the Niebelung had a similar curse). That would sharply differentiate the setting from standard D&D fantasy and would give it a more Arthurian/Tolkeinesque/mythic feel.</blockquote>