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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6014214" data-attributes="member: 4937">This tells us the nations moral priorities, but unfortunately doesn't give us much insight in the courts, for lack of a better word, 'personality'.  I can easily see LN courts where the monarch is required to publicly live as an ascetic: forgoing ostentatious displays of wealth, sitting on an old wooden stool (or a throne with a bed of nails), shaving his head, wearing only simple rough garments, eating plain food, etc.  I can just as easily see an LN court going the other way, with no tradition or royal object ever being thrown out, most of the nation's spare wealth being devoted to increasing the glory of the monarchy, lavish everything, ostentaious displays of wealth or benefice being the norm, and a complex panoply of servants.  Or it could be anywhere in between - consider for example the complexities of the modern Papal Court where the 'king' is required to be both ascetic and ostentatious depending on the circumstance.I tend to like to do oddities, systems without real world parallel, extremes or near-extremes in the politics of my various nations to give each nation readily recognizable/memorable tropes.  This is particularly true of the nations I tend to actually use in play (as opposed to undeveloped areas on a theoretical world map).  That probably tells us a bit more, especially if you want to do a pastiche of say 16th century Portuguese court life.</blockquote>

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