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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kraydak" data-source="post: 3851469" data-attributes="member: 12306"><p>And note, the King probably values the PCs over financiers.  You can get more money.  You can't buy the service of HLCs easily.  HLCs can flaunt the rules *because they are important enough to*.  HLCs *should, in a reasonable world* be *showered* with gifts.  People faced with somewhat morally ambiguous extremely powerful people will try to influence them as best they can.  Without the strength to police them, this means bribery.  Mayors and Dukes and Kings should be paying HLCs through the nose.  The mere fact that they *aren't* means they are treating the HLCs like dirt, like people so socially beneath them that they aren't deserving of common respect.  And, eventually, people who treat their loosely allied military like that pay the price.</p></blockquote><p></p>