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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nephtys" data-source="post: 2723434" data-attributes="member: 31780">Hi Funeris, great story. I really enjoy the dark and gritty mood of the game, it lends a lot of depth and credibility to the story. There is one thing I don't quite understand though. Ara'Kull's followers seem a bit too destructive, and Toc himself is apparently a very negligent ruler. It doesn't seem sensible for him to allow his kingdom to be divided into racial fiefdoms, constantly fighting amongst each-others while his inquisitors are slaughtering those who should be his most loyal followers (human noncombatants). It's just wasteful, and poor management. It would be an understandable compromise with older (institutional and racial) traditions during the first unstabile years of his reign, before he would have been able to fully take control. But after 600 years and with a God on his side its amazing that he would still rely on short-term solutions that inevitably weakens his rule in the long term by destroying the people's loyalty to him, as well as turning the country into an improductive wastelend incapable of paying much in taxes and dues.Even if his goal was to gather as many souls as possible for some Evil Ritual of Ultimate Power it would be a lot more efficient to manage the operation, as well as the management of the kingdom as a whole, in a more professional and consistent manner that ensured stability, prosperity and a healthy long-term growth of the population. After all, the higher the population is the more souls will eventually be harvested. And if you have had 600 years to prepare surely you can afford to be patient enough to sow before you reap.Regardless, I've enjoyed the story a lot and am looking forward to another update. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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