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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Funeris" data-source="post: 2723903" data-attributes="member: 22792">Thanks and welcome Nephtys!Hmmm...I've been pondering how to respond to this...without giving away too much (the Yeti is always listening).  But I think I can explain some of it...with the promise that all will eventually be revealed.You're right that it seems wasteful and just poor management.  But its important to realize that the King, Toq Arma Dunn, is mad.  And not in an angry way so much as a losing-his-mind-crazy-and-very-possibly-dissassociative-kind-of-way.  Plus, for a "medieval" world, he has quite a bit of land to rule...roughly 9 million square miles of territory.  So, for his purposes...it is easier to divide the land into territories (most of which are human dominated) and three of which are governed by Trolls, Goblins and Orcs respectively.The individual territories owe allegiance, fealty, taxes and whatnot to the King.  But he lets them govern their own lands as long as his laws are followed and enforced.  He does meet with the individual Barons once, sometimes twice, a year.  But for the most part he lets them be and as a result they squabble over the constantly shifting boundaries of their territories.  This also keeps the individual barons from banding together against the King.  Well, that and a lot of Fear.  Because they all feel the Inquisitor's presence within their lands...constantly monitoring.Now...why slaughter about 1200 (noncombatant) subjects?  The Town of Green Hills is/was a small village.  It wasn't located on any major roads...they were lucky to see two handfuls of travelers in a year.  The closest neighboring city/town was Nordus Post.  It is approximately 75 miles to the north and isn't a city so much as a barracks.  Nordus Post is positioned on the main road and houses (or at least did house) the Inquisitors.  Nearly no one, barring the PCs or any other children that had grown up and moved away, will miss the village.  Kinda sad, really.There is a use for nearly 1200 corpses, believe me.  And I'm not saying for certain that everyone died.  I haven't really bothered to decide that aspect yet...and if they realized their wells within the keep were poisoned, they could've resorted to drinking from the nearby streams and lake or emptying the tavern...assuming the Inquisitors left (which I'm not going to say).  The King does have uses for them...alive or dead...as you will eventually see.I like to sit down in between sessions and shift perspectives to each of the barons and King in turn.  I decide what they've got going, what they're plotting, how they're going about it and whether or not it is something the PCs will notice during the next session.  If not, then...well...they might catch a glimpse of it eventually.  I do a lot of long term planning...and hopefully, not all of it will go to waste.So, when you notice something that just seems crazy....chalk it up to madness.  And later on, maybe you'll see the method forming within the madness.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Thanks again for reading.  I appreciated the comments and hopefully the dodgy clarification was of some use.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  And I began working on an update last night...I'll probably work on it tonight too and hopefully have it posted later today.~Fune</blockquote>

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