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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9519451" data-attributes="member: 2209">My main area in my mashup setting is the Holy Lothian Empire from Ptolus with the religious civil succession war fully dynamically on. There are several factions struggling for power in different ways so it is theoretically possible for players to pick sides and make impacts.The emperor died heirless and they had to search far for the closest legitimate claim under the rules of succession. The Church Emperor refused to confirm the new empress, declaring her an apostate for being a divine champion of a pagan non-Lothian God. The Steward declared the succession undecided and grabbed power in the capital. The Uncrowned Empress had a small power base on islands southwest of the core of the empire and managed to flee back their and escape the Church Emperor and rally her cause. The Elven province of Kyonin declared for the Uncrowned Empress while other provinces declared their independence. The Church Emperor declared a crusade on both western bishops who denied his authority and breakaway states with strong support from the East and the Steward. Other royalty with lesser ties pushed their claims for the Throne. Most prominent is the Prince of Ustalav, in good standing with the Lothianite church and a strong army of nights who moved to combat the breakaway now Bandit Kingdoms and Kyonin. The Church Emperor is now pushing forward plans to unify the empire's imperial and ecclesiastical roles into one, a state of affairs that has not been in play since the Second Emperor split the two roles. This may push the Prince into conflict with the Church Emperor.But mostly it is just background in most of my campaigns to ground some plot elements, to riff off of, and provide reasons government is not sending in powers to deal with stuff the PCs are dealing with in the game, usually module and adventure path plots.In my Iron Gods campaign Numeria is outside of the Empire but there is a Lothian crusader state to the North around the worldwound and the Lothian provinces of Usalav and the empire to the south border Numeria and the party spent a time in fantasy Amish town of Lothian frontiersmen who revere Lothian St. Erastil.In my Carrion Crown campaign the Ustalav prince's military campaign and spending time in the capital working political angles was a big plot point of why the only local powers around were a called out of retirement 70 year old cleric and his two altar boys and it was really up to the PCs to handle the growing outbreak of a Haunted Prison.In my Reign of Winter campaign it started in the Lothian breakawy province of Taldor then moved to Irrisen and other lands out of the empire.In my Freeport trilogy campaign the Lothian civil war melded seamlessly with the module's Northern Empire civil war and the Sea Lord breaking old pacts and the privateer fleets being open to the highest bidders.Edit: Some of my text got cut off by my phone so I re-added it here.</blockquote>

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