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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 7196181" data-attributes="member: 16814"><p>You admitted you were completely unfamiliar with SKT, so the fact that your conjecture about the hill giant guards being analogous to the reduction of Lear's vassals being absolutely incorrect for SKT isn't surprising. Sarissa rules, and has can command the guards of the entire household. Her trusted advisor (the one that isn't a dragon) is the commander of the house guard, and he is fiercely loyal to Sarissa. The sisters have to play their power games with smallfolk visitors to the Maelstrom (which no one really trusts smallfolk, so it's easy to manipulate the guards against the PCs) and with visiting nobles of other giant clans. They have no special authority over the house guards, and have nothing to do at all with the placement of the hill giants. So, again, your attempt to draw parallels is, at best a D+, and that's just for effort.</p><p></p><p>And, no, there doesn't need to be a plot point by plot point comparison. Rather, that exercise was to show that there are zero plot point comparisons at all -- the plots are completely different. Again, the only comparison is that there is a king, and he has three daughters, and the eldest two are manipulative (to varying degrees of competence), and the king's favorite is the youngest. But that last is in question as well, as Lear clearly favors his eldest daughters up until the point they betray him enough times, and only comes to love his youngest after reuniting with her whereas Hekaton starts with Sarissa as his favorite and not trusting his eldest daughters.</p><p></p><p>It's a dog's breakfast trying to actually make a case that SKT is anything like Lear. Sure, they may have been initially inspired by it, but the end result is so different that you cannot compare. And, if the point of the hill giant guards is to, weirdly and in contrast with all of the other power Sarissa wields, evoke the reducing of Lear's retinue, a single sentence would have sufficed. But, then again, neither of Lear's final retinue could be called 'extremely stupid,' so, there's that problem still.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 7196181, member: 16814"] You admitted you were completely unfamiliar with SKT, so the fact that your conjecture about the hill giant guards being analogous to the reduction of Lear's vassals being absolutely incorrect for SKT isn't surprising. Sarissa rules, and has can command the guards of the entire household. Her trusted advisor (the one that isn't a dragon) is the commander of the house guard, and he is fiercely loyal to Sarissa. The sisters have to play their power games with smallfolk visitors to the Maelstrom (which no one really trusts smallfolk, so it's easy to manipulate the guards against the PCs) and with visiting nobles of other giant clans. They have no special authority over the house guards, and have nothing to do at all with the placement of the hill giants. So, again, your attempt to draw parallels is, at best a D+, and that's just for effort. And, no, there doesn't need to be a plot point by plot point comparison. Rather, that exercise was to show that there are zero plot point comparisons at all -- the plots are completely different. Again, the only comparison is that there is a king, and he has three daughters, and the eldest two are manipulative (to varying degrees of competence), and the king's favorite is the youngest. But that last is in question as well, as Lear clearly favors his eldest daughters up until the point they betray him enough times, and only comes to love his youngest after reuniting with her whereas Hekaton starts with Sarissa as his favorite and not trusting his eldest daughters. It's a dog's breakfast trying to actually make a case that SKT is anything like Lear. Sure, they may have been initially inspired by it, but the end result is so different that you cannot compare. And, if the point of the hill giant guards is to, weirdly and in contrast with all of the other power Sarissa wields, evoke the reducing of Lear's retinue, a single sentence would have sufficed. But, then again, neither of Lear's final retinue could be called 'extremely stupid,' so, there's that problem still. [/QUOTE]
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