Essentially, wouldn't it be roughly the same thing if I happened to be a royal bastard who employed the help of a mercenary band, or rival nation? I'd be pressing my claim through force, and unless you would be taking the roles of NPCs from such rival countries, etc, it would be pretty much the same as if I stuck to my same idea. Then again, it's far from me to fuck with the universe that you created, and since I have no idea what kind of nations surround Matal, I can't really copy/paste my character concept into one of those easily. I suppose I agree with you when it comes to that, which kind of puts me back to square one when it comes to actually creating a character for this RP, which should be rectified when you put up the OOC.

So, to sum things up, I definitely won't go with that foreign invader idea, even if it would have been interesting to burn and destroy large parts of Matal for the funsies. Even though I guess I could do that regardless as a royal bastard in charge of a band of mercenaries/bandits, but I doubt that would earn me a lot of brownie points when it comes to actually getting the throne. In fact, that might have actually given me an idea. Maybe.