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Goldeagle: >​.>​
Goldeagle: Ethan
Goldeagle: if you ask me
Goldeagle: if Ethica was a centralized Empire
Goldeagle: they would focus most military resources in the nkrthern border
Goldeagle: so the south would keep it going with resources and fresh heads
Goldeagle: while politicans attempt to set up puppet tribe kings in the north tribes because fuck colonizing a waste land. that or Hadrians wall.
Goldeagle: the legions didnt reside in Rome but the trouble border, and the taxes followed them so to speak
ethanjory: I thought it was a fairly decentralized feudalistic empire. Therefore, the Roman Empire isn't wholly a good comparison.
Goldeagle: I know.
ethanjory: Of course, I'm happy to make changes to fit better into the narrative.
Goldeagle: Im critiqueing the mind set of the individual lords
Goldeagle: because even the HRE supported the marque
Goldeagle: Just know that those who wish further centralization support the nrth by this mindset
Goldeagle: and decentralization supports the south
Goldeagle: because they get to keep their crap and decadence because no war tariff
ethanjory: Funny that the true loyalist states may end up being the North.
Goldeagle: Right?
Goldeagle: Greedy lords make terrible allies
Goldeagle: instead of uniting forces to make a better resistance, they are content woth putting their tiny divided forces by their own grain and coin, hoping nobody will notice
Goldeagle: invaders notice
Goldeagle: stay strong North!

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