Fabricant451

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I can't believe Sara's dead

(High Casual) An Age Old Feud

Okay, then there goes a chunk of your population. Which of course includes your workforce because, as said, every man works the mines. So much for productivity. So much for economy. To say nothing of the effects it would have with survivors or elsewhere. Namely that it would galvanize them because now Jack can't hide behind "But I pay you money" or the town criers on the payroll. At some point someone would probably just pull a Jaime Lannister and kill him just because everyone would be better off without a ruler then someone who would commit genocide just because he's afraid they might have a point and a bone to pick.

Ruling through fear is not a viable method for any long term control. It only takes someone to nut up and show that they aren't afraid. And Jack already has that someone.

Soldiers are soldiers and many of the men serving even today are loyal to the country rather than the leader, regardless of whether or not the leader fought amongst them. If Jack dies what happens to the military? Is Jack the head of the military or is there a general that handles that stuff? Why would an army want to fight for a king that has proven that he doesn't ACTUALLY care about their lives or the lives of their families? Because he gave a couple speeches?

Why don't lords have their own guards? Surely the various noble houses in this world have their own bannermen and the like? Swearing fealty doesn't mean Jack just owns everything about them.

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Also I guess you and @Penny aren't the same person after all, don't I feel silly.

@Dynamo Frokane

Of course not.

Penny seems way cooler.

(High Casual) An Age Old Feud

Revolutions don't start by someone going "Let's fucking kill the king". It would start as an underground thing and gain traction from there. Can Jack honestly say that his supposed loyalists are fully, one hundred percent loyal? He doesn't have secret police everywhere like some Orwellian nightmare. Code words. Secret meetings. Any number of possible methods to start and build a movement. Not even actual literal dictators controlled 100 percent of the population.

He doesn't even have the support or loyalty of his wife and yet the people are going to just take it all on the chin?

(High Casual) An Age Old Feud

It's plausible. And if the outcome seems feasible and positive, why wouldn't they? Angry civilians outnumber the nobility and what assurance is there that every member of the military isn't sympathetic to the cause, should there be one. What are they going to do about it? Are you really wanting to find out what a people fueled by anger and a desire for a better standard of living (namely one where they don't have to be afraid of the person who supposedly calls the shots) can do when they decide that dying for something is better than living for nothing?

(High Casual) An Age Old Feud

Your logic is flawed because you think everyone is content with the way things are, that they are fine with being abused, basically enslaved, and take around the back and killed for having a negative opinion. It is absolutely insane to think that an entire population of people would take it all in stride and go "Well sure it's bad but at least we get paid when our men die." Don't underestimate the voice and the will of the common citizen.

(High Casual) An Age Old Feud

What makes it impossible? There's literal precedence for the Third Estate rising up and overthrowing monarchy.

(High Casual) An Age Old Feud

Surely the opposite would be true then. If they were mindless then they could be controlled. But people have morals, free will, thoughts, hearts, minds, and are thus not easily controlled at all. They aren't sheep.

(High Casual) An Age Old Feud

People aren't mindless.

(High Casual) An Age Old Feud

You vastly underestimate people if you think they'll be controlled as easily as this. Straight up.