Recent content by Maugan Ra

[x] You will owe more for the favours you're calling in than you anticipated, in a way you will dislike

As the Deliberative convened to settle its decision for the position of Home Minister, what was originally thought to be a fairly straightforward affair was suddenly complicated by the intervention of House V'Neef. Speaking eloquently on the need for a competent, level-headed and experienced...

Like many cultures in the Second Age, the Realm claims descent from the Shogunate of old - even its name, "Realm", is a modern translation of the term most often used in those elevated, half-forgotten times, and the Empress was herself once an officer in the mighty armies of the last Shogun...

While the Realm remained without a doubt Creation's premier superpower, its position among the nations was not uncontested. There were rival states of course, claimants either crushed or incorporated into the growing empire by turns, but far more persistent and insidious was the threat of the...

By law of the Realm, all land belonged to the Empress. By long-standing tradition, the vast majority of it was leased out to the various Houses, who repaid her largesse by providing clear-sighted stewardship of the land and the people therein. How effective, motivated or altruistic such...

While the Empress ruled the Realm, only three of the Great Houses were permitted to maintain and deploy legions of their own. In her absence, those who once answered only to the Throne were carefully partitioned among all the Houses of the Dynasty; no ambitious general would be mounting a coup...

I am, in fact, looking at the last few posts you made before you were banned from the Bakery. Right now, on my screen. They're all about how it is important to avoid any idea rooted in conservative thought, how an appreciation for art is a threat to liberal democracy, and how empathy is bad.

CD you got banned off the Bakery for advocating the relentless destruction of anything that could lead someone to adopt “conservative thought”, including such highlights as art, love, the family, living in the countryside, neighbourhoods, aesthetics and the commitment to democracy as an ideal...

I'm more curious about how the hell Chejop Kejak and twenty other Sidereals happened to be in Whitewall at the same time. That's the kind of killteam you muster for Deathlords.

While it was always the policy of the Deliberative to consider matters domestic far superior to matters foreign, this is not to say that the governing body of the Realm was unconcerned with the world beyond its own borders. The Wise and Knowledgeable Advisors of Foreign Tributaries - which was...

In the Seven Hundred and Sixty Eighth year of the Glorious Scarlet Realm, Ragara Julinei was once again elected to the position of Master of the Deliberative by her peers. Under her practiced and steady hand, the business of governance carried on much as it had for the preceding six centuries...

[X] [Look] A deep claw mark over your right jugular [X] [Weapon] An axe While the axe is perhaps less elegant than the other options, I kind of like that in itself. Honey isn't a refined courtly partner that serves her lady with polite words and graceful steps. She's a weapon.

A Crown of Scarlet - Turn One My thanks, esteemed senators of the Deliberative, for your time. In these trying days it is important that we maintain a full understanding of the situation that faces our Glorious Realm, and so I and my colleagues have prepared the following briefing. To begin...

[X] The Officer (Fire Aspect) [X] True Love Also going to throw in an additional vote for... [X] The Diplomat (Earth Aspect)

Ok so you've entirely misread that scene, then, good to know. It isn't the Emperor pretending to be Loken. It is, in fact, Loken - Horus' gene-son, once one of his most trusted subordinates, a man who was there at the beginning of the Heresy and has returned in time to witness its end. Loken...