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I'm not sure Zathir spends enough time active and in this world to make a good minister of anything.
He has some kind of divine duties, propably?
 
Having a LITERAL god of Education as a minister of education would be a testament of how serious we are in the whole shebang.
 
Artemis1992 said:
I'm not sure Zathir spends enough time active and in this world to make a good minister of anything.
He has some kind of divine duties, propably?
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Wasn't he directly running his temple as a school even after his ascension? I don't know what he does all day, which is why I was sort of assuming it wasn't an option, but he's a very communicative god and this area is directly in his domain. It doesn't seem totally impossible that Zathir could take it if he was interested in the position.

@DragonParadox is it possible for Zathir to do something like this?
 
I don't really think Zathir is a good choice for Minister of Education, ya'll. Mascot, sponsor, consultant, inspirational speaker, etc., but not the one who runs the day to day background stuff of the Ministry.
 
Zathir is unfortunately not an option for Minister, he is invested in education of course, but he is wary of giving mortals too many answers lest they no longer innovate. To become minister would be for his will to be upon all the studies of the land and little would be free of his hand which would be a bridge too far. Again he would love to help but not like this, better to advise then to organize.
 
Ok, the vote does not look like it's going to move anytime soon so vote closed. The first really closed vote in a while.
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TalonofAnathrax said:
A thought: Viserys revealing Hellven to everyone is great fun. It's explicitly forbidden knowledge that starts terrible cults and leads sane men to madness (or at least psychological issues like depression). But Viserys tells it to everyone in charge, and then promises that he's working on fixing it. He's basically relying on his cult of personality to reassure everyone that everything is going to be fine. Of course they'll trust him to succeed in rewriting the cosmos and solving issues that Gods haven't been able to fully resolve!
Now that's some energy right there
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The thing is, over half of these people know Viserys personally. And they know the scale and the context to which he has committed his deeds and how insanely difficult they would have been for practically anyone else.

The faith in him comes from results that Gods would have been lacking in by comparison, since "even the Gods themselves" are incapable of actually fixing mortal fuckery.

Only someone with the perfect storm of traits (ego, dichotomic lack of self deception, willingness to try new things, creative thinking and a will literally harder than adamantine to the point where we deepened the scale of hardness for materials using magic so one of those even harder materials is probably the new point of comparison) would say these things with such confidence and not be considered insane.

It's either believe the guy with credentials backing it up or believe that he has no fucking clue what he's talking about. When the second option is also "only have faith in a horrible suffering for as long as it takes for your individuality to be ground down into demon cocaine, a new pair of boots for a Legion devil or a new Legion devil, or worn away into oblivion altogether" it seems like a bit of a no-brainer. Trust the guy who has either been a friend to you for years / a better ruler than you've ever had your entire life who seems to always have some kind of answer to a problem no matter what it is?

People would start taking us at our word for less rational reasons (like having the ability to back it up) and more because thinking otherwise is vastly more unpleasant and perhaps a bit of a fruitless exercise since the scale of the problem is a touch over most of their heads.

Only archmages and sages can really think up ways to fix the problem for everyone else. Let them have at it.
 
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Your point makes sense, @Crake. But at this level things aren't rational. He's asking for an incredible level of deep-seated trust to keep the existential dread away.
I'm not saying this is a bad thing and I'm not saying that he doesn't have that trust. I'm just commenting on the crazy shit you can pull when you've built your reputation on breaking the wheel and publicly giving speeches with 128+1d8 Diplomacy :D
 
TalonofAnathrax said:
Your point makes sense, @Crake. But at this level things aren't rational. He's asking for an incredible level of deep-seated trust to keep the existential dread away.
I'm not saying this is a bad thing and I'm not saying that he doesn't have that trust. I'm just commenting on the crazy shit you can pull when you've built your reputation on breaking the wheel and publicly giving speeches with 128+1d8 Diplomacy :D
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The other qualifier here is that they don't need to believe he can fix everything, just that he can protect them. That's a much easier thing to believe he can pull off.
 
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[] Anlyse of Myr
++Brilliant Organizer (Rose to the top of the School Inspectorate for the whole of the Eastern Disputed Lands, starting from nothing on the strength of skill alone and has made it one of the most tightly run organizations of its type in the realm)
+Delegating Skill (Unlike most of her position has an eye for people also, knowing who to select and how to motivate them)
-Peculiar Faith (She is one of those R'hllorites convinced that Viserys is Azor Ahai)
-Wary of Hell (Is less inclined than others to allow that dark spirits might be redeemed though Imperial service)
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I kinda wanna introduce her to the devils that R'hllor recruited and loaned to us.
 
Goldfish said:
Ideas for Darkmark;

Maybe rename it to Shadow Infusion, or something different? Darkmark just doesn't roll off the tongue well, IMO. Or maybe it rolls off too well and can be said too quickly, if that makes any sense?

Rather than there being two types of marks, and limiting them by Mythic tier, I would rather go with a single type of mark. Maximum marks could work just like daily Mythic power; (Mythic tier x 2) + 3, so 5 at 1st tier. Or maybe (Mythic tier x 2) + Charisma? Garin has a solid Charisma attribute of 18, but we could push that to 20 easily enough, to get him as many as 7 marks at 1st tier. Marks would be Permanent until Dispelled or dismissed, with Dispelling becoming progressively more difficult as Garin progresses on his Mythic path.

At 1st tier, it would require Touch-based application, but then the next tier it could maybe become Short-ranged, then Medium after that, and so on. Potentially even up to line of sight at 5th tier?

As for basic mark functionality, starting off duplicating the effects of a Dragoneye Rune seems fitting. Along with that, include Status and Telepathic Bond. That's a lot of stuff crammed into the mark, but none of the effects are particularly powerful on their own, or difficult to duplicate using separate spells or items. This is a case of the sum of the parts being greater than the whole, though. It's a great tool for communication, coordination, and monitoring of agents all over the world.

I wouldn't include any offensive functions in the initial mark, though. That could come at 2nd tier or beyond. All of the basic functions are pretty damned nice to keep track of an enemy, but a really neat option would be to allow Garin to target his spells through the mark, regardless of range. This would pair especially well with Wild Arcana if we have him go the Dual Path route. There are a ton of useful spells he could use on people through the mark, like Deep Slumber or Modify Memory. Or for real fun, something like Create Fetch; nothing says "Oh shit!" like a duplicate of Garin appearing behind you to shank you in the kidney just when you think you've escaped him. For this function, maybe have spells which can be sent through the mark be limited by Mythic tier, i.e. 1st level spells at 1st tier, 2nd at 2nd tier, etc.

Being able to drop a surprise Heart Ripper on someone through the mark would be neat and scary as hell.

Just some thoughts.
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These changes for Darkmark are all acceptable. I thought about the Create Fetch idea, and suggested maybe a Mythic Spell variant for it, or even just a new spell altogether with a [Shadow] Typing so that everything the copy replicates is semi real. A Mythic Variant could be fully real, and could maybe even directly copy Garin's gear and its abilities, so someone with a Darkmark could later on find themselves with their throat torn out during an ambush because suddenly a copy of Garin was behind them.

I think having the option to make the Mark subtle and requiring a difficult check to detect, or obvious and able to be spotted at a glance, should still be an option, since it makes surprises possible.

Egoo made a suggestion for allowing him to do Mythic Surge world manipulations and illusions to anyone who has heard about him, though I'd have to find the post to think how that would work mechanically.

For his penultimate tier, an ability called Last Surprise: Garin fakes his death 100% convincingly and then appears from the closest shadow to that person for a full sneak attack with a damage modifier which stacks again with crits.

For the Capstone, being able to take over the body of people marked with his Darkmark (or whatever we end up naming it) with no save. The duration can be permanent or temporary, but it takes a day to regain a single Mythic Tier, up to 10 days to regain his full capabilities, but he retains all his class features, levels and regular abilities not attached to his current body through Permanency or equipment. The body also starts off as basically a shadow silhouette given form resembling the person overtaken, then the person being taken over fully, but if the change is made permanent it turns into whatever Garin's current self-image is. Which means that what Garin ends up looking like over the years could change quite a bit, though eventually it will wind up quite static.

Honestly there's so many ideas for the type of PC that Garin is that I'm not married to any one idea. I would be perfectly happy if we used something like the Darkmark concept, the only thing I really want is not to name his Path "Trickster".

Just start as we mean to go on, @Goldfish, and call it "Darkstalker".
 
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Part MMMDCCXLIX: Affairs of the Throne
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    • Affairs of the Throne ​

    Eighth Day of the Fifth Month 294 AC

    It takes several hours and more consulting with your companions and with officials familiar with both Anlyse and Veda before you finally choose the latter over the former for the Ministry of Education. Sooner the trouble of one who has no use for gods, which will hopefully change after you inform the Curia of the Breaking of the Spheres, than the trouble of someone who thinks you are a god, or the agent of one.

    When you give that very reasoning to Lya she actually giggles. "You know that Marco boy sure has faith in you."

    "That is different," you note, but before you can explain just how that it shakes her head and smiles.

    "Well sure he is, you made up that legend instead of having it be made by another. It is natural to prefer things of your making I guess, but you really should not hold it against poor Anlyse. She is really quite lovely, even if she did compare me to a woman famed for getting stabbed through the heart."

    It is a good thing you are not eating or drinking anything right now or you would have choked. "She said that, in so many words?"

    "Well she couched it as a great honor of course..." Lya breaks off, seeing your expression. "Really it's not a problem. 'Tragic heroine' is a damn sight better than some of the things I was called in the past and some of those I will be called going forward no doubt. Apparently I beguiled you with my non-existent feminine wiles if you listen to some of the rumors that are going around the ladies of the court."

    You deliberately look Lya up and down from the tips of her lustrous hair, so black it almost catches shades of blue in the mage-light, to the drake-skin boots barely peeking below the hem of her star-strewn robes, before looking right into eyes alight with arcane fire in colors the tongue struggles to define. Drolly you ask: "Really now, no wiles at all?"

    "Well now, I guess I could be persuaded to try something..." she trails off suggestively, glancing ever so briefly towards the bedroom.

    "You are going to make me late," you reply, keeping your tone level, or trying to at least.

    "Art thou not a master of time?" she asks in draconic, the form of 'thou' leaving if anything even less to be imagined for dragons, which little sought the company of their own kin of old, had a particular form of the pronoun for a partner in a mated pair, and it was generally only used when a thousand wings colored the sky. Granted, a display flight is not what is most upon your mind right now.

    "I am not so quick, my lady, not so quick at all..."

    ***​

    You are about forty-five minutes late for the meeting and that only because you abused translocation to get there. Of course master of time you may not be, but you are one no one dares call late, assuming no doubt affairs of state rather than those of the heart, but for once you take the dereliction of duty with a light heart. Once more three stand before you who could not be more different one from the other.

    The first is a former merchant of Gulltown who like so many others came to the Deep in the early days looking for a cure for what was otherwise incurable, though unlike most others he stayed and put first his personal fortune and then his skills in service of the state to ensure that others too would benefit from the same 'miracles'. A man of deep if eclectic faith he has learned as much of low magic as is readily available, though he lacks the skill for a full Scholarum education. If anything Hern's record shows him to be a touch too kind to subordinates who err and if there could be said to be any anger in his heart it is towards the Faith of the Seven and the septons whose calls of 'devilry' and 'foul magic' had almost dissuaded him from sailing to the Deep to begin with, which might have been the death of not just him but all those he had aided in the interim.

    Next is Umsur of Mantarys, a Fallen Preceptor Archon who like all his kin is an expert in healing the mind. The spirit had fallen, but not to cruelty or callousness as much as a sort of pragmatism you can well admire, more interested in warding off the extremes of madness and self-destruction than the height of morals or ethics. Still, he has had only limited experience actually running a institution of healing and while he wants the job he is also invested in the study of mind magics which he considers the true way to mend minds that are otherwise broken beyond recall. If nothing else an archon will make a useful foil to naming a devil as your taxman...

    As you ponder the matter the last of the potential candidates shows up for her interview. The face of the woman you meet is familiar, though the coldness in her steel-grey eyes is most unlike her cousin Uthero. Este Argalys is an accountant at heart and no sort of healer. She joined the Office of Health because it was by her measure woefully under-organized, something she was uniquely skilled in redressing. A political moderate as well as a woman with a fair bit of experience in dealing with the alchemical and reagent market you have no doubt she would bring a steady hand to the Ministry.

    Who do you choose for Minister of Health?

    [] Hern Lampmaker
    +Low Magician (One of the most skilled non-caster ritualists in the Imperium; Excellent relationship with the Scholarum)
    +Philanthropist (A genuine desire to help others unburdened by ambition or pride)
    +Eclectic Faith (If there could be said to be a man who holds faith in the Imperial Pantheon it is he)
    -A Touch of Kindness (Has been known to give people under his authority a few too many chance to mend their ways, at least by the measure of the Lawmen, though it has never gone so far as making him complicit)
    -Dislike of the Faith of the Seven (Given his history he dislikes the Faith in Westeros; though not the Seven themselves)

    [] Umsur of Mantarys
    +Preceptor Archon (Socially skilled and likely to be well seen)
    +Mental Health Expert (More likely to excel in the field)
    +Pragmatic (Fallen to True Neutral)
    -Limited organizational experience (Has never managed even a Regional Office alone)
    -Fascination with Psionics (Invests a significant portion of his time in the field)

    [] Este Argalys
    +Skilled Organizer (Administrator of the Regional Office of Health under her cousin)
    +Verdant Vistas experience (knows how to secure arcane reagents and how to deal with the fey)
    +Political Moderate (Considers any sort of extreme politics bad for business and bad for the state )
    -Seeming Nepotism (Related to a Duke and a known friend of the Throne)
    -Cold and Calculating (Might make for bad PR for the head of the Ministry of Health)

    OOC: Well it has been a while since Lya and Viserys had the chance to flirt, so I thought by not touch base in that regard a little. I hope it did not feel jarring.
     
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    • Crake said:
    These changes for Darkmark are all acceptable. I thought about the Create Fetch idea, and suggested maybe a Mythic Spell variant for it, or even just a new spell altogether with a [Shadow] Typing so that everything the copy replicates is semi real. A Mythic Variant could be fully real, and could maybe even directly copy Garin's gear and its abilities, so someone with a Darkmark could later on find themselves with their throat torn out during an ambush because suddenly a copy of Garin was behind them.

    I think having the option to make the Mark subtle and requiring a difficult check to detect, or obvious and able to be spotted at a glance, should still be an option, since it makes surprises possible.

    Egoo made a suggestion for allowing him to do Mythic Surge world manipulations and illusions to anyone who has heard about him, though I'd have to find the post to think how that would work mechanically.

    For his penultimate tier, an ability called Last Surprise: Garin fakes his death 100% convincingly and then appears from the closest shadow to that person for a full sneak attack with a damage modifier which stacks again with crits.

    For the Capstone, being able to take over the body of people marked with his Darkmark (or whatever we end up naming it) with no save. The duration can be permanent or temporary, but it takes a day to regain a single Mythic Tier, up to 10 days to regain his full capabilities, but he retains all his class features, levels and regular abilities not attached to his current body through Permanency or equipment. The body also starts off as basically a shadow silhouette given form resembling the person overtaken, then the person being taken over fully, but if the change is made permanent it turns into whatever Garin's current self-image is. Which means that what Garin ends up looking like over the years could change quite a bit, though eventually it will wind up quite static.

    Honestly there's so many ideas for the type of PC that Garin is that I'm not married to any one idea. I would be perfectly happy if we used something like the Darkmark concept, the only thing I really want is not to name his Path "Trickster".

    Just start as we mean to go on, @Goldfish, and call it "Darkstalker".
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    Darkmark (Su): As a Standard Action, you can place a Darkmark on a touched target. The range that marks can be placed increases at higher Mythic Tiers (25 feet at 2nd tier, 100 feet at 3rd tier, 400 feet at 4th tier, plus 100 additional feet for tier after 4th). You can have a number of Darkmarks active equal to your Charisma bonus plus twice your Mythic Tier. Darkmarks are Permanent magical effects which persist until Dispelled or dismissed, though if you add a Darkmark to a target when you are already at your maximum number of marks, the oldest active mark is automatically dismissed. Darkmarks resist Dispelling as if they were Shadow spells with a caster level equal to your character level plus twice your Mythic Tier. For unwilling targets, the DC to resist being marked is equal to 10 + 1/2 your character level + your Mythic Tier + your Charisma bonus.

    The Darkmark appears on your target's body where you touched them to apply it, but at 2nd Mythic tier and higher you can place it anywhere on them you wish. Unless the target or a nearby ally sees the Darkmark upon their flesh before it fades to Invisibility one round after being applied, only inspection with See Invisibility or a similar effect will reveal its presence, nor do those who successfully resist the mark realize they have done so. The Darkmark serves as an anchor which duplicates the effects of the Dragoneye Rune, Status, and Telepathic Bond spells. You can suppress or restore any of these functions as a Free Action for individual Darkmarks or for as many of them as you desire.

    The greatest power of your Darkmark is not the information it can relay to you about your targets, however, but the conduit it forges for your magic. Any spell you personally cast can be made to originate from a selected Darkmark, regardless of range between you and the mark's recipient so long as they are on the same Plane. At 3rd Mythic Tier, the conduit is able to extend even beyond Planar boundaries. Spells cast from items (wands, talismans, scrolls, etc.) cannot be transmitted through the mark, but those which are powered using your spell slots (Runestaves, Pages of Spell Knowledge, etc) remain eligible. Touch spells used in this manner automatically target the bearer of the Darkmark, but spells which have an area of effect, conjure or create matter or energy or Summon other beings, treat the mark as the spell's point of origin.

    Spells cast through the Darkmark are limited by your Mythic Tier. At 1st tier, you can only cast 1st level spells through the mark, at 2nd tier this increases to 2nd level spells, and so on.
    [] Garin's First Mythic Rank
    -[] Mythic Path: Darkstalker (based off the Trickster Path)
    -[] Mythic Feat: Dual Path (Archmage - Wild Arcana)
    -[] Trickster Attack:
    --[] Surprise Strike (Ex): As a Swift Action, you can expend one use of mythic power to make a melee attack or ranged attack against a target within 30 feet, in addition to any other attacks you make this round. When you make a surprise strike, the target is considered flat-footed regardless of any class features or abilities it might have, and you add your tier to the attack roll. Damage from this attack bypasses damage reduction.
    -[] Path Ability:     Darkmark
     
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    So long as the rest of Garin's Mythic Path is less about "Meshunikl Bonuseez!!" and more about just fluffy stuff that would help him as a Lord-Inquisitor (and the rest of Inquisition through his management), I have no problem whatsoever.

    Like this ol' one of mine as the cap. This one, @Crake
    egoo said:
    Hm.
    I'm thinking something slightly morbid for Garin's cap.

    Call it "The Shadow of the Empire" or something.
    Long as there a person that is aware of him existing (not necessarily in-detail, "The Inquisitors had a leader and he was a scary motherfucker"), he can use some basic effects on that person, across the Planes if focusing and pouring down Mythic Power.
    Like, cantrip-basic. Mindblank blocks perfectly well, too.

    Morbid part being, that any person aware of him becomes a candidate to be used as a reincarnation-vessel, in the event Garin dies.
    Garin can choose at his convenience from his awareness of all that know of him, target gets a save-or-die roll.

    ...And/or he gets to telefrag people, in the event he wants to make a horror movie-esque entrance of "...The shadows gather around [name], lengthening, ripping into them- only for the visible remains of [name]'s bodyxs outline to turn void-black, and something new step through the darkness"

    The only reliable method to perma-kill would be a Deity rewriting reality with it's juice, or Void using a direct effect like the Frost-Dragon's breath.
    ...But that's not saying much, considering the immunities of a MR10 anyway.

    "You can never know if the Shadow you see in the corner of your vision is just a shadow, or the Empire's scariest enforcer. And even when facing those being the mark of book and a sword, not one across the Planes can be sure it is not The Shadow himself in disguise. Anyone, anywhere, could be him".
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    Affairs of the Throne ​

    Eighth Day of the Fifth Month 294 AC

    It takes several hours and more consulting with your companions and with officials familiar with both Anlyse and Veda before you finally choose the latter for the Ministry of Education. Sooner the trouble of one who has no use for gods, which will hopefully change after you inform the Curia of the Breaking of the Spheres, than the trouble of someone who thinks you are a god, or the agent of one.

    When you give that very reasoning to Lya, she actually giggles. "You know that Marco boy sure has faith in you."

    "That is different," you note, but before you can explain just how that is, she shakes her had and smiles.

    "Well sure it is. You made up that legend instead of having it be made by another. It is natural to prefer things of your own making, I guess, but you really should not hold it against poor Anlyse. She is really quite lovely, even if she did compare me to a woman famed for getting stabbed through the heart."

    It is a good thing you are not eating or drinking anything right now or you would have choked. "She said that, in so many words?"

    "Well, she couched it as a great honor, of course..." Lya breaks off, seeing your expression. "Really, it's not a problem. 'Tragic heroine' is a damn sight better than some of the things I was called in the past and some of those I will no doubt be called going forward. Apparently, I beguiled you with my non-existent feminine wiles if you listen to some of the rumors that are going around the ladies of the court."

    You deliberately look Lya up and down from the tips of her lustrous hair, so black it almost catches shades of blue in the mage-light, to the drake-skin boots barely peeking below the hem of her star-strewn robes, before looking right into eyes alight with arcane fire in colors the tongue struggles to define. Drolly, you ask, "Really now, no feminine wiles at all?"

    "Well now, I guess I could be persuaded to try something..." she trails off suggestively, glancing ever so briefly towards the bedroom.

    "You are going to make me late," you reply, keeping your tone level, or trying to at least.

    "Art thou not a master of time?" she asks in draconic, the form of 'thou' leaving if anything even less to be imagined, for dragons which little sought the company of their own kin of old had a particular form of the pronoun for a partner in a mated pair, and it was generally only used when a thousand wings colored the sky. Granted, a display flight is not what is most upon your mind right now.

    "I am not so quick, my lady, not so quick at all..."

    ***​

    You are about forty-five minutes late for the meeting and that only because you abused translocation to get there. Of course, master of time you may not be, but you are one no one dares call late, assuming no doubt affairs of state rather than those of the heart, but for once you take the dereliction of duty with a light heart. Once more three stand before you who could not be more different one from the other.

    The first is a former merchant of Gulltown who, like so many others, came to the Deep in the early days looking for a cure for what was otherwise incurable. Unlike most others, however, he stayed and put first his personal fortune and then his skills in service of the state to ensure that others too would benefit from the same 'miracles'. A man of deep if eclectic faith, he has learned as much of low magic as is readily available, though he lacks the skill for a full Scholarum education. If anything, Hern's record shows him to be a touch too kind to subordinates who err, and if there could be said to be any anger in his heart it is towards the Faith of the Seven and the Septons whose calls of 'devilry' and 'foul magic' had almost dissuaded him from sailing to the Deep to begin with, which might have been the death of not just him but all those he had aided in the interim.

    Next is Umsur of Mantarys, a Fallen Preceptor Archon who like all his kin is an expert in healing the mind. The spirit had fallen, but not to cruelty or callousness as much as a sort of pragmatism you can well admire, more interested in warding off extremes of madness and self destruction than the height of morals or ethics. Still, he has had only limited experience actually running a institution of healing and while he wants the job he is also invested in the study of mind magics which he considers the true way to mend minds that are otherwise broken beyond recovery. If nothing else, an archon will make a useful foil to naming a devil as your taxman...

    As you ponder the matter, the last of the potential candidates shows for her interview. The face of the woman you meet is familiar, though the coldness in her steel-grey eyes is most unlike her cousin Uthero. Este Argalys is an Accountant at heart and no sort of healer. She joined the Office of Health because it was by her measure woefully under-organized, something she was uniquely skilled in redressing. A political moderate as well as a woman with a fair bit of experience in dealing with the alchemical and reagent market, you have no doubt she would bring a steady hand to the Ministry.

    Who do you choose for Minister of Health?

    [] Hern Lampmaker
    +Low Magician (One of the most skilled non-caster ritualists in the Imperium; Excellent relationship with the Scholarum)
    +Philanthropist (A genuine desire to help others unburdened by ambition or pride)
    +Eclectic Faith (If there could be said to be a man who holds faith in the Imperial Pantheon, it is he)
    -A Touch of Kindness (Has been known to give people under his authority a few too many chance to mend their ways, at least by the measure of the Lawmen, though it has never gone so far as making him complicit)
    -Dislike of the Faith of the Seven (Given his history, he dislikes the Faith in Westeros though not the Seven themselves)

    [] Umsur of Mantarys
    +Preceptor Archon (Socially skilled and likely to be well seen)
    +Mental Health Expert (More likely to excel in the field)
    +Pragmatic (Fallen to True Neutral)
    -Limited organizational experience (Has never managed even a Regional Office alone)
    -Fascination with Psionics (Invests a significant portion of his time in the field)

    [] Este Argalys
    +Skilled Organizer (Administrator of the Regional Office of Health under her cousin)
    +Verdant Vistas experience (Knows how to secure arcane reagents and how to deal with the fey)
    +Political Moderate (Considers any sort of extreme politics bad for business and bad for the state)
    -Seeming Nepotism (Related to a Duke and a known friend of the Throne)
    -Cold and Calculating (Might make for bad PR for the head of the Ministry of Health)

    OOC: Well it has been a while since Lya and Viserys had the chance to flirt, so I thought by not touch base in that regard a little. I hope it did not feel jarring.
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    Made some additional edits to the chapter, DP.

    Good on Viserys and Lya for letting loose their inner teenaged lovebirds for an afternoon quicky. 😎
     
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