I figured the bit about the human heads of state was a brief aside, and then returned to "the total number of heads of state in the Old World", because I forgot to include Marienburg in my tally.
She can and she does wield a lot of very real power, but head of state is a specific role, one who is suppsoed to 'embody' a state, and the Fay Enchantress isn't really that, despite her power. Note that similarly, Marienburg's head of state is technically the Stadtholder, regardless of their lack of power. You can't really have two heads of state, outside of very specific forms of government, like diarchies (and even then you tend to have senior and junior rulers).
Eh I'd put him more as the prime minister of Canada, though that is mostly because I'm Canadian. Canada has the prime minister and the Governor General, in an almost direct comparison to how marienburg is set up
The official Head of State of Canada is King Charles III.
Officially yeah, but practically our head of state is both our prime minister and the governor general, generally pretty interchangeably. This is because the official head of state is literally across an ocean, as well as busy being the head of state of the UK. Officially, King Charles is our head of state, but in reality it's lip service
I feel like you're conflating "Head of State" with "Head of Government".
Was that confirmed?
Yes.
It's under the authority of the Cult of Verena, so we can't Great Deed our way into it, entirely beside our current tensions with that Cult, which is a shame. We'll have to negotiate with it the normal way, most likely.
That's straight up from the text on what a Great Deed can buy.
@Boney : Does Mindholes work on specific identities? Like say if Mathilde dresses up all in red wearing a red mask and mugs someone stealing their money and says "You will always remember the day you were robbed by the Red Hood!". Then mindholes them they will forget the Red Hood and the robbery, but will the also forget the legendary gray wizard that have heard stories about and don't think that they have met?
No it very much can that is why we haven't ever used it on captive ratman. Because then he would forget his agreement.
I'd assume that would count as a way of controlling or limiting the effect, so no go.
Mindhole seems like something useful to enchant onto an object then. Like say a mask.
It turns out that it's quite hard to find items enchanted with Mindhole once you've put them down.
Everytime an Ulgu wizard comes up with the idea, they are delighted by their own cleverness. They get a designated spot for the attempt and an evil artifact (sometimes suprisingly potent for a first attempt). Some time later, another parcel is scored off, and the two perpetuals responsible settle the betting pool. The most prolific has done it twenty-three times, and these days it takes him barely a week from when someone nudges into the idea (or he comes up with it himself) until he's done. He always wears steal toed boots, and has switched rooms three times.
