Mediocre for both, which means that Mysticism score is actually higher than typical for kings.
Well, he knew how to use industrial quantities of hemp to quell the drought-season-strong-wine induced riot...I guess he was good at Mysticism in the same way that someone who liked to experiment with drugs was good at chemistry...
Wonder what will be on fire next turn.
Hathatyn!
With how underdeveloped transportation networks are in this era, being able to sail further up a river than others in the trading network is not a minor and irrelevant thing! It's not "Oh, viking raiders!", it's being able to readily navigate smaller rivers and tributaries which means you can get deeper in from the coastline, as well as still being able to safely beach your ship in poorer sites because most places don't have proper docks and harbors yet.
Also this is a big one. Portable boats allowed for trading over land because they could move across river networks, be hauled/rolled over to the next river, then keep going.
More important in regions which are a mess of small river networks, like the Hathatyn and Ymaryn(which yes, we have lots of small rivers that don't appear on the map), as well as actually reaching up the Steppes.
Worked wonders in continental europe, but in our case, river travel is described as key to holding power in Hathatyn, so still quite important.
Is it incredibly rare for a shaman to become king or heir?
Shamans usually don't care about chief business. They don't WANT to be King unless they really are the best candidate available, then it's their social duty to do so.
Leaving a saltern at 4/6 doesn't seem like the People to me. Leaving a job half done is awful.
Balanced most likely will spend a Secondary to finish it.
This was stated as the view of our admin hero, so his bonuses should already be figured into his assessment.
Admin hero also said that blocking both abuses is the best in the long run.
Lumping leads to the guild ossification route of having individual guilds with the backing power of small provinces and strong incentive to discourage change. It's difficult to fix because they will fight tooth and nail to oppose reducing the power of the guildmaster.
Splitting leads to vote trading as the minor guilds with no opinion on the vote put their vote up for bribery. It's possible to fix, but is an administrative nightmare to untangle.
So the choice here is:
-Fix the whole thing, take a difficult diplomacy check and a difficult admin check, but with a Heroic Diplomatic Administrator
-Fix half the problem now and take a difficult diplomacy check later to maneuver the major guilds into accepting change. Without a Heroic Diplomat.
-Fix half the problem now and take a difficult admin check later to untangle the myriad miniguilds. Without a Heroic Admin
If we hit -1 stability then we can just use RoO, not to mention us snagging these villages will probably lower our centralization....which means we can use a [secondary] Enforce Justice to give us more stability too.
Noting that all these villages are not connected, so a sane Admin Hero would probably run roads through them instead so we can project power better.
But RoO is really amazing under a Heroic Admin
...wouldn't that cause a really big overflow into Martial under a Heroic Diplomat? We nearly doubled the value of the invested Diplomacy last time under Magwyna.
