Vote tally - A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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[X] Well, there's currently no one more knowledgeable in law nor more skilled at parring down words than Viserys.
-[X] Compose a series of increasingly more complex (upward from the most simplistic at its core) logical exercises (described as stories/tales) that explain why rule of law is to the benefit of even the mighty, where might alone means absolutely nothing in a world where you cannot strike your foe down with force of arms, or your foe has built tools which can lay waste to your peoples sight unseen.
-[X] For example, a disease spreads through a tribe, one their lone medicine man or shaman is not capable of combating, but their neighbors have a group of healers sworn to the local lord who in turn is sworn to the king, and the king repeats the practice throughout his lands and enforces laws to keep disease from sprouting by citing precedent to keep even the strongest of his vassals from grumbling because similar precedents have gained them much in the past.
-[X] To be honest, the goal would be to state that both laws and the feudal contract aren't a zero-sum game, and your realm is built up more around chains of bureaus answering to people who traditionally do not command respect through being martial leaders, yet despite that are the best people for the job and help ensure that society runs smoothly, that there is always food on the table in lean times, buildings are always in good repair and no one does something to spread misfortune, something a more tribal society can acknowledge as only by all leaders abiding by a rule do they hold any value. Yet those same people administering the law derive authority through those most capable of upholding them as there is a mutual benefit to doing so.
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