[ ] She would ingratiate herself with the group of foundations region nobles, they liked her best, and could give her a closer eye on how sentiment about the summit was spreading under the ones most effected.
[ ] …The Patriarch of Jia had given her something of a boon and curse, with his little revelation. She had noticed quite a few eyes from the nobles of the thundering hills region on her back tonight. They were southern nobility as well, so their thoughts on her accomplishments would be useful too.
This is a bit of an interesting one. These options do not exist in contrast to each other; they're wholly independent branches of narrative potential which do not reference each other. They don't make sense if they are read as contrasting one another.
The reason being that the Foundations and Thundering Hills regions are... basically equally affected by the summit and its outcome? There's no trade, so that's a non-factor. They're both southern regions with issues/histories of Cloud Tribe raids, but the summit hasn't actually effected matters on that front yet.
Heck, if you had to compare them, it's probably the Thundering HIlls region which is impacted the most. We negotiated a thinner expansion of the borders over there, in the east, than we did in the much deeper territorial claim in the Foundations western border expanse, but expansion is actually much more likely in the east. It's got properly organized and expansion-craving clans, like the Jia, running things. The Meng's southern territories, which encompass the Foundations region, are notably neglected, disorganized, and underpopulated. In both imperials and Cloud Tribes, for that matter. There is the slice of the Foundations region which is to our direct north, with the Wang and such, but we know their sentiment about the expansion. They're happy to no longer be on the border. That's cool, but I don't know how meaningful it is to examine, unless they're going to give us free shit about it, which they shouldn't.
If we look at the futures that the summit opened up, basically all of it, at least based on information known to us/the Emerald Seas, is happening in the east. That's the tension point for territorial expansion, for Cloud Tribes clashes, for challenges to the summit agreements to foment as more organized and populated peoples struggle in a geographically narrower slice of the Wall, and it's even where the knife-fighting over the question of additional roads being built is going to come up in a hundred years.
Literally everything important to do with, or coming out of, the agreements we made during the summit are happening in the east. If we're not going to talk to the Luo about it, and we're not because we stabbed ourselves in the foot on that front multiple times, then we need to be getting into the heads of the Jia. Slash the lower nobility of the region. This isn't even a choice. There's one, objectively doing-our-job-correctly avenue here, and it's the Thundering HIlls region.
Picking the Foundations here would be repeating our dead-end choice of the Old Roads, New Roads mini-quest. It didn't work. It wasn't fit for purpose. Foundations is not for purpose, here. If we want to interact with our local neighbourhood, we should actually do it, and on the ground, productively. If we're doing an arm's length survey of a populace not typically in our direct orbit, which we currently are here at Xiangmen, then we should do it of the group of people who are more removed from us, politically, socially, and/or physically.
It's actually insane to entertain anything else, and not in any of the fun ways.
[X] …The Patriarch of Jia had given her something of a boon and curse, with his little revelation. She had noticed quite a few eyes from the nobles of the thundering hills region on her back tonight. They were southern nobility as well, so their thoughts on her accomplishments would be useful too.
Anyway, here's the typo roundup:
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"I shall prepare my scrolls to record it."
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[ ] …The Patriarch of Jia had given her something of a boon and curse, with his little revelation. She had noticed quite a few eyes from the nobles of the thundering hills region on her back tonight. They were southern nobility as well, so their thoughts on her accomplishments would be useful too.
This is a bit of an interesting one. These options do not exist in contrast to each other; they're wholly independent branches of narrative potential which do not reference each other. They don't make sense if they are read as contrasting one another.
The reason being that the Foundations and Thundering Hills regions are... basically equally affected by the summit and its outcome? There's no trade, so that's a non-factor. They're both southern regions with issues/histories of Cloud Tribe raids, but the summit hasn't actually effected matters on that front yet.
Heck, if you had to compare them, it's probably the Thundering HIlls region which is impacted the most. We negotiated a thinner expansion of the borders over there, in the east, than we did in the much deeper territorial claim in the Foundations western border expanse, but expansion is actually much more likely in the east. It's got properly organized and expansion-craving clans, like the Jia, running things. The Meng's southern territories, which encompass the Foundations region, are notably neglected, disorganized, and underpopulated. In both imperials and Cloud Tribes, for that matter. There is the slice of the Foundations region which is to our direct north, with the Wang and such, but we know their sentiment about the expansion. They're happy to no longer be on the border. That's cool, but I don't know how meaningful it is to examine, unless they're going to give us free shit about it, which they shouldn't.
If we look at the futures that the summit opened up, basically all of it, at least based on information known to us/the Emerald Seas, is happening in the east. That's the tension point for territorial expansion, for Cloud Tribes clashes, for challenges to the summit agreements to foment as more organized and populated peoples struggle in a geographically narrower slice of the Wall, and it's even where the knife-fighting over the question of additional roads being built is going to come up in a hundred years.
Literally everything important to do with, or coming out of, the agreements we made during the summit are happening in the east. If we're not going to talk to the Luo about it, and we're not because we stabbed ourselves in the foot on that front multiple times, then we need to be getting into the heads of the Jia. Slash the lower nobility of the region. This isn't even a choice. There's one, objectively doing-our-job-correctly avenue here, and it's the Thundering HIlls region.
Picking the Foundations here would be repeating our dead-end choice of the Old Roads, New Roads mini-quest. It didn't work. It wasn't fit for purpose. Foundations is not for purpose, here. If we want to interact with our local neighbourhood, we should actually do it, and on the ground, productively. If we're doing an arm's length survey of a populace not typically in our direct orbit, which we currently are here at Xiangmen, then we should do it of the group of people who are more removed from us, politically, socially, and/or physically.
It's actually insane to entertain anything else, and not in any of the fun ways.
[X] …The Patriarch of Jia had given her something of a boon and curse, with his little revelation. She had noticed quite a few eyes from the nobles of the thundering hills region on her back tonight. They were southern nobility as well, so their thoughts on her accomplishments would be useful too.
Anyway, here's the typo roundup:
Ling Qi said. "I think there is some truth to the notion,
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She sighed irritably, dragging her eyes away. "Everyone is getting too bold. Baroness Ling's retribution will be legendary, you know."
"I shall prepare my scrolls to record it."
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almost indigo wine that she was going to have to trace the source of, Ling Qi was feeling a bit better balanced.
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