Being the steward/mayor, well its one hell of a resume, i see Mathilde eventually working for an elector count again. And frankly I don`t trust others to do this job as well as Mathilde can. Most people in power and authority are incompetent or corrupt, often both. This is our chance to not embezzle a single dime, invest heavily in the Emperors Ally, and secure its border, whilst enriching the empires trade. Furthermore, with a greater budget, and with the trust the king has for us, we can effect more change, we were greatly limited with our actions in stirland, juggling multiple masters, earning trust and approval, and fighting others for a limited budget, whilst mistrusting our fellow Councillors. Here, we will have a lot of authority, and I think being open and transparent with our plans, and how they are theorized to effect the rest of the Eight Peaks will increase our relationship with King Belegar Ironhammer. By strengthening King Belegar, enriching him, and raising his status and authority, we raise and enrich our selves, invest in people, invest in allies. When shit hits the fan in the empire, King Belegar will be able to help out, because we helped him out. We secured his foundation, so many years down the line, he can help the Empire, and other dwarf holds. This is a chance for us to do a lot of good, and to improve our skill sets accordingly. This will also tie us much more closely with the dwarfs, if we can increase their clans prestige, might and wealth, and by extension honor. Mathildes duty`s would be to bring wealth to the subjects of the King and the King. As such, increasing the connections with the other dwarf`s would be of great importance, hiring mercenary's and adventure`s, to patrol roads and passages we build to the various dwarf holds, making sure that the populace is efficient and productive. Influence culture, and religion, and healthily manage the union of so many clashing people. This is a way to boost our prestige, our authority, our worth. This is a place for us to study diplomacy, stewardship, intrigue. Our learning score, and martial score are uniquely qualified to help us in our task, as we have a better chance of finding talents in these category's who can help with various projects and organisations we will be building. Hiring our own advisory council, with dwarf, halfling, human, brings us greater access to information.
These are all possibility's, and other options bring other possibilities. I could have also misrepresented the role Mathilde would be placed in. I didn't really want to write any of this, because it's just my own flawed understanding of what could be. Which to be fair, is what everything else in the discussion is. Mostly guess work. Sure some of it sounds convincing, other posts like nonsense. In the end I wrote this because one more post, was posted displaying negative views of a voting option, I felt positive for, citing "opinions" as evidence of what will most "definitely" happen. And I frankly felt that was bullshit. So I wrote my vision of what could be. Because a lot of things are based on Dice, and chance, and decisions, that may be revised. So non of us can know. In the end, vote for what you want. Not for what I my self, or others want. And try to ignore post's like mine, painting a beautiful picture of what ifs. I guess that's what I am trying to say.
Mathilde is a talent, and she is uniquely suited for this role as steward, it brings Mathilde so many options down the road. It also returns Mathilde to a advisory role, and gives Mathilde a unique growth opportunity, people on this thread, keep writing how its an option to purely increase Mathilde`s wealth, I fail to see this. It certainly puts Mathilde in the position to heavily embezzle, we would no doubt have a vote on that option. The blatant negative portrayal many our painting this position in, really annoys me. If you want do something else, vote for something else. Why are you throwing so much shade, mixing fact and fiction, on other options? Vote for what you want, allow others to do the same, without slandering the other options please.
I feel like such a punk for writing this at all.
