Grab a strand of Ranaldian aligned aetheric energy and press it into one of the "X"s while praying?
AFAIK, the Empire has long since recognized Marienburg as a nation. Certainly everyone else has. The Empire would I think, be far more worried that Marienburg would use the treaty as a method of going "you can't attack us, our fort's got a Nexus in it!" than about recognition. They want Marienburg back, but they've signed treaties with them before (if you go with 1e's Sold Down the River, they've signe done specifically acknowledging Marienburg's independence) and deal with them as a separate power.
The way to ensure the Project can survive Mathilde is to begin to put mechanisms into place that ensure continuity. How else are we to do that if not by diplomatic means? And if we're to do it by diplomatic means, what better time is there to create those mechanisms than the writing of the treaty outlining all members' commitments to the exact tasks and competencies that the Project covers?
Yeah, putting the Ranald X on the same line as the other gods turns it thematic enough that I think it's an autopick for me.
Yes, and it seems people are wanting concrete rules that would not allow Empire effective veto for that.
I do think it's important that everyone is on the same page, but I think it's the sort of thing that charachters in quest would have discussed and agreed on offscreen.
If we play it right, we can get Marienburg's approval to screw over other parts of Marienburg.
He's also a god of criminals, so that logic is a bit flawed.
Just be gay, then you're doing crime
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What do you mean?Just be gay, then you're doing crime
The quest tag "be gay do crime" is refers to a specific historical - and present -fact, so I was vagely trying to bring your attention to what I saw as a flaw/inconsistency in your wording.
What kind of historical roots?
Pretty sure the reason for the threatened embargo is not because they're worried the Empire will attack them it's because the dwarven canal means the Marienberg merchants will make slightly less money and they see this as worth threatening the Empire over, safe in the knowledge that if the Empire tries anything then Ulthuan will back them up
I worded that poorly. The phrase itself don't have old roots, but it arises from the very long history - and present - of the criminalisation of queerness.
The situation is much more ambiguous than that. Mareinberg has been engaged in effectively continuous economic warfare against the empire for hundreds of years, involving both incredibly abusive trade practices and the outright physical sabotage of any alternative Imperial port on the Sea of Claws. From the Imperial perspective, Marianburg is basically a treaty port of Ulthuan.
