Spirit vs letter of the law. That kind of thinking might work for a 20th century CEO who treats the law like a security door he can put more money in to get more security, but I think the spirit of the law means far more in WHF. You can rule lawyer all you want, but that won't stop a knife in the dark or a furlough on the fire pit.
We're still beholden to the Vow of Poverty - "a Knight must have an estate from which they draw the income necessary to maintain their arms, armour, and retinue. " that is to say they draw the income necessary for performing the job of being a knight.
...I'm reminded that adoption is totally a thing. I mean, I doubt that this is actually how it would shake out, but still.
I'm extremely confident that acting that way would be nothing but a method for getting a very urgent summons from the Bursar.
Id argue that's exactly why we would want Wilhelma's daughter as a noble of some sort if she's going to be a Grey AND head of a very profitable company.
Cool, I thought so, but wasn't sure because they look so much lankier than ogres.
My whole point isn't that the Grey College would just knife you if you tried this. My point is that, in WHF Empire, there's always a Sword waiting to kill you. Nobles play games and push boundaries, but they do so completely aware that if they push too far, and cant be blocked by the law, then they will wake up one morning a head shorter.
Nobody would care, but now that I think about it, aren't we not doing that? The spirit of the law is probably just that we have territory which we draw taxes from, but in Mathilde's case she just stuffs it back into the territory since she has no idea what to do with it. Imagine someone trying to pull Mathilde up on breaches of the law because she keeps letting her territory have all its income
I'm not saying we should start collecting piles of gold to decorate the hallways, but as far as Wilhelma's daughter (or grand-daughter as I'm remember now, maybe?) being a grey Wizard set to inherit the biggest trade company in the Eastern Empire... It just makes sense to me that we would pursue the extra layer of defense a noble title would confer as far as managing large amounts of money go.
Syncreticism, mutation, convergent evolution and splintering does complicate things a bunch.
This has been gone over before. If we're having kids, adoption is the route.
This page has a pic of one smashing a horseman. Not super clear for height comparison, but it's something.Cool, I thought so, but wasn't sure because they look so much lankier than ogres.
I guess hunting in the ice doesn't make for full bellies all that often
That would be Regimand: Mathilde's former Master when she was an apprentice and journeywoman.
Also, it is legitimately earned money that comes from providing a service the empire needs.
But i need to get to work
Two things: A) There is no law that obliges nobles to be rich, just to have enough to fulfill their duties to their vassals and to their lieges. So there's no law here to completely supercede the Vow of Poverty and render it void. B) If the Vow of Poverty is an actual vow Mathilde took during her education and not just a misnamed Rule of Poverty then it still carries weight. More so if you subscribe to the idea that knights are supposed to be especially honorable, something that goes counter to breaking vows even if they make duties harder.
This sounds like it would be close to ideal, but I see a few issues with it. The Empire doesn't seem to have any university MBA degrees. Wilhelmina's whole point was to raise someone who would know how to run the EIC both from a technical and a moral standpoint. Any replacements run the risk of being less competent, being less trustworthy or both. That is especially true if the CEO is elected by the nobles who aren't Anton.
56%, as it presently stands.
Less 'spirit of the law' and more 'arbitrary power', TBH.
