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Who Needs Harmony?: An MLP Empire Quest

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Pittauro said:
The big advantage in sending Gawain/Hardbeak (and maybe a few more knights) to Canterbury, beyond the obvious, is that by culling the monsters we're freeing Canterbury's army and knights from at least SOME of their obligations and duty.
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Big disadvantage is that Gawain as crown prince is to worthy to risk so as Hardbeaks squire he will need to be kept from potential dangers, which means Hardbeak will be weary limited in what he can do and in which battle he can engage, Gawains security always comes first. Remember he is to become next emperor, not knight and as such if we want him to go martial he is better to study strategy and maybe take sword lessons from Hardbeak instead of being squire, thing which would also take his attention from other's things important to running empire.
 
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Star said:
Big disadvantage is that Gawain as crown prince is to worthy to risk so as Hardbeaks squire he will need to be kept from potential dangers, which means Hardbeak will be weary limited in what he can do and in which battle he can engage, Gawains security always comes first. Remember he is to become next emperor, not knight and as such if we want him to go martial he is better to study strategy and maybe take sword lessons from Hardbeak instead of being squire, thing which would also take his attention from other's things important to running empire.
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Gawain will be guarded by friggin Hardbeak - our single deadliest hero unit -, a buttload of other soldiers and the fact that our son is pretty good at Martial himself.

Aside from that, Garrick never was the best in battle and he still took part in all wars at the very frontlines.

Gawain will be fine.
 
TheGleeman said:
Gawain will be guarded by friggin Hardbeak - our single deadliest hero unit -, a buttload of other soldiers and the fact that our son is pretty good at Martial himself.

Aside from that, Garrick never was the best in battle and he still took part in all wars at the very frontlines.

Gawain will be fine.
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And Garrick was mostly behind the lines in command position, on other hand as squire od friggin Hardbeak Gawain would be expected to engage at the heart of the battle where Hardbeak won't really have time to dedicate his full attention to him, it's either that or have Hardbeak not engage.

Basically as i said being squire and becoming a knight and being crown prince, Emperor to be are two completely different things, we must prepare our son for the rule and challenges his rule will face.

Ultimately Garrick himself proved that pen is more powerful than sword.
 
Isn't Gawain too old to become a squire? According to wikipedia, boys became squires at 14.

Right now Garrick could already be a knight in his own right. Forcing him to be a shield-bearer/errand boy at his age seems more like an insult, more than anything...
 
Nahden said:
Isn't Gawain too old to become a squire? According to wikipedia, boys became squires at 14.

Right now Garrick could already be a knight in his own right. Forcing him to be a shield-bearer/errand boy at his age seems more like an insult, more than anything...
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"Squire" is meant AS more of a placeholder Term for "Young man WHO accompanies an esteemed war Hero to learn His craft AS Part of a Regimen to prepare him for the myriad Challenger of being a Euler of a Fantasy Empire"

Even If Garrick never directly fought in Battle, He still readied himself for IT AS Part of His kingly duties.

Sorry, but Imho a Grande Martial And Diplomacy Tour is necessary for Gawain to become a Proper, well-rounded ruler
 
If you don't like the word "squire", you can simply call him apprentice. The important part would be having Hardbeak teach Gawain.

After all, with Martial 19, there probably aren't that many that CAN actually teach him much.
 
All of these ideas are well and good, but I feel like we should round out Gawain's less-than-stellar Learning and Intrigue stats before he takes the throne tbh? Like, his match ours, and that's Okay I guess, but they could be BETTER yanno? His best three stats already outstrip us, let's make him better than Garrick at EVERYTHING. (After all, Martial can be trained? Or beefed up with new armor or weapons, the rest however, are much harder to buff up than that).
 
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Pittauro said:
If you don't like the word "squire", you can simply call him apprentice. The important part would be having Hardbeak teach Gawain.

After all, with Martial 19, there probably aren't that many that CAN actually teach him much.
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The time for that may have passed, twice already, given we had a choice when he was young and another with who he hangs out with.
 
...I just realized something, now that there's a Piety category, will ALL Piety options be totally no-rolls-required auto-successes or will there be an incorporation of character Piety stats? Is Garrick's Piety stat hidden because it's sitting at zero?
 
Markala said:
...I just realized something, now that there's a Piety category, will ALL Piety options be totally no-rolls-required auto-successes or will there be an incorporation of character Piety stats? Is Garrick's Piety stat hidden because it's sitting at zero?
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Reread the vote. There is no piety category. Occasionally we might get special votes or personal actions related to religion, but we voted to not intervene more than necessary in religious matters.
 
IllogicalLogic said:
Does anyone know the average lifespan for a griffon in this setting?
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more or less the same as humans we think.

The only lifespans we know are SIGNIFICANTLY different from human standard ones are Qilin (should reach 120, maybe 150 or so, they get a bit of dragon longevity basically) and Dragons (they can live millennia).

Beings with very strong magic might likely live longer, and there are exceptions like Tirek or the Alicorns, but they're exceptions and not rules.
 
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IllogicalLogic said:
well the lifespan in what i can tell of the time period people lived about 35 yrs and the MC is already 50
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I think we have better hygiene standards than the real world equivalent, and passive magic might boost health as well.

Also nobles (that didn't get killed or poisoned) and rich people in general who enjoyed higher standards of living lived longer too.

I think the average lifespan was REAlly brought down by the horrible conditions in which most of the farmers lived. We're better than that I think
 
Pittauro said:
I think we have better hygiene standards than the real world equivalent, and passive magic might boost health as well.

Also nobles (that didn't get killed or poisoned) and rich people in general who enjoyed higher standards of living lived longer too.

I think the average lifespan was REAlly brought down by the horrible conditions in which most of the farmers lived. We're better than that I think
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure a lot of what brought the average lifespan down so far was infant mortality. If you have a dozen kids, two of them live to 70, and all the rest die before the age of 5 it tends to make for a rather low average, even if adults had a much better life expectancy.
 
We should totally found Hellquill and Longsword if we ever occupy the raider guys. Nothing could possibly go wrong! :p
 
TheGleeman said:
Honestly, that could be an image of our first Martial advisor that I forgot the name of...He was described as having lost one eye to some beast, after all.

@Questor your opinion?
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Maybe. The picture reminds me more of a world war veteran that got wounded in a bomb blast than a medieval hunter who lost an eye to a wild animal attack, but it's not too far off otherwise.
 
Questor said:
Maybe. The picture reminds me more of a world war veteran that got wounded in a bomb blast than a medieval hunter who lost an eye to a wild animal attack, but it's not too far off otherwise.
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Well it's a bit difficult to find EaW Griffon art that is suitably medieval.

Edit: and as I say that I found another:

 
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