Talk:Re-Estize Kingdom/@comment-130.226.87.143-20180621182602/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180630215446

Theoretically, the King should be the original source of the legitimacy of the Nobility. The first king is a military dictator, and the nobles are simply his appointed advisors and lieutenants.

Re-Estize is in the last stages of degeneration and decadence, at which point the original feudal allegiance system has broken down almost completely prior to an inevitable civil war, which is why the king can no longer revoke the titles of nobles who are corrupt, incompetent, or disloyal and elevate new nobility which would serve the interests of his nation.

There are people less incompent than the nobles...but the MOST competent are working to overthrow the entire system, not preserve it. Renner is the prime example, but Eight Fingers would have been in the same general category, though for different reasons and with different goals. Many of the more competent Adventurers (and Workers) and other skilled people (like Magicians and Clerics) are probably similarly motivated when it comes to a question of the fate of the whole kingdom...they'd rather drive a stake through the heart of the nobility than try to rescue them.

But most of them probably are focused more on how to adapt to changing circumstances than bringing about fundamental change as an end in itself.