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Specifically, how did you create an afterlife?

Trailers wrote:Specifically, how did you create an afterlife?

The God-Emperor kinda unintentionally created it over the century or three of his ascension to divinity.

Only three centuries? Why the rush?

Pfft, immortality. Where's the fun in that? I already have my dynasty laid out for the next two or three generations. Keeps things from getting stale.

You can have an immortal royal family and have a dynasty.

Arizona Nova wrote:You can have an immortal royal family and have a dynasty.

And have scores of Erzherzogs and Herzogs and Freigrafs and Margraves and God-knows what other titles they snatch up running around? About a fifth of Skeelzots die before reaching fifty, but they still don't have attrition rates that high. Stability would be shot all to hell. The whole point of having a monarchy, as I see it, is to have a nice little pyramid of loyalties with the Kaiser at the top. I don't think a monarchy could survive if the heirs could only inherit through violent overthrow.

Indeed - think of the byzantine plots and counter-plots you'd have if the heirs have to wait for an accident or boredom-inspired retirement to move them closer to the throne. Those farther removed from the throne may even opt to make a play for it, laying the foundations with a thousand years of intrigue to clear the way without arousing suspicions, or casting them on rivals instead, all the while avoiding the plots of ambitious lessers and paranoid greaters.

To say nothing of the feuds that could arise between centuries, and over the most minor things at that, as peeves simmer and grow.

Kanuckistan wrote:Indeed - think of the byzantine plots and counter-plots you'd have if the heirs have to wait for an accident or boredom-inspired retirement to move them closer to the throne. Those farther removed from the throne may even opt to make a play for it, laying the foundations with a thousand years of intrigue to clear the way without arousing suspicions, or casting them on rivals instead, all the while avoiding the plots of ambitious lessers and paranoid greaters.

To say nothing of the feuds that could arise between centuries, and over the most minor things at that, as peeves simmer and grow.

Stop it! You're giving me ideas.

The Cerberus Alliance wrote:

Kanuckistan wrote:Indeed - think of the byzantine plots and counter-plots you'd have if the heirs have to wait for an accident or boredom-inspired retirement to move them closer to the throne. Those farther removed from the throne may even opt to make a play for it, laying the foundations with a thousand years of intrigue to clear the way without arousing suspicions, or casting them on rivals instead, all the while avoiding the plots of ambitious lessers and paranoid greaters.

To say nothing of the feuds that could arise between centuries, and over the most minor things at that, as peeves simmer and grow.

Stop it! You're giving me ideas.

And me a migraine.

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