Magic doesn't exist in my world. The few charlatans that sell themselves as conduits of spirits, and pretend to speak for the gods do withhold their tricks and protection in exchange for a rigid caste system that doesn't allow for trading with outsiders -- so I hold no illusions that this is anything similar to my realm. For starters, the fae are also extremely friendly.
Nevertheless, the people here are riled up with resentments. Have you been asking them why? I have.
That's why the King called for a vote. If more of the populace wants a war than peace, then it doesn't matter what he does to try to maintain a good neighbor policy, they'll undermine it without him using force to quash it. And once you throw in us off-worlders, that would be fighting a war on two fronts. But if it's just a loud minority clamoring for attention for their own ill gains, they'll expose themselves for the selfish minority they are, and prove to the fae that the majority are nothing like that.
Honestly, I wish I could have been that brazen in my lands, but as I said, the circumstances were as different as night and day.
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Magic doesn't exist in my world. The few charlatans that sell themselves as conduits of spirits, and pretend to speak for the gods do withhold their tricks and protection in exchange for a rigid caste system that doesn't allow for trading with outsiders -- so I hold no illusions that this is anything similar to my realm. For starters, the fae are also extremely friendly.
Nevertheless, the people here are riled up with resentments. Have you been asking them why? I have.
That's why the King called for a vote. If more of the populace wants a war than peace, then it doesn't matter what he does to try to maintain a good neighbor policy, they'll undermine it without him using force to quash it. And once you throw in us off-worlders, that would be fighting a war on two fronts. But if it's just a loud minority clamoring for attention for their own ill gains, they'll expose themselves for the selfish minority they are, and prove to the fae that the majority are nothing like that.
Honestly, I wish I could have been that brazen in my lands, but as I said, the circumstances were as different as night and day.