Ravens_cry
2016-01-07, 12:50 AM
Pitch: The high king of confederation* of tribes and clans has recruited kinslayers to do the dirty work that the divided political loyalties of tribe and clan members would make difficult.
This is the players. The tribes and clans have reluctantly agreed to agree to treat the kinslayers as agents of the king, but there's a lot of grumbling, especially in a kinslayer's former clan; there even could be attempts on their lives.
The kinslayers aren't necessarily bad people, but basically everyone treats them as such for their crime (whether justified or even accidental) and even the king more or less treats them as dogs to do his bidding, counting on their loyalty because they have nowhere else to go. Laws and custom against kinslaying are the glue that holds the confederation together, so it's treated very harshly. The rest of the world is just as nasty, if not worse, against outsiders.
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The idea is to have more amoral quests. Even the good ones would be done for amoral reasons. Say a wealthy clan jarl is generally driving his people into the ground and reducing tax-income for the king as a result; the latter is why the kinslayers are sent.
*Please correct me if I'm using the word wrong.
This is the players. The tribes and clans have reluctantly agreed to agree to treat the kinslayers as agents of the king, but there's a lot of grumbling, especially in a kinslayer's former clan; there even could be attempts on their lives.
The kinslayers aren't necessarily bad people, but basically everyone treats them as such for their crime (whether justified or even accidental) and even the king more or less treats them as dogs to do his bidding, counting on their loyalty because they have nowhere else to go. Laws and custom against kinslaying are the glue that holds the confederation together, so it's treated very harshly. The rest of the world is just as nasty, if not worse, against outsiders.
***
The idea is to have more amoral quests. Even the good ones would be done for amoral reasons. Say a wealthy clan jarl is generally driving his people into the ground and reducing tax-income for the king as a result; the latter is why the kinslayers are sent.
*Please correct me if I'm using the word wrong.