• He came over to your side yesterday and is changing the state over to your ideology. They're still going to do imperialism and slavery and everything, and nothing will fundamentally change, but it'll still be your ideology, totally.

  • They've been feeding you to lions for centuries because of your refusal to acknowledge the state's authority. Now they'll stop, unless you deviate from the state-approved version in any way, in which case they'll burn you at the stake. The state-approved version involves acknowledging the state's authority.

  • He seems oddly keen on having everyone go around flashing a symbol of the cruel and humiliating way the state brutally executed your founder.

  • You don't get a say in what the state-approved version will look like, but he'll preside over ever meeting deciding that. There won't be any more communes.

Your network of communes began as a doomsday cult eagerly waiting for the apocalypse to happen where the empire you live under would be destroyed, but that didn't happen so you've all just been kinda hanging out in secret meetings trying to support each other and survive :doomer:

  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I'm not an expert on the time period but my understanding is that there were always "higher ups" who were more respected and listened to, but no formal authority or ability to enforce their views, meaning that their takes were more like suggestions. Could be wrong about it and I don't mean to whitewash because there were some problematic takes and all, but the power dynamics of the situation seem very sus.