What about giving the judge power to arrest other nobles? but give nobles choices between being arrested willingly or fight with guards with his men? Guards can be militia units or the judge's units.
An excellent idea. Justice Bao in ancient China showed no fear or favour in arresting anyone including Royalty apart from the Emperor. The power to arrest a noble makes playing a judge very appealing. If someone is found innocent he can then be released. If not then mete out a punishment. If he abuses his powers he can always be protested out.
On the choice to go willingly or not - yes, yes, yes! To balance things out.
In fact, wouldn't be nice if each character had his own history instead of a family history?
Another excellent idea. About time character history was streamlined.
