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Indeed. You can even do it nearly undetectably now, with the "buy region at turn" feature. It makes the region appear to revolt, and the peasants pick you as the Lord, just like in the normal revolt-and-pick-a-new-lord scenario.I'm sad that I haven't heard of anyone doing this in the...what, gotta be at least a year? since it's been implemented...