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Astrum and Morek have no reason to fight. Their one-time rulers, Brance and Bustoarsenzio, were close friends. There was really only one incident, many years ago, that saw Morek and Astrum at odds.
7. War of Flowers: Church-sanctioned wars between SA members - terms decided beforehand - loser pays winner x amount. Like tournaments, but with more peasant death.
Start a fundamentalist movement and antagonize the moderates.
I've thought of that I'm not sure if anyone would go for it.It could be accomplished by just setting troops on murderous so that wouldn't necessarily require a war. Although claims of cheating in these grand melees might be cause to start one.
It's something I've always wanted to do - get a few single duchy kingdoms in a small area, and have them just war each other symbolically. Or, you know, since I mentioned War of the Flowers... How !@#$ing epic would it be to get an Aztec-inspired society-religion (but updated to a more medieval mindset) that overlaps the tiny kingdoms? Symbolic wars, where captured nobles are executed to feed a god of renewal and blood.
What do you think is happening now? >_<
Wrong continent, wrong time.
Not at all - you can take Aztec symbolism and ideas and easily slot them into a feudal society. In fact, I'd argue they work better than some of the religions already floating about Dwilight.
He was referencing the pseudo-Aztec religion he made on Belu. Cult of Blood or something other, I think?
This is absolutely correct.If Chénier hadn't insisted on the Aztec-inspired naming and such, I honestly don't see any good reason why his original Blood Cult ideas wouldn't have fit Dwilight just fine. From what I can remember of the basic principles, they were pretty abhorrent to modern Westerners, but would be relatively reasonable to a medieval non-Abrahamic society.