Advanced Mentoring and History: How to Gain Influence

[Foundation]

Competence is overrated.

Rating is overrated.

[egamma]

Perhaps the Marshal was indispensable in their current position.

Or, in some smaller realms, the General is made vice marshal so that his/her orders will be followed when the marshal is injured or captured.

[Gloria]

So were the Marshals incompetent?

Heehee.  Maybe.
 

I doubt it's a matter of competence, though.  It's more like a lack of interest. 

[Velax]

I'd say conflict of interest, rather than lack of.

[Indirik]

I've seen Vice Marshals becoming Generals before Marshals do.  It has happened twice in Ohnar West at least.

At least one of those Marshals has several times refused to become General. And Banker. And Ruler, too.

This also goes back to what I've been saying for a long time: Those who ask for a position, get it. Leon asked to be Strategic Commander, so he got it.

[Indirik]

Or, in some smaller realms, the General is made vice marshal so that his/her orders will be followed when the marshal is injured or captured.

In bigger realms, too. The General of Darka is the Vice Marshal of the Darkan Royal Army. It comes in handy every now and then to have the official right to be able to send orders directly to the army.