I like this idea very much. Frees up the actual noble slot for active warfare, leaving the other, non essential work like courtier, bureaucrat, etc to the Aristocrat.
If it is non-essential why do we do it? If it is non-essential why do we bother to model it and waste our time coding it and bug fixing it. This is exactly the mindset I talked about that everyone wants their cake and eat it too. If all we are going to do is offload this sort of work to a pointless 2nd character slot, we would be better off removing the features completely. Once players don't have to make a REAL choice about having a character undertake these roles, they lose all meaning.
