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exactly Lo'oris Send a noteboard - 19/05/2011 08:06:43 AM
A system that relies on both leaders being competent. In a system where the defining criteria for achieving that position is that your parents were the previous rulers, or that you married the current ruler. Nothing in that system encourages competence at all.

And what happens if these two supreme but equally powerful authorities disagree? Paralysis on the Blightborder?


exactly.

In a country with a single monarch, if he's incompetent you risk going into chaos... if you have two monarchs who disagree strongly (and don't tell me it will never happen) you have a very bad civil war.
And this is just one random example on why this is a very stupid idea.
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Io iudico bene questo: che sia meglio essere impetuoso che respettivo, perché la fortuna è donna ed è necessario, volendola tenere sotto, batterla e urtarla.
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Or any woman for that matter. *NM* Stephen - 16/05/2011 01:00:55 PM 448 Views
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I'd be surprised. Fanatic-Templar - 18/05/2011 02:01:31 AM 967 Views
Re: I'd be surprised. Lo'oris - 18/05/2011 04:19:43 PM 874 Views
Not necessarily sleepinghour - 19/05/2011 12:33:24 AM 973 Views
That's an intrinsically flawed system though. Fanatic-Templar - 19/05/2011 05:03:59 AM 895 Views
exactly Lo'oris - 19/05/2011 08:06:43 AM 942 Views
Re: That's an intrinsically flawed system though. sleepinghour - 19/05/2011 09:10:33 AM 1054 Views
Where does this come from... entyti - 16/05/2011 06:39:06 PM 1004 Views
Re: Where does this come from... sleepinghour - 16/05/2011 06:53:55 PM 1062 Views
Ah, I missed that part of the marriage bargain *NM* entyti - 16/05/2011 09:46:34 PM 420 Views
You're mistaken... DomA - 18/05/2011 02:49:51 PM 949 Views
Actually, if there is any truth to her Accepted test, he isn't THAT much in charge. Cannoli - 17/05/2011 02:51:12 AM 1108 Views
Not necessarily... fionwe1987 - 17/05/2011 05:05:56 AM 939 Views
Re: Not necessarily... Kaldric - 17/05/2011 06:55:01 PM 882 Views
Ummm... that was exactly my point. fionwe1987 - 17/05/2011 11:34:46 PM 924 Views
My point... Kaldric - 18/05/2011 02:21:56 PM 960 Views
Of course the setting is malleable in TAR. fionwe1987 - 19/05/2011 04:21:50 PM 935 Views
What we know about the Malkieri customs from NS seems to supports this too Zeratul - 17/05/2011 10:32:20 AM 1114 Views
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