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[forgeabettertomorrow]

Type: Video
Sender ID: forgeabettertomorrow | (Darin Altway)
To: Everyone
Subject: Darin needs some added perspective for his studies
Warnings: He's stupid

[Darin pulls back from the camera sitting at a drafting table in his home. However, instead of blueprints and sketches and diagrams, things you'd normally see on his drafting table and workstation, there's...an awful lot of textbooks. Darin reaches up and pulls the small pair of reading glasses from his face and pinches the bridge of his nose. No, he's not wearing them for show, he actually does wear reading glasses when he needs them.]

Okay, this is going to sound really really weird coming from me but...I guess I could use some help.

Does anyone understand how like...government works? Like, at all? Because it seems like a whole bunch of rules and guidelines that should be common sense until they aren't and the more I read, the more I feel like I've either understood this my entire life or I'm going crazy.

Plus? I never went to school so...anyone up for a spirited debate? Something? Anything? If I spend anymore time reading I think I might eat the next book.

Comments

» video | un: tilfrosset

[tilfrosset]

I think it would depend on what kind of government you're thinking about. I spent most of my years in a Grand Duchy, though I was born in the Northern Territories where my father was the chieftain. Two very different kind of governments and that is without considering the makeup of the Holy Empire of Sanbreque, the Dhalmekian Republic, and the Iron Kingdom.

[There's a hum as she considers a subject to debate on, but then she chooses to mention something that most likely isn't going to start much of a discussion.]

I wasn't aware you wore spectacles.

[forgeabettertomorrow]

[Darin blinks, then laughs.]

Oh...these? [He pulls a pair of small, square reading glasses off of his face. Honestly, he looks good in them.]

I use them mostly when my eyes get tired. I don't need them but...it helps when I've been staring at one thing for hours.

'Chieftain?' So...You're kinda like a princess? I can kinda see it. [He gives her a friendly, teasing smile.]

Though...honestly, your world sounds similar to mine. But I really only know about how Alvale, my home country, was run. We were a traditional monarchy with an inner court and dukes controlling territory and the like. We make up probably about 35 percent of the continent.

[tilfrosset]

[Jill would agree if asked: they give him a rather striking look.]

Then it would appear you do need them at the moment and for longer, if you don't take a break.

[Though his smile is teasing, Jill purses her lips at the thought of being royalty. Technically, she could be considered a noble at the very least, but a princess? No, that's Zelda. After how she's been treated as a pawn of war and then a weapon of mass destruction, a princess is the farthest thing Jill would consider herself.]

Not really. I was just his daughter, that's all. It didn't matter that who my father was in the end.

Thirty-five is quite a bit of control. I take it that it didn't come so peacefully?

[forgeabettertomorrow]

Honestly? I've never really read about how the borders and countries themselves were formed. I know that tensions are high along the borders. Alvale's biggest claim to fame is the magical lineage and scholarly pursuits which...well, the result is that it churns out more skilled and more powerful mages.

The neighboring countries aren't fans. Océl in the North has been ramping up on their engineering developments. Supposedly they've managed to create some kind of airship...

[He waves it off.]

There's peace but...there's always tensions. Especially given the rise of Alvale's Church and the prophesy that...I'm kinda instrumental in.

I guess I just never thought about the broader ramifications of governing people the way the royal family does.