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Why are Conquerors the way they are? It's fine and logical when they conquer what's immediately around them, but I've done a few games in Quebec now and have always ended up with some Conqueror from the former US travelling to what must be near the edge of their diplomatic range to nab a duchy or two. In my most recent one the queen of Illinois vassalized the Duchy of Ottawa, in a previous one the Presidency conquered Sept Rivieres, and in another one a Galvanist queen conquered Esterie. Apart from it being annoying suddenly having a new neighbour with 4000+ man power, it looks bad on the map and doesn't make sense for why they'd choose to take such random duchies so far from their core territories.

So in the Final Empire the Obligators teach that the Lord Ruler is the Sliver Infinity and a piece of God. But what is God; both to the Scadrians themselves and in actuality of the universe? I suppose to the Scadrians it doesn't really matter who or what God is since they worship the Lord Ruler instead of any God directly. But in the actual Cosmere? Do they (unknowingly) worship Preservation? Or is the God of "Sliverism" (to use the Era 2 name) made up to justify the Lord Rulers absolute tyranny?

What do you think size 3 frames would look like for SSC, IPS-N and Horus?

I've been making a character (a Lasombra called Michael) and I'd thought to make one of his Touchstones a ghoul who also be the two dot Retainer advantage. Or do Touchstones have to be completely mundane?

How did Pride force Mustang to do human transmutation and why did the Truth punish Mustang for it?

Human transmutation must require some form of intent to be able to get the desired result (such as when Ed created the Portal whilst inside Gluttony and deconstructing and reconstructing himself), otherwise it would just do the same thing every time. But Mustang almost certainly would not have had any kind of intent that would concern human transmutation, that would all have had to come from Pride to turn the scientist into a nugget and Pride looked like he'd have been in range to be caught by the portal. But Pride wasn't taken and Mustang was and was blinded for doing nothing.

I'm at the sewer and have retrieved all the plugs required to rescue Ada. I have no bullets, no normal gunpowder (two bits of yellow gunpowder though), no knives (spent them when I got grabbed by the sewer flesh blobs), and a couple flahbangs in the chest. I do have some saves from previous stages so I can go back if I really have to.

Klaes Saudatir (Callsign: Rain)

Klaes was born in the belt of the remote Ddartir (th-ARE-tear) system, a place where ThirdComm and its Pillars are near mythical and exploitation, abuse, and deprivation are lifetime realities for the millions of denizens of the planetoids, stations, and asteroids in the outer reaches of the system. Born under 1/4g on the mined out and spun-up asteroid-city of Ddowitz and with never quite enough air and water thanks to the greedy rulers on the systems only planet of Ddartir Prime (very thin atmosphere and 3/4 Cradle gravity, but with extensive cities tunnelled into the rock and built beneath domes) rationing basic resources just enough to keep the workers of the outer system suppressed. Most of his life was spent working, first helping doing jobs around the station as part of his education, learning to repair and optimise air and water filters, and later as a miner in one of the rarely distributed (and heavily guarded) models of mining mech printed on one of Ddartir Primes primters. As he got involved with the Ddartir Revolutionary Union, his skill at piloting the mining frames got him selected by his sect council on Ddowitz as a prospective to send out of the system to try and either send word for help from ThirdComm or the Albatos, or to gather funds to hire mercenaries in the Unions efforts to free the Ddartir system from inner and corpro rule as a Lancer. He was chosen. Funds were circumspectly raised, he said goodbye to his family and friends who he would almost certainly never see again, and the boarded the nearlight ship bound for ThirdComm.

Dame Talic Pier-Raes (Callsign: Lightbringer)

High Lady Theresa Gregoros Lapien-Vannerheim lacked for nothing. She was the heiress to coreworld nobility, her mother the princess of an entire system and part of Uniones political aristocracy with contacts from Cradle to the Baronies to the Constellar Worlds. Anything Theresa wanted, she got. When she discovered the Albatross movies on the Omni and decided she wanted to be a pilot at age 13, she had her pick of teachers from across Union as well as a training mech designed and printed by SSC artisans who travelled to Lapien just for her. Much to her mother chagrin, Thereas passion for mech piloting and the Albatross knights did not waver as weeks, then months, then years passed and her skill at piloting chassis grew. 3 years later once she had outgrown her training chassis Theresa spent an exorbitant amount of Manna and favours with both Smith-Shimano Corpro and IPS-Northstar to have her family's SSC artisans redesign a IPS-N Nelson chassis to her wishes so she could take part in mech tourneys on Lapien. It was inevitable (to herself atleast, her mother clearly didn't think so) when she left Lapien for the stars to become a Lancer. She snuck down to the Union offices on Lapien to create a new identity for herself and make sure all her files were in order with all the relavent ones copied over to her new identity, she wrote a letter to her mother explaining the reasons she was leaving and that she'd already be gone when she got the letter but that she would be missed terribly. Then she got on a ship and set off for the stars to become a knight like the Albatross' in the omninet films, a hero bringing hope and light to the forgotten and downtrodden.

Mat Serra

Mat grew up in the slums of Elendel hearing stories about the Survivor and the Ascendant Warrior, Skaa who rose up against their wealthy oppressors, stories preached by rich Survivorist Priests and most publiclly practised by nobles and buisnessmen. But the Survivor was Skaa, the Ascendant Warrior was Skaa, and the only difference between Mat Serra and the Skaa is that they had a word for what they were, Mat and her family? They're just workers. Their vote in the Elendel "democracy" owned by their nobleman employer. But Mat isn't powerless, Mat is Twinborn, and who can blame a girl from the new Skaa-class from doing as the heroes who tore down the Final Empire did so long ago? Hypocrities and traitors.

Robinhood type character (steals from the rich gives to the poor) who idolises the Survivor and Ascendant Warriors and the other heroes who brought down the Final Empire and hates the Church of the Survivor for using their names whilst doing the opposite of what the Survivor did and taught. Her father is a wealthy Terrisman (where she gets her Skimmer power from) who had an affair with her mother and abandoned her when she became pregnant with Mat, but she has a step-father and half-brother who she loves. She is a Iron Compounder and an agent which she uses mostly to reduce her weight as much as possible to "fly" around and break into the manors of nobles and factory owners, she prefers to fight using a pair of duelling canes (a longer one for offence and a shorter for defence) and hasn't killed anyone before (to her knowledge atleast, bashing people in the head with sticks can be tricky).

They've currently been soaking in a dish of water for an hour and a bit.

Not really a point to this post, just a thought I had. Bit of a ramble. Do the Aiel and the Amayar believe in reincarnation?

I realised a bit ago that the Aiel and Amayar have similar philosophies(?) about life not being real (which I think is a cool world building detail that two cultures so distantly separated but with the same common ancestor in the da'shain Aiel which suggests that the da'shain had a similar philosophy towards life and also hints towards the distant connection between the Amayar and the Aiel.) which we don't see a similar view from any other cultures (at least I don't remember if there is) who all believe that when you die you're soul goes back to the Wheel and is eventually spun back out. Even distant and barbarian cultures like the Seanchan believe in the Wheel and reincarnation (maybe other ideas existed amongst the natives before the Seanchan Empire genocided them but).