Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
It probably is easier to grant fat pensions to overachievers of Imperial glory.
The kids don't inherit it.
The kids don't inherit it.
I use the historical example of the Nobles of the Sword to explain it.
Thanks. I came across the term in Dan Duncan's "Hero of Two Worlds-The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution". Lafayette's father was a "noble of the sword" who died in battle when Lafayette was a child, not unusual in his family. This battlefield death was, "such a large proportion, of father to son, that it had become a kind of proverb in our province". His family had fought beside Joan of Arc, been in the crusades and even had a novelist in it, "the Madame de Lafayette". It is this kind of tradition I think that would make the 3rd Imperium work.Excellent reference.
Thanks. I came across the term in Dan Duncan's "Hero of Two Worlds-The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution". Lafayette's father was a "noble of the sword" who died in battle when Lafayette was a child, not unusual in his family. This battlefield death was, "such a large proportion, of father to son, that it had become a kind of proverb in our province". His family had fought beside Joan of Arc, been in the crusades and even had a novelist in it, "the Madame de Lafayette". It is this kind of tradition I think that would make the 3rd Imperium work.
No, the main reason for the switch to primogeniture is because it maintains concentration of military power. If you split your realm into 4 smaller realms, each one is weaker than before until someone else comes along and conquers them and your family isn't in charge any more.
That's why primogeniture largely fades away once you aren't inheriting soldiers, but instead wealth.
One of these days I will collect all this together, edit into some semblance of a narrative (unreliable of course), fill in some gaps, and post it.
E-book, I'm telling you.
I would buy it @Sigtrygg if you publish it.