Wow, well done. I think there's more detail than I would use but hey, more is merrier. Great sub!
A culture has it forbidden to say their rulers name under penalty of death. Anybody in power must be referred to as their title. Comes from the fact that the rule or position can be taken over by anybody from any level in society. To use the title elevates them or brings them down from whatever level they were originally at before they took the position. Respect and authority comes from the position, not from previous life.
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And yes, pretty much; if the aerial patrols fail, if the landward watch towers fail, and if the fleet's penned in, a fireship would make life very tough.
That's realism for you. History's filled with examples of defensive positions thought "impregnable" until the opposition pulled a fast one or thought up an obviously "impossible" tactic. (Come to that, how many castles were taken by treachery as opposed to by storm? As few as three to one?)
The major war I've mentioned a couple times in my submissions between Warwik and Menahem a few years back was one of those, very much of an England-France battle between the dominant naval power and a very strong land power, with a couple hundred miles yet between their shores. Menahem launched a seemingly suicidal onslaught with their entire navy and half of their merchant fleet against the far superior Warwik navy ... only their real tactic was to ground the right ships on the Warwik shore to establish a beachhead: just long enough for the temporal wizards to create a Gate to Menahem through which the bad guys would stream their legions. The only reason the Menaheem failed was that the PCs led a surgical strike to take out the Gate on the relatively unprotected MENAHEM side, so the Menaheem only poured three legions and change into Warwik instead of ten ... and even so, came within ninety miles of Warwik City before the offensive was blunted. Go to Comment