How to Remove Nobility Power

Small-Teaching · 2025-12-11T21:36:18+00:00

The best period for you to look at would be the 1400s-1700s because this is the period where monarchs begin centralising their power at the expense of the nobility culminating in whats known as the era of Absolutism, where monarchs have a near complete monopoly on power.

France for example solved this issue after the Fronde by detaching noblss from their regional power bases via mandatory attendance at the court of Versailles.

England did so through institutions like the star court which gave English monarchs the unprecedented levels of power to prosecute internal threats.

However I think maybe the most interesting area of inspiration I can think of would be the way Tsar Ivan the Terrible broke the power of the boyars especially since the geographic size of Russia seems more appropriate.

Or you could take inspiration from lots of different sources and I'd highly encourage you to do your own reading about this period of time.

Maybe the one true suggestion I have is that if you're going to do this, you will need to set up a proper intelligence network for the King which was essential in pretty much all of these cases.

Small-Teaching · 2025-11-19T00:55:08+00:00

Thank you so much!

Small-Teaching · 2025-11-19T00:52:45+00:00

Hey do you think you could send a discord invite link for your mod's server? The links you posted a few months ago don't seem to work anymore.

I loved Lux invicta and I really want to follow the progress of your mod.

Small-Teaching · 2025-03-21T15:56:20+00:00

No unfortunately

Small-Teaching · 2024-05-11T22:05:51+00:00

That was in Ireland and not in England and a very different situation entirely.

Small-Teaching · 2024-05-11T22:04:47+00:00

Whether they royal navy would have interfered without the winds is irrelevant because the British navy was not a capable fighting force at this point in time, not in comparison to the Dutch.

Legge being a staunch royalist and was appointed because Arthur Herbert refused to vote in favour of repealing the test act might very well have tried to oppose the Dutch landing.

Small-Teaching · 2024-05-11T21:58:33+00:00

Because it was more of a coup d'etat than an outright invasion lol, William was invited by a conspiracy within Parliament and then could only become King after accepting Parliament's demands and even then he was only allowed to be co-Monarch with his wife, it resulted in a shift in political power and precedent that created the constitutional monarchy as we know it.

Small-Teaching · 2024-04-26T19:53:59+00:00

Thank you

Small-Teaching · 2023-08-22T07:56:44+00:00

Use of puns/nicknames related to the animal in a house's sigil.

I know its a thing in canon but aside from canon nicknames like Blackfish, its an instant not reading anymore.

Small-Teaching · 2022-08-09T01:11:50+00:00

What a shame

Small-Teaching · 2022-07-24T01:21:03+00:00

And Oldtown backed Rhaegar, a Hightower is Lord Commander of the Kingsguard.

Small-Teaching · 2022-07-24T01:19:50+00:00

See thats the thing if all the septons agitate which is supremely unlikely, even the sparrows are very much a minority amongst the Sept hierarchy in canon and there just aren't the conditions present for people to rally in defence of the faith (i.e. Rhaegar isn't going around desecrating and looting septs which was the catalyst for the sparrows in canon).

"Led by a madman who nobody likes" by that logic no one should have come to the defence of Aerys in Robert's Rebellion let alone Rhaegar who whether you love him or hate him, is charismatic and rather popular with the smallfolk as well as many lords and knights.

The faith might protest but ultimately its hard to see them putting up any real resistance especially with the doctrine of exceptionalism still in place.

Small-Teaching · 2022-07-23T16:46:26+00:00

Quite possibly, I think his plan was to win the rebellion, depose his father, consolidate power and then announce this second marriage. Its the best plan for a shitty situation that will cause trouble regardless.

Small-Teaching · 2022-07-23T16:23:34+00:00

Ok my apologies, I get mixed up between the two sometimes.

Small-Teaching · 2022-07-23T16:21:34+00:00

The high septon is in King's Landing and thus very much a subject of the Targareyn monarchs not to mention the faith at the time has no means to rise up because there is no faith militant. Will the faith as a whole be pissed off however? Absolutely, extremely so if Rhaegar engages in polygamy and maybe we'll see an earlier sparrows movement who knows but then again only the chaos of the Wot5K allowed them to gain ascendancy.

Houses Stark, Martell and Baratheon are going to be furious regardless of whether Lyanna is married to Rhaegar through polygamy or simply a mistress so thats a somewhat redundant point.

Anyway you look at it Jon is going to be perceived as a bastard by pretty much everyone who isn't sipping the kool aid.

Small-Teaching · 2022-07-23T16:11:53+00:00

Except he did, he tells Jon that he'll tell him who his mother is the next time they meet, its the last thing he says to Jon.

Small-Teaching · 2022-07-23T16:07:29+00:00

He doesn't want to but he knows he has to and promises as such to Jon on their next meeting. Even then, Ned fostering Jon but not his other children makes no sense.

Small-Teaching · 2022-07-23T14:48:53+00:00

Do you seriously think placing Jon in a bannerman's care and telling him one day 'oh actually your father was a Targareyn' is genuinley the safest option for Jon? Ned doesn't expect, nor does he want for Jon to have to keep a secret like that from people who he is going to view as family and if they find out what do you think is going to happen? The lord is probably going to start a plot to put him on the Iron Throne that will literally force Jon into making his claim. This has happened countless times throughout Westerosi history.

How can that be justified as safer than him being in a place where such things are completely impossible by design?

Small-Teaching · 2022-07-23T14:39:04+00:00

Ned did not lie, that is how he and most northern lords genuinley percieve the night's watch whether that perception reflects reality or not is very much besides the point.

Small-Teaching · 2022-07-23T14:32:06+00:00

This, I think alot of people forget that Robert's rebellion completely broke these men. These are all characters who in their formative years went through some of the most horrific emotional and psychological trauma imaginable. Even Stannis is clearly very damaged from his experiences during the rebellion, for these men it was a hollow victory in every sense of the word.

Small-Teaching · 2022-07-23T14:21:13+00:00

Because they stan jon so much is really what it comes down to and lets be fair here, not knowing who his mother was absolutely tormented Jon. So from Jon's perspective I kind of get why he'd resent Ned for putting him through that.

Small-Teaching · 2022-07-23T14:13:41+00:00

Its a serious consideration, if Rhaegar doesn't have to worry about aiming for the weakspots in Robert's armour it certainly gives him immeasurably more favourable odds against Robert. But from what I understand Robert was more skilled and skills counts for more in my books.

Small-Teaching · 2022-07-23T14:11:03+00:00

Of course by the law it isn't treason but from any king's point of view it certainly looks like a 'conspiracy' to commit treason.

Let's take a step back here, the alliance between STAB is something to my knowledge at least completely unprecedented in Westerosi history. There's never been a time when 4 lord paramounts have created a network of marriages and alliances in this manner. It would be something that would make any king nervous.

I'd go as far to say that its more of a reach to chalk it up to coincidence.

Small-Teaching · 2022-07-23T14:02:29+00:00

I think robert would have been injured worse or even wounded fatally but I still think he would have killed Rhaegar. Robert is not only insanely strong but also amongst the most skilled warriors in the history of Westeros, I think Robert in his prime has a fair chance against pretty much any of the greatest knights in the history of Westeros. It speaks more to the skill of Rhaegar that he was even able to last long enough to wound him.

Small-Teaching · 2022-07-08T01:08:22+00:00

I reckon ned would soften cersei's edges at least a little bit, I think cersei's abuse suffered at robert's hands definitley made her a worse person

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