Why Most Young Dragonblooded Don’t Ditch the Realm to Set Up Petty Kingdoms

Dragonblooded have all sorts of incentives to aggregate into the biggest groups possible. Their magic is substantially stronger when they work in groups. Further, while they have long lifespans they do need to reproduce, and to make certain their kids Exalt they need to reproduce with someone who has as high a Breeding background as …

On Why the Scarlet Empress Not Being Immortal Could Help the Setting

If the Empress isn’t the immortal, monolithic individual of canon, but merely the first or latest in a line of tyrants, wouldn’t the Sidereals have somewhat greater control over the Dynasty AND have wrested control of the Imperial Manse? – Sunder The Gold Why? No, seriously, why? Keep in mind that, as we are talking …

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