Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-25941257-20170825174215/@comment-31763506-20170924091814

While I was doing my writeup for the second half of the 3rd Arclent War for my timeline page, a fairly obvious candidate for what Simon will be arbitrating sprang to mind.

King Alonon is ~87, and has just bestowed the royal seal on his niece Tyna, who is, if not making a play to be the head of government, definitely gathering political influence. 87 is very old by modern western standards, although we don't know what the actuarial tables are for an 87 year old male with elite healthcare in the sufficiently advanced magical world of TLS, the question has to be weighing on the Ardan government's mind.

And the line of succession is apparently unclear...

Now, add to that the fact that SL has confirmed that Feroholm and Stineford were not part of Ardoheim before the 2nd Arclent war, and their motivation for accepting being ruled from Ardford has just been turned into a small dark ball of magic, there's a genuine possibility that a disputed succession on the death of Alonon could devolve into a civil war of secession, and then guess which army would be called in by Tyna to restore order?

Another problem that could well go critical is the bad blood between the factions in Aram.