Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-31113156-20170212105313/@comment-31340684-20170219023921

I chose the letter. I have no idea whats goind on with the dwarves, but after the attack you interrupt during your visit they seemed quite capable of discretion and trying to force things to go your way isn't likely to help that situation. I also chose to side with the OZL. Partially due to previous dealings in Ardoheim but also because NUP isn't strong enough yet and all the other parties are rather unfriendly. One of the themes of this game seems to be about managing limited resources, whether that be wealth, time, or even sometimes favors owed. Some games use notice boards in towns to distribute sidequests to the heroes and I love how Sierra Lee pokes fun at this notion of "heroes" going around spending all thier time on other peoples problems. But that also remains true in the large scale as well. We cant expect to solve everything ourselves, Simon isn't going to make everything better for everyone. These nations have to be able to effect thier own brighter futures. If Simon is simply going to go around conquering every nation one by one and forcing all the beneficial changes on them for thier own good then everything Ginasta said about him was absolutely true. I prefer to keep Pragmatism aimed towards other shard bearers and let idealism decide my treatment of other nations.