Re: [Proposal] Recommendation to the Throne
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 3:48 pm
Tell us more, Lord Farewell!
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You actually cry more than a little baby Jake. You always have some high moral justification for putting your nose in other people's business, but its always just so you can bitch and whine about everything. Every single major change that has been proposed in Shireroth over the last six months or so have been opposed by you. If we were to follow your lead every time Shireroth would go nowhere.Jacobus Loki wrote:As Duke of Brookshire His Grace has expressed support for the rebellion, and so I respectfully suggest that he recuse himself in this matter.
All power rests in the Kaiser. His office created the Duke. Thus let him judge.
For if we are to permit Barons to take power during a momentary weakness of a duke, what stability and what law shall protect other duchies? what if Lord "A" and the presumptive Lord Allot were to orchestrate a rebellion in Brookshire with the assitance of the disaffected?
What if His Grace Lord Whoever and another Duke should sense the end of the reign of a wise but aged Kaiser, and desire to supplant the Kaiser's annointed heir with one of their own members?
This way i say lies chaos. Chaos can be fun, but it is dangeous.
I urge the lords assembled to withdraw their ill-concieved rebellion return to their loyalty, and retire unto yon soon-to-be-smoke-filled room to craft a more Shirithian settlement.
Jacobus has no problem with my motives (which were to see Duke Iskander replaced) but only with my methods (declaration of a rebellion).My good sirs, I do not cast aspersions on rthe honor of any here gathered, merely on the propriety of their actions. Mr. Leo and Mr. Allot were not here when Loki III appointed the Count of Hyperborea as Lord Protector of Elwynn, and later appointed Duke Iskander as Duke at the suggestion of the Count.
My association and interactions with the Count go back to the Days before Days, to the time of the Parliament of Audentior Before Whom All Mortals Trembled. I have always held, and still hold, him in the highest regard. I have no problem with the motives of the Count, only with the method by which these motives have been bourne out in this instance.
As for my position, it is in part a reaction due to the actions of citizens of Brookshire and other Duchies in support of the unlawful rebellion. Elwynn is a fief of the Kaiser of Shireroth, not, with all due respect, the personal property of the Count of Hyperborea, for him to dispose of as he thinks best.
The Kaiserial office once showed determination and fatherly concern regarding the fate of Elwynn. It is in part due to that old concern that I have come to the defense of the rightful Duke. I come also filled with disappointment at the lack of decision on the part of the Kaiser to protect his lawful liegeman, the Duke of Elwynn. I believe that a Kaiser has duties of loyalty downward as well as a Duke owes loyalty upward.
I am not entirely opposed to this idea. Compromise is good, and if everyone else approves of it I will grudgingly go along.Perhaps a compromise could be sought. That we establish here in Elwynn a constitution to govern us. An agreement so honourable would be sought that it would keep Iskander Mirkdale duke, but with powers only granted under the constitution of Elwynn. He would be a figurehead, symbolizing the unity of the Elwynnese people. ANd then the powers would go to the Elwynnese people, acting through the Counts and Earls of the Elwynnese realm of the Shirerithian republic, in the Council at Eliria assembled, who would decide to instute among themselves an executive, to make sure the will of the constitution is followed. The post of Envoy to the Landsraad would be appointed by the executive, provided that he follows instructions from the Council.