I am no longer Steward to Hasan I.
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:45 am
I am no longer Steward to Hasan, as Hasan is no longer Kaiser by his own choice. Those who say otherwise, I ask you to search your hearts for what is better in the long term for Shireroth, not what feels good today. The lawbook says the Kaiser may not have a foreign citizenship or allegiance. But it seems as though even those who wrote the ancient laws favor ignoring it in the pursuit of delusions of granduer.
It came to me this morning. Hasan hasn't done much except make promises. Now, I know, RL trumps MN life. This is not really a problem. I was having fun being #2. I understand being buried in RL. That is one of the reasons that the Stewardship exists.
I put a good face on the fact that the Kaiser was not around, greeting people, facilitating foreign policy, reopening the stadium (although that was 90% Ari). Doing a few foreign visits, adding actual territory to the Empire. Keeping the forum stirred up. Actually doing the job. I did it in his name, hey no big deal. I have done good things for Shireroth.
All the Count of Hyperborea did as Kaiser was to promise things that don't happen, and when he does become active, it is to emesh us in a Babkhan tar-baby to serve his own ambitions.
I believe now, after watching events in Babkha, that Ardy and Hesam have been plotting to use Shireroth to aggrandize Babkha and impose a Babkhanized regime on Shireroth, perhaps even from the time of the passing of Mors V. Like little children after shiny toys, we have run after the idea of a merger of crowns.
Those shiny toys are the shackles of Babkhan tyranny! My duty to Shireroth trump my duty to an alien Kaiser who is trying to lure us into bondage.
I assume full power, pending the coronation of a new Kaiser. I urge the count of Hyperborea to confirm this by issuing a formal abdication, and withdrawing to Hyperborea or Babkha with my felicitations.
Let those who distrust my actions be assured that I will accept the Golden Mango Throne (see, I can spell it) if it comes to me. I realize that these actions make that much less likely than before, but the independence, culture and ancient freedoms of Shireroth are much more important than the ambitions of myself or the Count of Hyperborea.
I will serve a new Kaiser, or be the new Kaiser, or accept exile if the contest go against me.
Rally to me, all who would not be slaves!
Jacobus Loki
Ruling Steward of Shireroth
Duke of Yardistan
It came to me this morning. Hasan hasn't done much except make promises. Now, I know, RL trumps MN life. This is not really a problem. I was having fun being #2. I understand being buried in RL. That is one of the reasons that the Stewardship exists.
I put a good face on the fact that the Kaiser was not around, greeting people, facilitating foreign policy, reopening the stadium (although that was 90% Ari). Doing a few foreign visits, adding actual territory to the Empire. Keeping the forum stirred up. Actually doing the job. I did it in his name, hey no big deal. I have done good things for Shireroth.
All the Count of Hyperborea did as Kaiser was to promise things that don't happen, and when he does become active, it is to emesh us in a Babkhan tar-baby to serve his own ambitions.
I believe now, after watching events in Babkha, that Ardy and Hesam have been plotting to use Shireroth to aggrandize Babkha and impose a Babkhanized regime on Shireroth, perhaps even from the time of the passing of Mors V. Like little children after shiny toys, we have run after the idea of a merger of crowns.
Those shiny toys are the shackles of Babkhan tyranny! My duty to Shireroth trump my duty to an alien Kaiser who is trying to lure us into bondage.
I assume full power, pending the coronation of a new Kaiser. I urge the count of Hyperborea to confirm this by issuing a formal abdication, and withdrawing to Hyperborea or Babkha with my felicitations.
Let those who distrust my actions be assured that I will accept the Golden Mango Throne (see, I can spell it) if it comes to me. I realize that these actions make that much less likely than before, but the independence, culture and ancient freedoms of Shireroth are much more important than the ambitions of myself or the Count of Hyperborea.
I will serve a new Kaiser, or be the new Kaiser, or accept exile if the contest go against me.
Rally to me, all who would not be slaves!
Jacobus Loki
Ruling Steward of Shireroth
Duke of Yardistan
Yey Jacobus 
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His erstwhile Niftines had an opportunity to negotiate. He decided to try to use his supposed office to bully his way past any concesions or assurances, prefering to rely on absolutism.
