Lawyer Iskalli to the rescue?
Oh I have a choice? Let's just go the usual for expediency's sake.
Dude fuck you losers. Let's go stomp the Elkenvali next month.
Oh wait we have a bunch of weaponthanes off exploring, let's hire more first (and then have even more when our explorers get back!)
Huzzah.
Hi guys.
Orlgard's also a pretty decent leader (I mean, dude
is our warleader and all, and Orlanth worshippers tend to be good at it in general) so rallying dudes seems fine.
... oh noooooooooooooooo. At least it makes a good chance to dig through our current noble pool (and also cap a new portrait for Ferena)?
Well at least we killed a bunch of their dudes. >=|
... wow we have like no young'uns either. Here's our top 10 nobles by stat pools (Rangor's grayed out everywhere he appears because he's out exploring):
As you can see from the Combat ranking, Ferena and Desrada would both make entirely reasonable replacements for the warleader slot* and are on the ring already. Even a lot of the young-ish looking portraits are still pretty old - the only ones younger than 40 are our two nominees for queens-in-training, Estavos, Intagarn, and Vandarl. (Ferena is 30 on the dot, the rest are in their 20s.) Conveniently, any of them would maintain all unique gods and our gender ratio, though the latter is a bit less important.
I'll capture detailed stats for anyone you guys want, but the short of it is:
- Estavos (worships Barntar, god of the plow) is Very Good at Animals and Plants and at least
rates in everything but Magic
- Intagarn (worships Chalana Arroy, goddess of healing) is Very Good at Animals and Leadership, and doesn't rate at all in Combat (I mean, healing goddess and all)
- Vandarl (worships Odayla, deity-whose-gender-I-forget of the hunt) is Very Good at Animals and Combat and doesn't rate in Custom
- Our fightladies are Very Good at punching things and fuck-all else :V
My personal preference would probably be to either put Estavos on to cover our mild Plants deficiency (Engarna's better than him at it, sure, but it's in his god's wheelhouse so it'd also give us back the extra block of potential Crops magic we lost because everyone sucked when our Ernalda worshipper croaked) or to unbalance the gender ratio a bit by removing one of our fightladies (because they are, admittedly, kinda redundant as-is) and put on Estavos
and Intagarn, who I'd expect to have relatively unique opinions and potential stat growth to cover our mild Magic weakness. But maybe he's surprise me, one of the past LPs of the game on SA had a shockingly bloodthirsty Chalana Arroyan and it was hilarious. :V
But the ring is Important Thread Business you guys so
that's up to you all. Maybe you all even want to do something else altogether? (Also lemme know if you'd rather I do the restructuring in the first month of Earth and spend the second month of Fire beating up the Elkenvali. Or those murderer Zethnorings. :shakefist:)
*The only place the physical positioning actually
matters, just for reference, is that the leftmost slot is chief (and even then, fallback when the chief is unavailable for whatever reason is the ring member with the highest Leadership, not left-to-right). Other positions it determines just by who's got the best relevant stats on the ring... so I guess really our warleader is probably Ferena or Desrada already (or, terrifyingly, Mosdorl, but I'm not sure how frequently it's willing to consider tricksters anything but that - it'll do them for fallback chief, I do know) but I'm not sure which because neither of them ranks high enough to slow up on the Leadership list and they both have Good as their stat.
I'll probably shift one of 'em into the vacant physical slot anyway because I want to. :V
