Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20150628202441/@comment-25418438-20150716043837

Harold Burned-Mane wrote:

Septimus Halfmoon wrote: (Tiberius called him a jumped up sellsword also emeric only needs him out of the way so Tiberius can command the guard, and since the castallen/steward would usually write up orders, but as Emeric hasn't named a new castallen and there aint no way hes gonna write them up, so for the time being the magister will do what hes told by the "lord regent of Shornhelm".) (Well Tiberius is wrong. He is not a sellsword. Sellswords are mercenaries. Jadier is a sworn Knight of Shornhelm. Just because he suspected of being corrupt it doesn't make him a sellsword.

Tiberius can't command the Knights of the Crowned Phoenix. He is neither a knight nor a member of the Order. In Jadier's absence the one that would take command would be the next highest ranking member, Sir Niten, whom is much more like Albecius, an honorable man and Lariat loyalist. For Tiberius to become their Knight-Captain he would have to be knighted and inducted into the order, before he could rise up the ranks. The only ones that can do that are the monarch whom the Order serves or the Order's current Knight-Captain.

The Knights of the Crowned Phoenix are sworn to protect the monarch of Shornhelm, whom is High Queen Dowager Abelle. Emeric does not command them. The only reason they remained in Shornhelm instead of going with Abelle to Daggerfall is because Jadier ordered them to stay, and he was given that order by Perien.

Birard has dirt on Emeric and Perien. He could blackmail the both of them. How is Emeric to know that he doesn't have a counter measure in place in case they tried to kill him, like a friend with all the information he has on them. For example: in case the Magister doesn't send word to his friend the friend will spill everything.

Magisters only deal with matters of the arcane. If Emeric doesn't want to write the documents himself he would send them to the Master of Laws, or even the Master-at-arms. Besides Magisters hold no real power, they are just advisors to the monarch, edicts written by them would hold no real value.) (1. Tiberius calls him a jumped up sellsword as an insult due to the fact he is corrupt, he basically means he is no better than a sellsword.

2. Wasn't Emeric given full control of the city by Perien as Regent of the city. If so shouldn't the order be under his authority. also I thought the Knights of the Crowned Phoenix were like the Kingsguard. And members of the kingsguard could be appointed by the monarch and by the regent. And that any man appointed would be knighted and at that point the regent/monarch can choose whom they want to lead the order. Like how Joffrey/Cersei chose Ser Jaime and Robert Baratheon chose ser barristan.

3. Also the magister would simply be writing the orders on behalf of the regent so as to conserve time, if you want I can change it to master of laws.)