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  1. 2014-09-29, 09:17 PM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #117
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    Default Re: *Queer Emperor Probelm

    Quote Originally Posted by The Glyphstone View Post
    ...so, the solution for the emperor to avoid dying without an heir and dooming the world/country to an unspecified terrible fate is....to deliberately die? Becoming undead has a rather crucial intermediary step of being dead. At which point the bloodline thingamajiggie could very well kick in and doom everyone anyways, even if there was less than six seconds of 'no living emperor'.

    (making the Mists a more likely outcome than you might expect, since being transported to Ravenloft would definitely qualify for fulfillment of a doom prophecy.)

    All part of the point. Hubris has a tendency of blinding people to things like that. Getting the Mists involved was entirely the purpose of that idea.

    Besides, then you have the fun of having the party decide what to do - get the emperor's dumb ass out of Ravenloft or stop whatever doom thingy is coming their way because the emperor's in Ravenloft.
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