tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290828421410624791.post7210421109959206257..comments2024-03-14T10:32:29.233-05:00Comments on Blood of Prokopius: Saintly Saturday: St. James the ConfessorFrDavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459281821319914530noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290828421410624791.post-48834329245601557372015-03-22T12:10:35.000-05:002015-03-22T12:10:35.000-05:00Speaking as someone who a) loves to insert "h...Speaking as someone who a) loves to insert "high politics" in my games and b) also loves Greco-Roman/Byzantine History, I'm shocked the idea of exile never occurred to me. What a rich field for plots and counter-plots! This actually gets me interested in "Keep on the Borderlands" again.<br /><br />"One of the patrons of the PCs is in exile. This could either be open knowledge, done in secret or kept secret from the players."<br /><br />A good model for this would be the career of Emperor Justinian II, who was deposed and exiled, only to return ten years later at the head of an army of orcs and hobgobl...er... Bulgars and Slavs. To add an element of the grotesque, the rebels sliced off Justinian's nose when he was deposed the first time (on the theory that no one physically maimed could be emperor). Justinian then had it replaced with a solid gold nose. it could even be rumored to be magic. (Hand of Vecna, Nose of Justinian... ;) )<br /><br />Great post.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18171998919981944351noreply@blogger.com