We've just dropped a new layer of complication to the Defiant Principality general plot, expressed by the addition of a new playing character whose role is likely to become key in the desperate war that rebel Principality is fighting against their powerful lord, King Philip V of Hispannia. This new character is Lord Guillem Ramon VIII de Montcada, Marquis of Aitona, Colonel of the Hispannic Guards Household Infantry and the main supporter of King Philip among the High Nobility of Galatea/Catalonia.
If our first storyboard layer consisted just of war of a minor Nation against a major Power, shown in a simplified and therefore, somewhat manichean point of view (the enemy are "the evil ones", you know), we later added a second layer on, intended to exploit future internal dissents (through a popular, republican party eventually confronted to the ruling class). Now, this new third layer is aimed at going further beyond, showing Hispannic internal tensions about the ultimate solution to be applied to the rebel Principality, as well as a new episode of struggle -this time, between the two most powerful nobiliary houses in Galatea/Catalonia: those of Cardona and Montcada, each of them siding to one of the WSS pretenders to the Hispannic Crowns.
If curious, you can read Lord Montcada's introduction into the story here: what-if-catalonia.blogspot.com/2011/07/new-supreme-commander.html
If our first storyboard layer consisted just of war of a minor Nation against a major Power, shown in a simplified and therefore, somewhat manichean point of view (the enemy are "the evil ones", you know), we later added a second layer on, intended to exploit future internal dissents (through a popular, republican party eventually confronted to the ruling class). Now, this new third layer is aimed at going further beyond, showing Hispannic internal tensions about the ultimate solution to be applied to the rebel Principality, as well as a new episode of struggle -this time, between the two most powerful nobiliary houses in Galatea/Catalonia: those of Cardona and Montcada, each of them siding to one of the WSS pretenders to the Hispannic Crowns.
If curious, you can read Lord Montcada's introduction into the story here: what-if-catalonia.blogspot.com/2011/07/new-supreme-commander.html
2 comments:
Quite realistic, alas: divisions, long-term private agendas, rivalries, stabbings in the back and possible betrayals long before the victory and even any reasonable hope foe it!
Reminds me of the People's Front of Judea vs the Judean People's Front vs the Judean Popular People's Front vs the Popular Front of Judea - to avoid 'real life' examples...
This is the salt and pepper of Human History all around, don't you believe? ;)
Otherwise, my WSS story might seem as if inspired on the War of the Ring -and that wasn't my aim...
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