1) Like real-life Cromwell calling himself "Lord Protector" (which is where the designers got the title from), the point was to reassure the populace that the city nobles wouldn't get any stronger by having royalty and an entrenched ruling system. Meaning that... #realmslore
Xyn Raven@XynRaven
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Replying to @TheEdVerse @MarquisdeCodex
... I'd like some clarification so I may accurately correct the Wiki article.

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2) ..anyone could rise from nothing on merit, "making it" in this frontier metals-trade settlement. So because the Lord Protector trained his son to be successor, and the title and power was passed down his lineage, it may seem to us to be a monarchy, but the... #realmslore
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3) ..deliberate point is being made that it is not. The council of nobles who formerly ruled still advise the Lord Protector, but he elevated some commoners and guild representatives to seats on it, and loudly proclaimed it "no longer a council of nobles." #realmslore
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4) The nobles, of course, manipulate commoners and the Lord Protector by their support with conditions, sponsorship (bribery), and "whisper campaigns" shifts of public opinion...and they still believe they rule, and that the Lord Protector is their puppet (+target). #realmslore
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Replying to @TheEdVerse
So technically, the title of Lord Protector isn't a hereditary one, just that it so happens to be. But what's the official law for deciding who becomes Lord Protector?
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There isn't one. Thus far, it's all been strongarm tactics, and "my son is my successor." Until the council forces a formal law on a current Lord Protector, that's how things will stand. #realmslore
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