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[b:lit][blue]Winner:[/blue][/b:lit] Sorry, baroness, what?
[b:lit][red]86 on the d100 lets you hold your baffled tongue before you make things worse.[/red][/b:lit]
Several questions run through your head at the King's words, so many so that they collide with one another and fall into a jumbled mess. It takes your inebriated mind a good moment to get them all in order, like a secretary sorting through a pile of papers scattered across the floor. The picture your thoughts paint is like a puzzle missing several pieces, with only the vaguest outline of an image and no context for what should be there. What you [i:lit]do[/i:lit] see makes no sense, contradicting what you know and giving you a migraine.
If the King says you are now a baroness, then you are now a baroness. It is not your place to question why or how, only to obey his edicts and understand that sudden as this may seem, this is [i:lit]not[/i:lit] a declaration he can simply make upon a whim. A King is not some dictator who can declare a horse the mayor of his capital, if the fancy takes him. He is the chief executive of the tremendously complex system that is the Kingdom. That is what separates the Daffodil Kingdom from the petty kingdoms of old.
There are laws and processes that [i:lit]none[/i:lit] can circumvent, even the King.
This is something the Duke of Sonnenblume had drilled into your head above all else: [i:lit]In the Land of Daffodils, the First Authority is the LORD. The Second Authority is the Law. The Third Authority is the King.[/i:lit] The Law is derived from the King's interpretation of the LORD's teachings to humanity, taking into council the word and practice of his Four Cardinal Dukes. To the North, Azalea. To the South, Camellia. To the West, Primrose. To the East, Sonnenblume. Each of them bring to the King the practice of their subordinates, to create the clockwork of the Kingdom and align the system of rule.
For a knight to be raised to Baronet or Baroness is not without precedent. Lines die out, territory may be seized, fallow lands may be developed, developed lands may grow more prosperous, and in each case the Law demands that the appropriate positions be duly filled. Inebriated as you are, you heard the King name you of Liliendorf, so you know your seat has not changed. Yours is thus a new title, rather than an old. But last you checked, Liliendorf was merely a village, while a Baroness must be seated in an incorporated town.
Or, it might be better said that by the practice of Daffodil's Law that the administration of a Hamlet or Thorpe requires only the military protections provided by a Knight. The administration of a Village requires either the legal governance of Baronet, or the military protections provided by a Knight who reports to a Viscount or greater. The administration of a Town demands the legal governance of a Baronet, Baron, or Viscount, depending upon circumstances byzantine enough that simply thinking about them makes your head swim.
