>>5689476After this declaration is made, the nitty-gritty of policymaking and strategizing begins, and logistics are worked out. It’s important, but far from interesting, and apart from a few key elements it is largely something you can oversee or even delegate and review later. You are a male of action, not paperwork and pebble-counting! However, your disinterest in affairs gives you time to think about two matters you have NOT yet discussed… And which nobody has yet raised,a nd yet eventually must.
He first is the matter of the slaves.
Most dwarves in the mountain are free now, you have been informed—but a sizeable minority have been made slaves to the others, and to the kobolds, elves, and to the Master Race. These are the Throat—rather, the Duergar Regent’s castrated-and-shaven creatures, the ‘svirfneblin’ as he calls them. The females among them are treated as sex-slaves, the males as chattel, and those whom the Bogbarri claim are—of course—made into one more source of meat in these harsh hills. You have to assume Ekaterine would disapprove, if she ever learns of this—and how could she not? But what else is tehre to be done with them?
>You will free and return these slaves to the Races of Light as a part of your diplomatic overtures>You will grant leniency, dignity, and protections to these slaves, and freedom to those who earn it, and to their children>Slaves have their uses—those Karz highlighted, experimentation, and more—and so you will allow this status quo to persist>Slavery and slave races are a commonality across many eras and races for good reason—these svirfneblin, and their children ever after, shall be servants>Kill them all and be done with the bloody, wasteful business>Write-inThe other matter which nobody raised—no doubt FEARS to raise so publicly and so early into your official reign as Dragon King unbound, is succession. Had you appointed a Dark General, the line of succession would be clear. With you having declined to do so, it is more up-in-the-air. Nobody speaks of it, probably worried that you will see it as an attempt to plan your downfall and replacement. It is (probably) assumed one of your Queens will take over, or one of your sons… But you have three queens, and nine sons, and another spawn on the way! You also have two lieutenants now, of approximately equal standing—the Duergar Regent and Kobold Regent, Karz and the Bastard.
What is your succession plan?
>You have none-none you are willing to proclaim publicly and formalize, not yet>Your favoured successor is Duergar Regent, Karz>Your favoured successor is the Kobold Regent, also called the Bastard>Your favoured successor is the Serpent Queen Sseztlussth>Your favoured successor is the Human Queen Ekaterine>Your favoured successor is the Greatworm Queen, Glowie>One of your sons is your favoured successor (which one?)>Olu is your favoured successor>Write-in 