"nobles didn't like executing nobles" is silly and wrong

frankly its just not true and was never true for any of the cultures broadly represented in the game during any of the respective time periods. I think you are all confusing "put the king on a guillotine for the masses to jeer at"(a no-no, for obvious reasons, but even this happened-Andronikos I was passed around Constantinople by a mob and brutally murdered in public!) with the pretty harsh reality of court intrigue and factional fighting that would have accompanied ruling any war ravaged polity in the Mediterranean world at the time. If you were a usurper, a magnate-supporter of a failed duke/king/boyar etc etc etc chances are you needed to flee for your lives when the dust settled if you weren't already "killed on the field" or dead by unrecorded circumstances immediately or after spending a year blinded in a cell along possibly along with your closest family and supporters. I mean really it's just a silly way to defend what is obviously a balancing mechanic and I think one that should obviously be changed. No one in the western empire should give a shit if I a Kuzait general of the south executed someone's 2nd cousin from the north and neither should anyone in my realm. The only ones who should get a relationship malus should be family, friends and people of that person's faction. This sort of nuance isn't really possible with the lack of diplomacy in the game but still, let's stop pretending no one got sent to the chopping block in 1000ad or that it was a massive crime to do. It was extremely normalized even if considered in bad taste on certain occasions by certain chroniclers. submitted by /u/nbxcv [link] [comments]