Careful what you wish for
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I wanna run an adventure where a dragon secretly runs a bank, and nobody can tell because it acts exactly like every other banker.
No spoilers, but you should check out the Sword Interval webcomic.
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You need massive amounts of wealth to gain and maintain a monopoly on violence. So they did both.
Also if you possess a monopoly on violence wealth is not difficult to obtain
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Did kings hoard all the wealth? I thought kings had a monopoly on violence, not necessarily wealth
The wealth was needed to pay soldiers. You needed soldiers to make sure people did what the king wanted, such as people paying taxes to get wealth. The whole thing with taxes and needing gold as money was basically invented for supporting militia, according to some.
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Did kings hoard all the wealth? I thought kings had a monopoly on violence, not necessarily wealth
Armies are expensive, and war is REALLY expensive.
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Also if you possess a monopoly on violence wealth is not difficult to obtain
And once you have that wealth you NEED a monopoly on violence to maintain it, which requires more wealth, and so on.
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It’s almost as if the stories of dragons were an allegory for the king or the one sin charge
I too have played the Shadowrun Returns series
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Did kings hoard all the wealth? I thought kings had a monopoly on violence, not necessarily wealth
IIRC everything you had was considered to be used by permission of the king. Like, he ostensibly owned everything and was just letting you use it.
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I must have missed the part where the dragon funded infrastructure, hired knights to keep his populace safe, propped up the food stores and economy in times of famine, and negotiated with neighboring kingdoms when needed. Oh and funding research. Forgot how often dragons did that.
And for those asking about benevolent kings:
Aragorn
T’Challa/Black Panther
Mufasa
King Arthur
King Leonidas
King Tirian
Some real life good kings(and a queen)
Emperor Augustus(look up the slave who broke a crystal glass)
Empress Wu Zerian
Cyrus the Great
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IIRC everything you had was considered to be used by permission of the king. Like, he ostensibly owned everything and was just letting you use it.
There have been various degrees of absolutely and constitutional monarchies throughout history. One famous example is the limits imposed by the Magna Carta, which only benefited nobles.
There has often been a distinction between royal property and the personal property of the royal family or members of the royal family.
For instance, many of the palaces of the British royal family are national property and Parliament has a say in their use and must provide a budget for their upkeep. The total family privately owns a significant percentage of the rented agricultural land in England, and vast amounts of residential rentals in London.
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In actuality, most corpos are run by people. Lofwyr, whose corporate umbrella includes 4758 companies, is an outlier and should not have been counted. /s
But Lofwyr literally controls 95% of the GDP with those companies, who are run by his extended family!
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I must have missed the part where the dragon funded infrastructure, hired knights to keep his populace safe, propped up the food stores and economy in times of famine, and negotiated with neighboring kingdoms when needed. Oh and funding research. Forgot how often dragons did that.
And for those asking about benevolent kings:
Aragorn
T’Challa/Black Panther
Mufasa
King Arthur
King Leonidas
King Tirian
Some real life good kings(and a queen)
Emperor Augustus(look up the slave who broke a crystal glass)
Empress Wu Zerian
Cyrus the Great
A yes, the benevolent ruler, almost as common as the benevolent slave owner.
Funded infrastructure
Or, returned a small amount of the value extracted in order to facilitate further extraction
Hired knights to
Keep his interests safe
(Hoarded resources and returned a pittance to prop up) food stores and the economy in times of famine
Negotiated with neighboring kingdoms
To further state interests
Funded research
At public expense for private gain
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I must have missed the part where the dragon funded infrastructure, hired knights to keep his populace safe, propped up the food stores and economy in times of famine, and negotiated with neighboring kingdoms when needed. Oh and funding research. Forgot how often dragons did that.
And for those asking about benevolent kings:
Aragorn
T’Challa/Black Panther
Mufasa
King Arthur
King Leonidas
King Tirian
Some real life good kings(and a queen)
Emperor Augustus(look up the slave who broke a crystal glass)
Empress Wu Zerian
Cyrus the Great
Show me this king that personally leads the road building crew
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Here there be
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Show me this king that personally leads the road building crew
show me a dragon that doesnt burn down villages
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-d29z8G6U28 And here this exact post is, animated with the original voice acting!
Well
No
the voice acting comes from a different channel @ZacSpeaksGiant but the animator and him have a mutually beneficial relationship.
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I must have missed the part where the dragon funded infrastructure, hired knights to keep his populace safe, propped up the food stores and economy in times of famine, and negotiated with neighboring kingdoms when needed. Oh and funding research. Forgot how often dragons did that.
And for those asking about benevolent kings:
Aragorn
T’Challa/Black Panther
Mufasa
King Arthur
King Leonidas
King Tirian
Some real life good kings(and a queen)
Emperor Augustus(look up the slave who broke a crystal glass)
Empress Wu Zerian
Cyrus the Great
Never would have thought to find a shill for royalty in the year 2025
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show me a dragon that doesnt burn down villages
Show us a fucking dragon
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show me a dragon that doesnt burn down villages
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Show us a fucking dragon
can it be fucking a car?
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Well
No
the voice acting comes from a different channel @ZacSpeaksGiant but the animator and him have a mutually beneficial relationship.
True, and he does link the source.
