Artemesia Family/Garret's Realm Proposal
Proposal for a new realm
Political System
The new realm will be a theocracy to Sanguis Astroism, but the rights of nobles to practice the Order of the Seven will not be persecuted. A strict separation between Church and State will be enforced, to maintain stability and control of the realm. In all other respects, the political system will follow the same trend as that of Morek.
Registries
To ensure proper relations among the groups of Sanguis Astroism and Order of the Seven, four main registries will be formed. These are analogous to the councils of Morek and include the Commerce, Military, Administration, and Religion Registries.
Commerce Registry: All traders must maintain contact with the banker in all respects related to realm-pertinent business. All prospective traders must make their presence known as well. The registry is not meant to bar traders, but to keep accurate records of who is contributing to the commerce of the realm.
Military Registry: All infiltrators must be in direct contact of the general, and all actions must be fully disclosed to the Military Registry. This is to ensure the expedience of covert missions as well as the security of all agents involved. This is also to avoid any mishaps from miscommunication that would result in situations that would not be desirable.
Administration Registry: All bureaucrats and other nobles primarily concerned with policing, civil word, and other domestic duties will be assigned to a specialized army called the Peacekeeper Corps for the express purpose of coordinating bureaucratic works. As with the other registries, this is to allow the judge, who has jurisdiction over the Peacekeeper Corps, to assign the relevant people to the force.
Religion Registry: Perhaps what is most important is maintaining peaceful relations between those who hold onto the beliefs of the Seven and those of SA. All prospective priests, and even existing priests, no matter what religion, must make their intentions for preaching, and location(s) of preaching known to the registry, and approved. In order to preach in a location not specified in the original approved locations, another request must be placed and approved before the priest can preach in said location. Failure to follow these regulations will be reported to the judge and severe punishments might be likely.
Pian en Luries
We are aware that Pian en Luries has laid claim to the region of Balance's Retreat and the outlying mountains. We would like to point out first the practical difficulties in maintaining such a distant and isolated realm. Furthermore, a buffer area would ease transfer of ideas and resources among the highly religious Morek, and the Order of St. Iestyn in Pian en Luries. Nobles of PeL are also encouraged to join this realm, though they will also be subject to the same regulations as all other citizens.
The State
Strict separation between church and state will be enforced. In diplomacy, the fact that the new realm is considered a theocracy of Sanguis Astroism only refers to its origins by the church's efforts, and will not, and should not, be the only consideration of the realm in politics. However based on secular goals at inception, the new realm will not actively seek war with any realms dedicated to SA, or PeL.
In regards to the four realm leaders, the positions are appointed for life or until an ad hoc council of the dukes and other leaders of the realm determine that said person is incapable of further enacting his or her duty. That same council will choose a replacement and subsequently the council will be dissolved.
Sanguis Astroism is not a religion of savages who want to thoughtlessly and coldly murder all whom they consider heathens. We believers seek to understand the Truth, and we understand that such a lofty goal is very difficult to achieve, and that, as in terms of physical navigation, one's way might get lost. That is why we wish to help everyone to better understand the Truth, and in doing so, to help ourselves also better understand the Truth. After all, in walking through the many wrong paths and encountering the many dead ends, one will eventually arrive outside a maze.
Balance's Retreat once served as a stronghold where the forces of balance, of moderation, withdrew to gather their strength. The three Bloodstars equally affect such a place, and that is how we would like all inhabitants to act.
In moderation there is bliss.
