I know I was looking at her as an option for a character concept I've been kicking around.

Saralynne has resigned, given Ottilie her key, and if asked states something vague about 'lack of leadership' and 'childish egotism'.*

They are sarcophagi, but they don't match any of the others in the area. I'd make the argument that there's clearly nobody buried in them, especially if they're filled with loot, so it's not grave-robbing. Just tomb-robbing.

I would assume that Bospir and Immersea have their own local methods of adjudicating 'civil disputes', methods which haven't been written by foreign Tyrrans and dictated by folks in a different city fully fifty miles away (in the case of Immersea), and who have no real knowledge of their local needs, but instead by folks who live in those communities. It's quite possible they don't have these methods written down at all, because you don't really need to do that when you live in a small village with like fifty people in it. I don't need a lawbook if I can throw a rock from anywhere in town and hit the mayor's house.

They have people for this, is what I'm saying, and it's not us.

~Sara

I don't think this is our wheelhouse, but if you folks want to come up with a proposal or something, and you haven't already been dissuaded, I'm not sure I could manage to do so. So in the interests of due diligence I guess I'll contribute to the discussion.

Point 1: Don't do this. Even if you could somehow convince the people who can actually put this into practice that it's good idea, it'll make us about as popular as gangrene.

Point B: So, you've decided to do this. Well, from an average adventurer's perspective, "less flowery" is a good call. I haven't read, and am not going to read, the attached "lawbook". It's really long. It's a dozen times longer than the entire list of crimes in the city. Also, as a mage and a sorceress, the idea that some idiot Tyrran or whoever could sit and judge the actions I take in the name of my craft and my goddess is offensive. No offense, but the idea that a mundane - or frankly even a priest, save those of Mystra and maybe Azuth - could ever be impartial in such a trial is ridiculous on its face. So you'd need to have some kind of Magical Crimes Judge, I guess.

~Sara

If they are hiding out in the Stonelands and aren't working with the Horde, we could definitely use that. Allies with a keen knowledge of that area would be useful, especially with some of the plans Kel has talked about.

~Sara

I agree with this on several levels, and I feel like it'd be a pretty sensible move - as you say, there's not a whole lot of tax to be claimed from them in the first place. On the other hand, I don't think we Twelve have much say - or any say at all - on matters of taxation. I feel like folks are getting hung up on the word "Council" a lot, so it might help if you mentally substituted it for something like "Band", or "Guild", or some other word that more accurately describes what we do when we're not arguing.

Basically, I think you should send this to the First Peer directly, so that it can be weighed by those who can actually make decisions.

~Sara

From speaking with the Lady of the Mist, the impression I got was that Kingsley was... Serving her, in some fashion? And the marriage proposal is related to that. I'm not sure if it's about "restoring balance", but she said something along the lines of "the land need[ing] a king". I don't tend to believe stuff like that, but the way the Lady said it felt more like a prophecy than Siamorphan right of rule.

~Sara

An addendum, later.

I believe Lady, and therefore the Mist, to be benevolent, which is fortunate because she's definitely incredibly powerful. But the thing about powerful and ancient spirits is that their idea of benevolence doesn't necessarily track with the mortal conception.

Well... Isn't one of the rats after Keline? And it wouldn't be too weird for her to wander out the gates ""on her own""...

Sara

Those tools are pretty finnicky, and break completely when you've got multiple summoners.