On Saturday, April 4, 2020, Eric Swanson
> In short, I thought it would be fun to add more ‘amplitude’ to Belim’s inclinations.
> We’ve had a number of characters, mostly but not exclusively mages, who are power seekers; but the average player character just sort of adventures and tries to be heroic and get given good shit by the king or whatever. Where has the overtly power seeking character been? I can’t remember one. Warlords and usurpers and their ilk have to come from somewhere, right?
> So I thought to myself, “Why not play Belim that way?” One of his traits was alway ambition, so why not real ambition? He’s been lying awake at night thinking “Nobody’s going to give me, a common born, title or power – I have to take it.” Along with his -1 INT and -1 SAN (which really only help his cause), and a (perhaps unhealthy) obsession with an elf woman, he’s developed his ‘warlord mindset’ and Plan for World Domination.
> To wit, he’s set out a schedule. And this isn’t meant to try to break the campaign, but rather to have Belim always thinking “How can our missions and interactions benefit my quest for greatness?” The whole ‘Book of Belim’ consists of:
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> As a warrior and aspiring military leader, why would your goals stop at some arbitrary point? Should you not seek to be the greatest general, leader, lord in the world?
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> The timeline of my ambition:
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> 1 Month: de facto control of a village/locality, begin accumulating hirelings/followers
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> 6 months: Control of a 6 village region, acquire runners, spies/informants, skald
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> 1 year: Control one of the ‘dans
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> 5 years: Tacit control of the Duchy, ennoblement and title, alliance with Ynth via marriage
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> 15 years: Control of Gladnor north of the Torgrim River
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> 20 years: Control of all of Gladnor (North Gate to South Gate)
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> 30 years: ‘Emperor’ of all realms from Ox Birch Cut to the Parched Vastness and Gwinn
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