What are the Odds?
Posted by Puffin on 11/29/17
The Faith - in the persons this time of Blessed Aleksei and Seraph Ailith - are working with Thrax again, this time to purchase a ship and crew it entirely with freemen. The traditionalists among Thrax think it'll never work. The progressives are thrilled, especially since these are visible actions by Prince Victus and Princess Alarissa. The Faith is pleased too - both at working to abolish thralldom, and the support not just from leaders of the Faith but also from the Templars and Knights of Soalce. For them, this is becoming something of a holy crusade, this abolishment of thralldom. Around the Compact, this is seen as a sign that Thrax, even if they're unwilling to blanket-abolish thralldom immediately, is still willing to abolish thralldom eventually. But of course, when high stakes politics happen, there's nothing most people can do about it but start to talk odds - odds that the coffers of the Faith will give out before thralldom is abolished, odds that the Faith and House Thrax are in for a spectacular break-up, odds that Kennex will be entirely peopled by rebels, pirates, and criminals before the year is out. The tension remains high.