While houses can accomplish much of note during this game, where access to the great powers of the kingdom is within reach, the metagame goal is to have influence over the holders of the Great Offices of State, with the ultimate prize being control over the Regency. Following Richard's decision at the Coronation Banquet, each position will be vacant. Characters will be able to invest glory they win during the game into offices on behalf of their house. They must choose whether they are investing or keeping the glory before day change on the day they complete the event or action that gained them glory. At the end of the game, each house will be able to vote on a poll to determine who gains the office they control. This character will be aware that they owe their position to your house's influence. The house with the greatest total influence when Richard leaves will have the opportunity to nominate the Regent of England during the 3rd Crusade.
The Great Offices of State [Officeholder at Game Start]
Lord Chancellor [Vacant]
Lord High Treasurer [Father Richard fitzNeal]
Lord Great Chamberlain [Aubrey de Vere, 1st Earl of Oxford]
Lord High Constable [In Abeyance for the Minority of Henry de Bohun]
Lord Justiciar [Ranulf de Glanville]
Lord High Steward [Robert Whitehands de Beaumont]
Buying an Office
Historically, many of the original officeholders simply bought back their offices. In some cases, this appears to have been the Lionheart's original intent. However, the bidding was open to anyone, and some offices did change hands. Money was not the only thing necessary to gain power; there is evidence that a higher bid for Chancellor by an Italian courtier was rejected in favor of a local man, but it was the least risky way.
In our game, ten pounds sterling (just about the yield of a single manor for a year) can buy you a Glory Point that you must immediately invest. You may wish to be aware, however, that the Great Offices of State are not the only things for sale during the coronation. All investments are final. The Lionheart does not do refunds.
Influence
Influence
Gm * Man of Angles * Sionnach * Scealai *
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning,/Every poem an epitaph. And any action/Is a step to the block, to the fire, down the sea's throat/Or to an illegible stone: and that is where we start.
We die with the dying:/See, they depart, and we go with them./We are born with the dead:/See, they return, and bring us with them./The moment of the rose and the moment of the yew-tree/Are of equal duration. A people without history/Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern/Of timeless moments. So, while the light fails/On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel/History is now and England --Eliot, Little Gidding
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning,/Every poem an epitaph. And any action/Is a step to the block, to the fire, down the sea's throat/Or to an illegible stone: and that is where we start.
We die with the dying:/See, they depart, and we go with them./We are born with the dead:/See, they return, and bring us with them./The moment of the rose and the moment of the yew-tree/Are of equal duration. A people without history/Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern/Of timeless moments. So, while the light fails/On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel/History is now and England --Eliot, Little Gidding