02-15-2014, 10:42 PM
"Well," Erich looks a little irritated -- it is a full moon night, and some random
GET OF FENRIS, shocker of shockers,
has just randomly stepped up to glare at him for a good ten seconds or so. "Here's the thing. We don't need someone 'leading' Cold Crescent like that. I don't want Cold Crescent to have its own leader, calling his own shots.
"We need a Warder 'cause we're sitting on the Pit. We need someone to organize defense. We need a Keeper 'cause we have spirits to keep. We need a Master of Rites 'cause we're gonna be performing rites there, and we need a Master of Challenges 'cause we're sure as hell gonna be having challenges.
"That takes care of all the day to day crap that you need people on-site for. The rest of it? It's all high-level stuff that the Great Alpha should be able to make the calls on, just like he has been doing for the past few months. If he needs information, the rest of the Sept officers will report straight to him. If he really wants someone on the ground, he can send Vigor-rhya or whoever else to be his ears and eyes, and maybe even his voice.
"Putting a Sept Alpha on the ground though -- that changes the dynamic entirely. Even if we start out saying that guy's gonna be the Great Alpha's subordinate, just the act of putting a single Alpha up there means Cold Crescent will have its own leadership, separate from Forgotten Questions. And if that leadership can be challenged, then what's to keep someone who doesn't want to listen to the Great Alpha from getting up there and doing his own thing? What's to keep everything from going south again?
"Do you see what I'm trying to say here? You put a leader up in Cold Crescent, then a leader can be challenged. If a leader can be challenged, then someone else who doesn't want anything to do with Forgotten Questions can get up in his place.
"Look, for the record, I'm not saying Cold Crescent should stay under Forgotten Question's leadership forever. I mean, I'm gonna stick my neck out and say I probably pushed harder for Cold Crescent to stay a Sept than anyone. And I'm happy as hell that it's back, and that we're gonna get our own Ritesmaster and Challengemaster and Warder and Keeper, and that it's gonna be a real Sept again.
"But it's too early for us to break off completely from Forgotten Questions. So, yeah. Let's just share a Great Alpha with Forgotten Questions. At least for now."
GET OF FENRIS, shocker of shockers,
has just randomly stepped up to glare at him for a good ten seconds or so. "Here's the thing. We don't need someone 'leading' Cold Crescent like that. I don't want Cold Crescent to have its own leader, calling his own shots.
"We need a Warder 'cause we're sitting on the Pit. We need someone to organize defense. We need a Keeper 'cause we have spirits to keep. We need a Master of Rites 'cause we're gonna be performing rites there, and we need a Master of Challenges 'cause we're sure as hell gonna be having challenges.
"That takes care of all the day to day crap that you need people on-site for. The rest of it? It's all high-level stuff that the Great Alpha should be able to make the calls on, just like he has been doing for the past few months. If he needs information, the rest of the Sept officers will report straight to him. If he really wants someone on the ground, he can send Vigor-rhya or whoever else to be his ears and eyes, and maybe even his voice.
"Putting a Sept Alpha on the ground though -- that changes the dynamic entirely. Even if we start out saying that guy's gonna be the Great Alpha's subordinate, just the act of putting a single Alpha up there means Cold Crescent will have its own leadership, separate from Forgotten Questions. And if that leadership can be challenged, then what's to keep someone who doesn't want to listen to the Great Alpha from getting up there and doing his own thing? What's to keep everything from going south again?
"Do you see what I'm trying to say here? You put a leader up in Cold Crescent, then a leader can be challenged. If a leader can be challenged, then someone else who doesn't want anything to do with Forgotten Questions can get up in his place.
"Look, for the record, I'm not saying Cold Crescent should stay under Forgotten Question's leadership forever. I mean, I'm gonna stick my neck out and say I probably pushed harder for Cold Crescent to stay a Sept than anyone. And I'm happy as hell that it's back, and that we're gonna get our own Ritesmaster and Challengemaster and Warder and Keeper, and that it's gonna be a real Sept again.
"But it's too early for us to break off completely from Forgotten Questions. So, yeah. Let's just share a Great Alpha with Forgotten Questions. At least for now."
BECAUSE OF LIGHT AND DUTY AND REASONS.