Once you rip out the heart (and eat it), the previous dude is obviously now killable (and dead).
I meant what is the point of killing the leader? Like, the reason succession rules exist is because the leader has to die at some point and there needs to be an agreed upon process how to transition the power in a non-violent manner. If Borisin sets the leader as whomever can kill the previous leader, that's not succession, that's usurping power. Also that's an immensely unstable way to transfer power and the system would encourage would be challengers to try to kill the leader all the time. That's a good way to ensure the civilization doesn't survive.
I mean I get these guys are modeled after wolves (where challengers fight the pack leader and chase off the leader to inherit the pack), but like...wolves are animals and have pretty limited intelligence and their social unit maxes out at around 30 individuals. Borisin are sapient werewolves that live hundreds of years with a complex social structure that involves a slave caste. This shit is not comparable.
As far as I know, the battlefield for that war never took place on the Luofu itself
Wait what? I thought the Battle of Shuhu happened on Luofu? Like the Quintet gathered at Yubie's statue to prep for the big battle and stuff...
In the Shackling Prison.
But Jing Yuan said the decision to lock Hoolay in Shackling Prison was the Marshal responding to the events of the Sedition. Unless you mean that Hoolay was stored on another ship's shackling prison in the meantime... But then there would be precedent for shipping Hoolay between the Shackling Prison of different ships. Yet in 2.4 I believe it was mentioned that there wasn't precedent because Hoolay was not meant to ever be transferred between ships.
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Date: 2024-09-13 06:52 (UTC)I meant what is the point of killing the leader? Like, the reason succession rules exist is because the leader has to die at some point and there needs to be an agreed upon process how to transition the power in a non-violent manner. If Borisin sets the leader as whomever can kill the previous leader, that's not succession, that's usurping power. Also that's an immensely unstable way to transfer power and the system would encourage would be challengers to try to kill the leader all the time. That's a good way to ensure the civilization doesn't survive.
I mean I get these guys are modeled after wolves (where challengers fight the pack leader and chase off the leader to inherit the pack), but like...wolves are animals and have pretty limited intelligence and their social unit maxes out at around 30 individuals. Borisin are sapient werewolves that live hundreds of years with a complex social structure that involves a slave caste. This shit is not comparable.
Wait what? I thought the Battle of Shuhu happened on Luofu? Like the Quintet gathered at Yubie's statue to prep for the big battle and stuff...
But Jing Yuan said the decision to lock Hoolay in Shackling Prison was the Marshal responding to the events of the Sedition. Unless you mean that Hoolay was stored on another ship's shackling prison in the meantime... But then there would be precedent for shipping Hoolay between the Shackling Prison of different ships. Yet in 2.4 I believe it was mentioned that there wasn't precedent because Hoolay was not meant to ever be transferred between ships.