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A Fistful of Warlocks (SPOILERS: FISTFUL OF WARLOCKS)
Aminar:
--- Quote from: forumghost on July 14, 2017, 02:31:33 PM ---After all, He Who Must Not Be Named did great things - Terrible, yes, but great.
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Yes. Kemmler was in this story.
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: LordDresden2 on July 14, 2017, 04:07:36 AM ---Successful rulers and leaders often are not. Sometimes you can't be both nice and successful in politics and war. It's not hard to find examples in history of kings and rulers who were kind, decent...and ineffectual or worse.
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In-universe, Nic even acknowledged at one point that Marcone would have been a successful ruler in times gone by.
Dina:
I agree with that. In fact, he is a successful ruler in a way.
LordDresden2:
--- Quote from: Arjan on July 14, 2017, 05:48:23 AM ---Hitler, Stalin, Napoleon, Tamerlane, Charlemagne, Julius Caesar, ...
Genocidal maniacs all of them and more. Charlemagne has a myth that is far from his true personality as we know it from history.
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Um...no. Those names don't go together. None of them were necessarily nice, but putting Napolean and Caesar in the same category as Hitler and Stalin just doesn't work.
LordDresden2:
--- Quote from: Snark Knight on July 14, 2017, 06:33:45 PM ---In-universe, Nic even acknowledged at one point that Marcone would have been a successful ruler in times gone by.
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Not just successful. By the standards of much of history, King John Marcone would be seen, and remembered, as exceptionally just, fair, and reasonable, not just competent. Which is both a terrible truth of history and a peculiar commentary on Marcone.
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