Politics and Religion in Korvosa (spoilers)


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Since this has come up in another thread I wanted to talk about it but I didn’t want to completely Threadjack.

No government (that wasn’t a theocracy) worth it bureaucracy would let a religion get involved in the succession of the throne with Resurrections. Could you imagine the number of civil wars (or assassinations/ruinations of Priest capable of brining kings back) that would happen if an heir had to wait until a king died of a non-rezable means of death? There’s going to be exceptions but in general a government is not going to want to give a religion the power to put a ruler BACK on the throne. Death is a natural part of life kings die, new kings come around.

As for religions getting involved in law enforcement… if a faith isn’t already tied into the policing force it’d be an admission of failure for detectives (or whatever) to approach a church and ask for a locate person/object. And if the faith offers, just picture those scenes when the FBI becomes involved in a crime and how the local PD is resentful on those coming into their territory and telling them how to do things. The phrase “What, you don’t think I can do my job?” comes to mind.

It’s not a faiths job to use divine intervention to make things easier for people. Aside from exceptions (“we’ve got a missing child with two hours to live”) most faiths will tell people to do things on their own. Otherwise EVERYONE would be pestering a temple for quick fixes. Most faiths (especially those that would have temples in a major city) want people to be independent, just independent according to their doctrine.

Spoiler:
As for Korvosa, the king got sick and died, it happens, people are rioting during the transition, social unease happens. The Queen is unpopular, the King wasn’t exactly an America Idol winner either. Even if a faith felt the King should be raised, they’d go to the Queen who would say something like: “Thank you for your offer, it’s very generous, but the last thing my husband said to me was that he’d earned his rest and would rather not be brought back, so no thank you.” End of story.

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