Dynasties Online

"Factional struggles."

"Even when everyone agrees on a course of action, those who get sent to complete it will always lead to a factional struggle."

"Whether it is in a neighbourhood, town, city or nation...."

"Factions will always form."

"It is an inevitability."

"They are always over interests or due to conflicts of resource allocation, whether for yourself or someone else."

"A ruler needs to learn to balance factions because the moment that the courtiers or ministers are united and no longer competing with each other for power and profit is usually when they are pointing their swords not at each other...."

"But at the ruler themselves."

Reginald Coulan, creator and head of House Aurellion in Dynasties Online.

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"Father, I believe that we should send an envoy to the Iravian Confederacy to make an alliance or at the very least remain neutral, otherwise we will find our supply lines and rear attacked!"

"If they side with the Chavarians with an attack from both air and land, even the defences of Nartook Fortress may not be able to be held!"