Monday 17 August 2015

King Rician The Great



As monarchs went, he wasn’t a noble, kind ruler of the people. Instead, he was greedy, uncaring, selfish. He imposed levies and taxes on whatever he could think of, and spent most of the money on fine food, finer alcohol and cheap women.

In any other time and place, he’d have been overthrown quicker than you can say ‘people’s democracy’, but oddly enough he was tolerated since he befriended all nearby rulers with his parties.

At the time, he was just… whatever.

But historically, he’s the greatest ruler ever.

Because he was clever enough to pay the record keepers well.

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