More Friends, More Benefits
So you're playing a game that for whatever reason rewards you for pursuing a romantic partner. All well and good: increasing Relationship Values that have beneficial effects, some game-mechanical in nature, others less so, has a long and time-honored place in games about relationships.
But what happens if you get these bonuses for seducing everyone who's even mildly interested in you, rather than developing a single intense relationship?
In these games, the ultimate path to power involves rolling every relationship up into a massive
Foreign Ruling Class
A Foreign Ruling Class is a ruling class whose culture, language and/or religion are different from those of the populations they rule. Simply put, it is the other end of Ethnic Menial Labor. Different from a military occupation since this situation lasts in peacetime too.
This situation can rise as a result of the conquest of a population by another; a protagonist might be moved to overthrow this oppression. Another cause might be the acculturation of the local ruling class by another culture, perceived as more prestigious.
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166. Part 1: Afraid Not October 03, 2018
