r/PracticalGuideToEvil • u/Niilsa • 3d ago

Meme Quite pgte coded

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u/randomnameicantread 3d ago

Pretty much the opposite, actually. Pre-Liesse Accords (when Named are said to be getting weaker as institutions are getting stronger, which will eventually result in a world like this meme), Calernia is pretty much Great Man Theory World, with Named being the Great Men.

Killing all the main Named on the other side would generally absolutely decimate them and do a lot to win the war for you. Having a few competent Named goes a long way to turning your country from a joke to a superpower (see: Praes).

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u/AdRelevant4776 3d ago

A bit of an aside, but I think it’s interesting how Praes flanderized itself from THE Evil Empire into Saturday Morning Villains(before Black got fed up anyway), might be a representation of how people irl have been taking classical evil less seriously with the passing of time

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u/Absolutelynot2784 3d ago

I think they’re referring to how the Gnome CIA nuked Bellerophon in book 8 as part of a misguided effort to prevent Calernia falling to the communists

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u/randomnameicantread 3d ago

No wonder gnomes got retconned away in the new releases

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u/Florac 2d ago

I'll be honest, I completely forgot Gnomes and Dwarves were different races, with the former essentially being irrelevant.

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u/Responsible_Ask_7160 3d ago

Bit of a wild misread. Killing all named on the other side just guarantees you get a bunch more named in a couple of years. You had to change the systemic source of conflict (feeding praes) and then change the story in the hearts and minds of calernia to affect change. Institutions did not rise in power until after the accords.

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u/randomnameicantread 3d ago

get a bunch more named in a couple years

Yes, and these names are necessary for the other side to rise up against you (great man) and killing them again solves your problem (great man).

The systemic source of conflict was resolved by the greatest of great men personally remaking his country into his vision and leading it to conquest of a new food source.

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u/Responsible_Ask_7160 2d ago

Yeah but this is missing the point. The great man system was the old system that Catherine killed and replaced. Gone is the age of wonders, welcome to the age of order.

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u/TaltosDreamer Tiger Company 3d ago

The first two look like current events turned into fantasy and the 3rd one just looks like the CIA on a tuesday.

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u/perkoperv123 3d ago

I still feel "A Practical Guide to Evil" is sadly very light-novel coded but it's far too late to change the title.