Hi Veeky Forums. In the homebrew campaign me and my friends were playing we have just beaten the empire...

Hi Veeky Forums. In the homebrew campaign me and my friends were playing we have just beaten the empire, composed of the unification of several neutral aligned races. The emperor was a warmonger who tried to conquer the world by making a pact with the darkness, but was finally defeated by our race (a naturally good one) thanks to our superior tactics.

Now we are making the surrender terms. First, keep in mind that our race has been constantly bullied over the ages because of our refusal to defend ourselves. We were almost wiped out, only managing to survive because of a revolution who gave us permission to fight if it was in self defense. Also that worshiping the darkness almost destroyed the world, especially when the emperor started bombing everything because he was a sore loser.

With this out here are the terms:

>return of the sacred capital
Our original capital who was taken in an ancient war, which still holds power.

>return of every piece of land took from the light over the previous wars
Each war we lost in the past we lost territory, until we were pushed into a island at the sea.

>desmilitarization of the empire and former provinces
The guy who suggested this said that was the only way to ensure our security.

>reparations as aggressors from war
He said that was costumary of war.

>dismantling of the empire into smaller countries
Another PC said that breaking the empire into smaller pieces would ensure they wouldn't become a threat again.

>destruction of all the dark churches and altars of sacrifices
My edict, because of the almost destroyed the world bit.

>destruction of all unholy artefacts and books Complemention of the previous rule.

>outlaw worship of the dark gods
This one I'm not so sure, in fact I have no idea how we would do that. But I think it's important to consider the option.

Are those terms too harsh? Too lenient? Should I add something else? Keep in mind that we are a good race so it should be just and not vengeful.

Not hardcore enough. You're going to be fighting this war over and over again if you don't squash them now.

In the USA, after the Civil War, the KKK rose up to continue the cause of the Confederacy in a terrorist campaign for decades. The war never ended for them, even though the Union tried to play it off like it was nothing, or just banditry. It was a fucking guerrilla insurgency in our own backyard for decades.

In Germany after WWI, wounded pride and bitter resentment at losing a big war when they're supposed to be some kind of badass warrior culture resulted in the rise of the Nazis. The Nazis tapped into that anger and turned Germany into one of the most dangerous, bloodthirsty regimes to ever exist. They pulled the whole world into a SECOND world war out of pure bitter spite and the desire to balm their wounded ego.

All these things you have sound like a great way to have a KKK/Nazi-style militant resurgence kick in within a few years because they're too soft. You're talking about a militaristic collection of races who, historically, have kicked the shit out of yours, and now suddenly lose once. Their wounded pride and bitter resentment will drive them to an extremist war of revenge.

What you should do is purge the Empire of anyone too fanatical, and impose hardcore mental re-education to basically brainwash everyone else into submitting to your agenda. You're in a war not only with a people right now, but with an idea, the idea that the Empire ought to fucking murder your guys. You need to kill both the idea and anyone who believes in it. If you don't, and just trust that people "will just get better", you're going to be sorely mistaken.

Or at the very least, you can have all this as a potential future storyline. That would be cool, seeing how an otherwise good race becomes kinda evil itself in trying to crush an evil ideology.

Hmm... that's actually a point. If we are too soft it will be just an intermission for a new year.

Still, our race is naturally good. Like good in the sense we fought crying about enemy civilian casualties. Maybe demand reeducation classes? Not brainwashing, but a duty like obligatory voting?

What resources are at your disposal? If you've got magic or whatever at your disposal, perhaps there are spells like "change alignment" or something?

Brainwashing, like change aligment are considered one of the ultimate sins so no-no.

But mass murder via war is permissible? You see what I mean? I'd rather brainwash people than kill them.

Hmm. Still, it was determined permissible to fight back in a council meeting only on the context of self defense, and only because they determined if we were wiped out so would our light disappear from the world and thus nobody would be able to protect neutrals from falling into darkness.

This definitely seems like an interesting roleplay scenario. Maybe have some wild-eyed radical NPC suggest these methods in the next session, see how the PCs react.

Nice revision of history faggot.

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