Incident Report, Westcrown, 3 Sarenith 4714

Timeline

Approximately Gozran 4710 - Person A and Person B discuss plans for governing post-Asmodean Cheliax, and agree on a shared commitment to a constitutional monarch restrained by a written constitution. Such plans being at the time speculative, they did not include discussion of who would write the constitution, when it would be written, or what would constitute a mutually acceptable timeline for constitution development.
Neth 4711 - Person G is empowered by Iomedae in the midst of the rebellion of the population of Pezzack against Asmodean rule. The Church did not learn of Person G’s selection at this time, nor did Person G have access to any accounts of Iomedaen theology beyond that Iomedae stood opposed to Hell and supportive of the people of Pezzack in rebelling. 

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approximately 22:15, 3 Sarenith: Person K at this time began efforts to identify someone with the authority to make a lawful arrest of Person G, anticipating that she was in serious and immediate danger and that himself acting to protect her from it eg by removing her from the city would give the appearance of interfering in the processes of justice in Cheliax.

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8 Sarenith, afternoon - At a public trial, Person G was acquitted of incitement to murder and of wrongful death in connection with the riots, and agreed to leave Cheliax for religious education in Lastwall. 

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Involved Responsible Parties

Person A, an archmage

Person B, reigning monarch of Cheliax

Person C, an archmage

Person D, an inquisitor of Abadar and Archduke of the Longmarch

Person E, a paladin of Iomedae and Lord High Marshall of the Order of the Glorious Reclamation

Person F, a paladin of Iomedae and captain in the armies of Lastwall (retired)

Person G, a cleric of Iomedae, not a member of the Church

Person H, a cleric of Iomedae, not a member of the Church

Person I, a cleric of Iomedae

Persons J1 and J2, lay priests of Iomedae

Person K, an eighth-circle wizard and agent of Lastwall

Person L, a paladin of Iomedae and Supreme Elect of Andoran

Person M, Archduke of Menador

Persons M1-M15, persons residing with, owing fealty to, and under the command of the Archduke of Menador

Other Involved Parties

Person T, a writer

Person U, the leader of an adventuring party.

Person V, Archduke of the Heartlands

Person W1 and W2, delegates consulted by Person G in preparation for her speech

Person X, Archduke of Ravounel 

Recommendations To Her Majesty Aspexia III, Queen of Cheliax:

On conscription for the purposes of the Constitutional Convention:

The conscription of Her Majesty’s subjects for work in drafting laws and constitutions should follow best practices for conscription generally, in particular: the duration of said conscription should be known in advance and publicized, and conscription should not exceed the announced duration; there should exist an avenue of appeal for conscripts to plead hardship or to request reassignment to other duties on grounds of conscience¹; pregnant women should not be conscripted, nor women with a child still nursing²; and conscripted persons should be informed of the supervising authority to whom they answer, the set of persons authorized to give them orders, the scope of orders they are obliged to obey, the laws and expectations of the jurisdiction to which they are relocated in any case where those different from the laws and expectations of their jurisdiction of origin, the set of authorities to which they can report violations of the law, and the manner in which they will be tried and sentenced should they violate the law. In the event that they are killed in action or executed, their families should be promptly notified, and pensioned unless the forfeiture of their pension was a part of their sentence. 

It is recommended in Lastwall that conscripts witness the trial and execution of members of their unit to avoid confusion about how the law operates and under which circumstances they will themselves be put to death, and it is recommended that trials of conscripts be carried out by a judge trained in explaining the law and its processes, and which elements of a situation were operative in his decision, to that audience. 

It is not believed that following these recommendations would have prevented or substantially mitigated the incident, as only a few of the deaths in the incident are believed to have been brought about by conscripts.

On the Convention’s impact on Westcrown:

Interviews with people on the streets of Westcrown reveal a wide range of attitudes about the convention, but there are some points of consensus: as many of the nobles arrived with substantial forces under their command, friction between these forces and the locals have been considerable. A number of people alleged misconduct by delegates, or by people impersonating delegates, which is apparently commonplace and likely ought to be illegal. Alleged misconduct generally took the form of intimidation, theft by intimidation, rape by intimidation, the use of magic in exploitative and disruptive ways, and drunken and reckless misconduct.

 This report recommends informing delegates that they are not above the law (see ‘best practices for conscription’). This report recommends impressing on those delegates who brought large private security forces that they will be held accountable for those forces’ conduct. This report recommends creating better avenue for the reporting of crimes where the reporter fears retaliation, including potentially via partnerships with more-trusted institutions such as Good churches.³

It is assessed that following these recommendations would likely have been insufficient to prevent the incident but might have done so and might have mitigated its harms, in that tensions in Westcrown, resentment of the visiting nobility, rumors about the visiting nobility, and suspicion of the Convention were persistently underestimated in security planning.

On the freedom of the pen:

Should Cheliax continue in its policy of permitting the mass publication of unvetted anonymous political and religious literature, the risks of such a policy may be mitigated by having observers in the streets to identify publications of a particularly inflammatory nature, by tracking and identifying radical pamphlet authors to determine whether they are in the service of Cheliax’s enemies and particularly of powers of Hell, and by creating a system by which literature that is authorized, accurate, or represents the stance of a particular institution may distinguish itself to readers. 

Also recommended are investigating the ultimate aims and capabilities of pamphlet-writing liches, funding valuable and accurate writings that they may compete with unreasonable ones, and making clearer the bounds of the bar on proselytization for infernal powers, as pamphlet writers seem to be endeavoring to learn by experimentation what commentary is permissible and while the penalties for incitement are lenient in the absence of further incident and permit this experimental learning, the penalties on proselytization are not (nor does this report recommend they be made more lenient).

Cheliax may instead desire to consider other policies, of which some candidates are 1) banning pamphlet writing by liches and other entities not subjects of Her Majesty 2) banning the publication of unvetted anonymous political and religious literature, in favor of requiring works be at least one of vetted or attributed  3) requiring that published literature be, to the best knowledge of the writers, true, 4) requiring that published literature which claims to speak for or represent the views of an institution or authority permit that institution or authority a response or clarification which must be published alongside the original literature 5) instituting a censorship board instructed to permit most political and religious commentary or 6) requiring some kind of delay on mass publication of unvetted anonymous political and religious literature. 

Many of these proposals would preserve most of the social and political benefits of the so-called ‘freedom of the pen’, while substantially decreasing the ease with which dangerously mistaken and misleading information circulates to the detriment of Her Majesty’s subjects and making coordinated action against the state more difficult.

It is assessed that following these recommendations would have prevented the incident, though it is noted that the Person-T-authored publication which most directly incited the incident (see Appendix A) was illegal under existing Chelish laws; prevention would have required either more clarity about the legality and likely consequences of further distributing the publication⁴, more enforcement of existing law, faster and more responsive surveillance of the city, or a law or policy preventing the distribution of Person G’s initial speech which inspired Person T’s (or requiring its distribution with attached commentary.)

On coordination with allied churches: 

The people of Cheliax having suffered greatly for the lack of adequate religious education and religious services, Her Majesty may wish to consider proactive outreach to the organized churches whose presence would be particularly welcome in Westcrown, as she knows better than church leadership in foreign countries which needs of her people are greatest and which forms of support and investment will be most welcome.

The engagement of the soldiers of the Glorious Reclamation in Westcrown to suppress riots carries significant costs elsewhere in Cheliax, where they are employed in providing essential services, adjudicating legal disputes, and advising local authorities in Iomedaen theology and practices and in the law of Cheliax. Her Majesty may wish to prioritize reform of the Chelish army to the point where it is adequate to keep order in Her Majesty’s cities, even if only with Glorious Reclamation officers and extensive magical supervision⁵. Should these reforms result in expanded Chelish capacity at the Worldwound, they would free up substantial resources among Her Majesty’s allies in Lastwall and Mendev, and Her Majesty’s allies in Lastwall would be eager to contribute to reform efforts were such an ultimate result negotiated. 

It is assessed that following these recommendations would likely have prevented the incident. See recommendations for the leadership of the Church in Westcrown and recommendations for the Precentors Marshal of Lastwall re: resource allocation to the Church in Westcrown.

On abolition: 

The decision to end halfling slavery by a republican vote should be reviewed with a mind to the questions: had the convention concluded that slavery ought to remain permitted as it was in Old Cheliax, would the convention have been superceded? Is the decision to abolish slavery lent that much legitimacy by occurring by the vote of a hand-selected body, compared to the legitimacy it would have from having being announced eighteen months earlier with the emphatic support of the Good churches and the appointed nobility? What harms resulted from the ongoing conditions of slavery and from the uncertainty about the legal status of slavery over the last eighteen months? Further discussion is included in the recommendations section for the Supreme Elect of Andoran.

Banning the export of slaves pending the vote of the convention on abolition would have had a much smaller economic impact on Cheliax than closing the ports entirely, as well as reducing the impression among the citizenry of Westcrown that large-scale political purges there are no way to flee are imminent⁶. This policy is recommended despite the acknowledged cost that it would have been taken as crown influence on the abolition vote; the convention having already voted to declare slavery an Asmodean institution, the costs to the convention’s perceived legitimacy from the crown acknowledging the same seem lessened, and in any event the port closures were by many people correctly interpreted as precisely such an indication of the stance of the crown.

The port closures were announced as being a response to the heavy rains, but almost no one interviewed in Westcrown understood that to be the justification for them. It is recommended that the justifications for government decisions be true, when they are given, and that policies be announced without justification if there are sufficient disadvantages to giving the true explanation. To do otherwise encourages the habit of doubt in the government and cynicism about its stated justifications for its actions.

It is not our assessment that following these recommendations would have prevented this incident, but they would have substantially mitigated the harms.

On oversight of the convention:

Her Majesty should contemplate having staff present at the convention, separate from those of the Archmage Cotonnet, with a mandate to intervene in unlawful conduct on the convention floor or at least testify to the unlawfulness of the conduct and describe the circumstances under which the speaker can expect to face criminal charges. 

Attendees of the convention express a range of views about whether they can expect merely a reprimand and incapacitation by the Archmage or an arrest in cases including proselytization for infernal powers, challenging fellow delegates to a duel or drawing weapons on them, and other forms of prohibited conduct that have happened already in the first days of the convention. 

Many attendees of the convention express the conviction they will be put to death if they comment, participate or vote in a manner the Queen finds displeasing; the presence of observers who speak for the Queen might worsen this, or might mitigate it to the extent they can be observed to be exclusively putting delegates to death with good reason.

These recommendations are not expected to have prevented the incident, as had staff of Her Majesty been present at the convention they would not have arrested Person G for her speech. These recommendations might have provided clarity on the legality of Person G’s speech in the aftermath of the incident.

1: Are there warranted objections to participating in law writing on grounds of conscience? None occur to the author, but if all such appeals are found unwarranted, so be it; in the absence of any process by which legitimate objections could be heard, none will be found, and this practice never having been observed in the past it is not obvious the range of objections that might be felt.

2: The general recommendation against conscripting pregnant women is of course written in the context of military service, where it is self-evident. We make the recommendation regardless because 1) writing a constitution in Westcrown is not obviously less dangerous than service as a conscript in Lastwall, with twelve delegates dead so far 2) other humane considerations beyond safety also inveigh against conscription of pregnant women, such as the common desire of expecting mothers to go through childbirth in a safe and familiar location, the desire to use a trusted midwife or priest for assistance in childbirth, and the desire to recover from childbirth and form bonds with a newborn child without concomitant obligations. Conscripts for the convention are permitted to bring a few people with them, but for many reasons (fear of the state, competing obligations on a midwife or priest's part, inability to find trustworthy childcare in an unfamiliar city, awareness that babies rarely survive cities) many of them may not have exercised this right in a way that protected their family.

If a child is to be breastfed by her mother and not a hired nurse the relationship with the mother may not be interrupted in the first weeks after birth, and in a case where the mother cannot afford a hired nurse such interruption condemns her child to death. Deprioritizing relationships between mothers and children in favor of obliging those mothers in service to the Crown seems particularly ill-advised in Cheliax’s present state, where conceptions of the obligations of family have been greatly damaged by Asmodean influence. 

3: Trust in Good churches is also extraordinarily low in Cheliax, but interviews with citizens of Westcrown found some who believed that paladins would credibly intervene on their behalf in crimes that they were not willing to tell the watch about. Queen Aspexia III’s copy of this report will include reported crimes whose reporters did not request confidentiality, though many reporters did request it.

4: For example, the pamphlet was available to take in prominent public cafes and bookstores within the city, and the proprietors of these institutions asserted that they had not believed themselves to have any duty to check the legality of materials brought to their cafes and bookstores. A subsequent decree has clarified this.

5: Lastwall ensures the reliability of persons in trusted positions with the spell Mark of Justice. If agents of the law were so marked in Westcrown at a rate of 3 per day, and subsequently betrayed their vows only infrequently, then in the last eighteen months 1500 men could have been so marked and could now be trivially supervised. A Mark also achieves many of the benefits of a Geas while having fewer of the negative associations of mind-control magic and with its conditions more straightforward to verify as a paladin placed it. 

6: This is not, in candid interviews, a majority opinion among the people of Westcrown but it is reasonably commonplace, and likely also held by many who would not voice it to an interviewer. 

(The report is distributed to responsible parties within the Church, to the Archmage, to the two Archdukes involved, and to the Queen, with any of them entitled to request redactions from the fully-public version. She may understand full well how incident reports work but De Luna is not sure whether the Queen is going to be happy about his publicly releasing a report calling her a liar about the port closures.)

She must be doing something right. Almost none of these are about inadequate delegation!

Recommendations To the Archmage Elie Cotonnet:

The Archmage should have a larger dedicated staff in support of his labors on the Constitutional Convention, separate from his research staff and from Archmage Naima’s logistics staff, with responsibilities including:

- Providing physical security to delegates who request it and who are in credible fear for their persons or the safety of their associates
- Providing legal advice to delegates on request and providing review of delegates’ speeches and proposals for the purpose of informing them if their speeches are permitted by law and by the rules of the convention so far established, as well as whether the speeches and proposals will fulfill the delegates’ own aims and purposes
- Supporting the Archmage in Convention-related logistical planning, summarizing for the Archmage in a timely manner the state of discussion of the convention on the streets of Westcrown, and advising the Archmage of any ways in which the rules of the convention have been frequently misunderstood and may be better communicated.

The Archmage should consider hosting the convention in a secure location or taking steps to mitigate the spread of statements made at the convention to the city of Westcrown and the country at large, as the fear of this both materially reduces the ability of delegates to speak openly at the convention and magnifies the risks of ill-advised remarks by delegates, as well as making some law and policymaking, such as the abolition of slavery in Cheliax, much more complicated. In the absence of the resources to provide security against external observation or leaks, the Archmage should consider cloaking the delegates to the convention in anonymity, for example with the spell Veil, that their speech is not as readily attributed to them, and the Archmage should consider secret ballots, to mitigate the widespread vote-purchasing and bribery that is affecting the dynamics of the convention.

It is believed that adherence to this recommendation would have averted the primary incident.

The Archmage should consider measures to assure delegates of their physical security on an ongoing basis, and should clarify those circumstances under which delegates have been put to death or refused resurrection so that misunderstandings about those circumstances do not inspire fear of participating in the convention. If the Archmage suspects that a delegate will be in elevated personal danger, he should consider assigning that delegate security, hired if necessary from allied countries such as Andoran and Osirion. 

It is believed that adherence to this recommendation would not have averted the primary incident, but would have substantially mitigated it by reducing the deaths of delegates in violence the evening of 3 Sarenith.

The Archmage should consider consulting the Church of Abadar for resurrection insurance for all delegates and their families and then adopting those recommendations which the Church holds would decrease the costs of this resurrection insurance.

The Archmage should clarify what will be done to conscripted delegates who desert their duties, as conscripted delegates presently provide a remarkably wide-ranging set of accounts of what they believe will be done to them.¹

The Archmage should clarify which persons he intends to resurrect if they are killed in convention-related events. 

The Archmage should clarify that the laws of Cheliax apply on the convention floor, as delegates presently provide a remarkably wide-ranging set of accounts of whether they believe the laws of Cheliax to apply on the convention floor.

The Archmage should consider what further assistance in Cheliax he would desire from his allies - for example, whether he would like more dedicated staff, more trustworthy soldiers, more advisors to the delegates, more investment in the city of Westcrown - and discuss with them what changes in material conditions would make that possible (see recommendations for the Supreme Elect of Andoran and for the Precentors Martial of Lastwall).

The Archmage should discuss with his allies under what circumstances he would decide to call a halt to the Constitutional Convention without its having concluded its business, and about transition plans for Cheliax in the event that the convention fails to produce a satisfactory constitution. 

Duplicated from recommendations to Her Majesty Aspexia III of Cheliax: The conscription of Chelish citizens for work in drafting laws and constitutions should follow best practices for conscription generally, in particular: the duration of said conscription should be known in advance and publicized, and conscription should not exceed the announced duration; there should exist an avenue of appeal for conscripts to plead hardship or to request reassignment to other duties on grounds of conscience;  pregnant women should not be conscripted, nor women with a child still nursing; and conscripted persons should be informed of the supervising authority to whom they answer, the set of persons authorized to give them orders, the scope of orders they are obliged to obey, the laws and expectations of the jurisdiction to which they are relocated in any case where those different from the laws and expectations of their jurisdiction of origin, the set of authorities to which they can report violations of the law, and the manner in which they will be tried and sentenced should they violate the law. In the event that they are killed in action or executed, their families should be promptly notified, and pensioned unless the forfeiture of their pension was a part of their sentence. 

It is recommended in Lastwall that conscripts witness the trial and execution of members of their unit to avoid confusion about how the law operates and under which circumstances they will themselves be put to death, and it is recommended that trials of conscripts be carried out by a judge trained in explaining the law and its processes, and which elements of a situation were operative in his decision, to that audience. 

It is not believed that following these recommendations would have prevented or substantially mitigated the incident, as only a few of the deaths in the incident were brought about by conscripts.

1: See Appendix D for interviews with delegates. Some sortition delegates asserted that they would surely be put to death if they fled the convention, some that they would be returned to the convention, some that they would be tortured as an example to the others, and some that this was permitted with no consequences though they would certainly be eaten on the roads.

To the Lord High Marshal of the Order of the Glorious Reclamation:

The Lord High Marshal should identify nine wise, well-catechized, politically sensible men who intend to remain in Cheliax and obey its new constitution, appoint them to serve as the Church’s representatives to the Constitutional Convention and allocate them the resources for a shared staff assisting them in their tasks.

The Order of the Glorious Reclamation should have full-time staff dedicated to political engagement with allies, strategic partners, and other powerful people in Cheliax, or should be coordinating closely with another part of the Church which has full-time staff dedicated to this. Responsibilities should include advising allies and strategic partners about the interests of the Church, identifying opportunities for critical resource shortages within the Church to be solved by allies and strategic partners in exchange for support in forms less costly to the Church, identifying misunderstandings about the priorities and interests of the Church among its allies and strategic partners, and generating a long-term plan for the Church’s obligations, commitments, and entitlements inside Cheliax.

The Order of the Glorious Reclamation should be mindful that its current staffing is primarily a product of reprioritization decisions made in the opening days of the Four Day War, on the assumption that the war would be notably longer and would be for its duration the highest priority of the Church, and that the best allocation of resources within the Church during the pacification and repair of Cheliax is likely different than the best allocation of resources within the Church for the conquest of Cheliax. In particular:

The Lord High Marshal should identify and train a replacement responsible for day to day command and operations of the Glorious Reclamation and day to day command and operations of the county of Llado, in order to prioritize those of his obligations where he cannot be substituted, those being the Crusade for Razmiran, rapid response to serious threats within a Teleport’s range of Cheliax, and political operations in Westcrown for which he possesses unique credibility and personal relationships as a consequence of his past accomplishments, as well as unique context on the Church’s objectives. He should consider asking the Archmage Cotonnet if he may train a replacement in the Archmage’s time-accelerated demiplane.

The Lord High Marshal identified as a barrier to effective time use on political operations in Westcrown that he spends much of his time navigating proposals of marriage from Cheliax’s nobility. With it understood that it should rarely and sparingly be recommended that a person take on new vows, any matter consuming this much of the Lord High Marshal’s time is a matter of importance. He should either renew his vow of celibacy or pick a wife who will be an asset to him in his political objectives in Cheliax.

De Luna is pretty sure that it would be, under the circumstances, downright cruel to leave a two hundred page report on Alexaera's desk, so he comes by while the man is in Vigil to hand it to him in person. The recommendations for the Reclamation have all been diligently compressed to fit on a single page even though he had to leave out several footnotes he was fond of; that page is on top.

He is in fact very busy so he appreciates getting his recommendations in one page at the top, in case there's anything immediately actionable - Filling the church's Convention seats, very sensible, but he thought the Reclamation knights weren't eligible? Presumably there's some explanation in the report. More and better delegation of Reclamation business, of course - he's started on that one already. And... get married or return to his vow of celibacy? He was not expecting to see that in an incident report recommendation. Not... that it's wrong, is it? He'll give it some more thought during the convention's lunch hour today, but Alexandre is probably right.

The man's time use survey, from 7 Sarenith, featured four hours of 'then I tried to do politics but had to dodge women trying to marry me'. He wouldn't put it in a recommendation to someone junior, but - really.

To the Church of Iomedae in Westcrown:

The Church in Westcrown does not have the resources to offer individual catechesis and confession to the people of Westcrown. Unless there are major resource reallocations, the Church should not attempt to offer those services, except to some very limited degree in order to inform the priests of the Church in Westcrown of the mindset, concerns, and needs of the population in Westcrown.

Should the Church’s resources be expanded substantially, it should still alter its personnel utilization with respect to individual catechesis. The Church in Westcrown spends much of its time and energy answering recurring very basic confusions about the faith, to the extent that an ordinary church organizational model where there are trained lay priests who can offer pastoral care and where everyone without such certification is asked not to speculate on theological questions in their capacity as an employee of the Church, is not tenable. The Church in Westcrown should apply to the Church for a special exception to those policies. (No systematic process to grant such a procedural exception exists; see recommendations to the Church).  

The exception should allow the Church in Westcrown to train some laypeople to answer very basic questions about the teachings of Iomedae, such as ‘is murder wrong’, ‘is rape wrong’, ‘is abandoning your children wrong’, ‘does Iomedae want us to commit violent crimes in Her name in Westcrown right now’ and ‘is this pamphlet the official teachings of the Church of Iomedae’. They should be certified only to answer a specific set of questions and should refer other questions to a qualified priest. As there are presently no resources to have qualified priests meet with individual petitioners on a regular basis, there should be a way for questions to be submitted in writing and addressed during sermons if they are common. An example application for this exception is included as Appendix F, to save time for the Church in Westcrown in light of the recurring theme of these recommendations that it is overstretched.

These recommendations would likely not have averted the primary incident, as the primary incident developed very rapidly, but are expected to avert many similar incidents by ensuring Church staff is not too overstretched to respond to politically sensitive and time sensitive concerns.

When contacting people who are not in the Church hierarchy, and especially people not in the Church hierarchy who are accustomed to the role the Church of Asmodeus played in Cheliax, extraordinary care should taken to avoid recommendations that can be interpreted as orders, and the usual recommendations to avoid this considered insufficient. It may be wise to include an explicit explanation that the Church considers it unlawful to convey orders to anyone who has not taken vows to the Church, and that it would be detrimental to the Church for the recommendations within to be so interpreted. 

This recommendation would likely not have averted the primary incident.

The Church in Westcrown ought to have full-time staff dedicated to political engagement with allies, strategic partners, and other powerful people in Cheliax, or should be coordinating closely with another part of the Church which has full-time staff dedicated to this. This has not been identified as an error by the existing staff of the Church in Westcrown, whose responsibilities were not scoped for this.

This recommendation would have averted the primary incident.

Supplemental:

- With respect to footnote 1, in which the author of the incident report notes that he sees no reason to object to conscription for lawmaking on grounds of conscience, the author of this addendum wishes to register a response.

- - (a): Legislation is a way to have extremely large impacts on the world. The practice of every country is to leave this to the work of persons suspected to have unusually good judgement, whether by birth, training, selection or religious choice. A person who believes he is worse than the typical legislator and desires to do good for the country may therefore wish to decline the opportunity in exchange for someone possessed of sounder judgement.

- - (b): Participation in a constitutional convention involves many acts which are often held to be Evil, such as ordering the arrest of others on charges of treason (see the history of Galt for more information) in which refusal risks death, often combined with political defeat. Many individuals have reasons of conscience to desire to avoid being pressed by commandments to do evil.

- - (c): The impact of the decision is also an impact on the wielder's soul. While it is not ethical to place your own afterlife desires over those of others, there are cases (such as a paladin or priest) where avoiding alignment shifts likely to follow from legislation may be strategically indicated.

- With respect to conscription policies, individuals may have urgent needs that cannot be substituted for without being pregnant women or new mothers. For instance, adventurers engaged in monster-hunting may be on government tax rolls and therefore available for sortition, but not be listed as irreplaceable personnel with many lives depending on them. The supplemental therefore recommends that 'pleading hardship' is too limited a term, and 'pleading greater necessity' would be more appropriate.