Thread:MonsterknightMCA/@comment-24664052-20151023062238/@comment-24664052-20151028060452

Katya read the following documents. To sum it up, the following are the situations and decisions he is dealing with:

1. A subversive political group named “The Enlightened Movement” is seeding the roots for uprising against Ivan. The Enlightened Movement is not just limited to Rossiya; it has already instigated uprisings in the Northern Kingdoms against its king, and is making headway in Lescatie’s politics, giving Druella a political contender. While Rossiya is yet to feel the tide of revolution, Ivan wanted to root them out before they can cause trouble. The former head of Oprichniki suspects that some key aides and personnel of Ivan’s regime are actually conniving with the Enlightened Movement, and the Oprichniki are awaiting for the go signal to have them arrested. There is a proposal for enforcement of the total ban against membership in the Enlightened Movement and disregarding the ban is punishable by death.

2. Jahangir, of the Aryan-Mughal Empire, is continuing to sponsor monster extremist and Enlightened Movement incursions into the southern provinces of Uraganistan and Drakunistan. There are suggestions that Ivan should initiate a second Whirlwind War and destroy him for good.

3. There are protests from high-ranking generals of the royal army to disband the Oprichniki, or at least cut down on their powers and expenses. The army generals are also voicing out their grievances at Ivan’s tacit distrust of them, and that they feel that the Oprichniki is being prioritized at the army’s expense. This has caused interservice rivalry between the royal army and the Oprichniki. Ivan, though, won’t do something with it, he thinks that the rivalry between the two factions plays to his advantage.

4. A proposal for the funding of the secret project about weaponizing demonic energy such as DE bombs and DE beacons. There are also clandestine efforts to procure explosives made of holy material, from Order defectors. There is also a biological weapons program about weaponizing Matango spores. The Oprichniki has already sent a proposal for Ivan that they may be used for area denial purposes in an event of conventional warfare and against dissidents in hinterland areas.

5. Proposal for enforcement of total ban against the worship of the Chief God, demonic elementals, Fallen God and Chaos Gods. (Religions of Poseidon, pure Elementalism, Ares and Eros are to be untouched, though) Ivan has two reasons for despising them: the first and official is that “their influence may one day destroy the nation”. The second is that Ivan won’t allow for the people to switch their worship from him to those gods. For 250 years of Vasilievich rule, the family has put up a cult of personality where they put up an image of “the Vasilievich family, as descendants of the hero tsar Berendei, is looking out for the welfare of the people of the Rus”. The second reason isn’t written on the documents, but the key Oprichniki aides know it. And as to the ban, worship of the aforementioned gods is punishable by death.

6. Some adventurer-officials in the Oprichniki has a proposal for an expedition to a mysterious place called Buyan Island where they can gather powerful artifacts or summon a powerful deity to counter Jahangir’s Ashur.

7. Due to the war against Jahangir, the economy has been imploding down. Business sectors have been weakening, and the government is seeking to recoup the loss. It will be difficult to win back the economic advantages Rossiya had enjoyed before the war. There is also a growing rate of capital flight, exacerbating the economic crisis. The nature of Rossiya as an autocratic nation is not helping the matter, as well as the growing security problems. However, the resource-rich province of Yamalia mountains, rich in minerals, lumber and oil, there lies the surefire key to massively recoup the economic losses. There is a problem: a fairy kingdom, elven tribe, dwarven mountain clan and Amazoness tribe situated there might get affected if Rossiya decides to exploit the province’s natural resources. They have been crying for help to Ivan that Yamalia be spared from modernization and being besmirched by industrialists.