I feel obligated to point out that even in the test game, where we're playing with throw away avatars and deliberately trying to test the rules, no one was willing to break their oath. The King made repeated attempts including offering to let people start their own house and have a well developed city in Marsellies. I would very much like us to reconsider some of the stability rules to prevent oath breaking in that light. In character considerations will be the number one stability enhancement IMHO.

As far as continuing, I'm not sure there's enough commitment to the avatars to make the wrangling over merging houses really impactful. I still favor some sort of secondary land based nobility system, but I think the general consensus was towards the double count system instead.

Oh, and it seems the primary check on the Chancellor's power is going to be impeachment (As it should be, the Chancellorship is meant to be that pwoerful!). If you're in a conflict with the Chancellor you're going to want to be quite sure you have an emergency session call in your hand, and you might want to count votes ahead of time too, or get ready to surrender.