Imperial Diet & Rules

[_Tristan_]

Guy d'Ollioules stands to adress the Diet.

My Lords, would have have my Lord among you as an hypocrite ? A man who spoke words he didn't believe in ? For if my Lord is ready to serve the Reich faithfully as he did for many years prior to his "rebellion", he would rather say "emancipation", like a child kept too long under his parents' rule, he could never swear to serve the Kaiser loyally, nor could he not question his supremacy.

In the eyes of my Lord, Heinrich has proven unfit to rule the Reich and should stand down from the throne.

If my Lord Lothar asks for a pardon, it is in the fear that soldiers of the Reich be sent against him, thus losing many German lives in a brotherly feud.

Thus stands my Lord.

Now, if you ask what my Lord can do against the Milanese, nothing it seems... Our good Prinz has everything under control, as he did in Hungary...

Anyway, it is not my Lord who is in dire straits at the moment. Provence strives under his rule and may even grow in the next few years. It will never rival the Reich in power nor wealth but it may last longer if the current trend lasts a few years more. At the rate the Reich's nobility dies down, the country will soon be led by schweinsteigers, I think you say... Not that it would make a difference if you ask me...

This last unheard save by those standing quite close to Guy, and they're only a few, the Frenchman being shunned by all save those unable to find seats farther from him. It causes those few to sit still further from him, as if he was a plague-bearer.

I'm sure the Reich can survive without my Lord's intervention. If you do not want his help, just say so and he'll leave all the Milanese to you...