Final Card : L. L. Thomsen : 9781912648108 : 06 Sep 2018 : From The Final Card... "Her Ladyship is rumoured to be well-loved, you know; the realm would be in uproar. Is one princess really worth that much to you?" "Oh invaluable," he replied lightly, "Though not for the reasons you'd think. Indeed the fact that she is popular is but a helpful coincidence that will see me solidify the link between old and new. The people will like that because the people like her and what she represents. And as for war...? Well, wars come and go - don't they? Some bloody, some of paper and pen and words, some more subtle. You might be uneducated in these matters, but one could argue that we are already at war: at war with the Senate; at war with these modern traditions that we try to hold dear, yet secretly know to be worth nothing as it is but a set of shambles upheld to gloss over what goes on behind those damned Etruian gossamer curtains! The bribes, the corruption, the underhanded distribution of po