@AeriaNyx said in Arx's Elevation Situation:
@Pandora That's not exactly what I meant. I meant more the vassal talks to the liege and is like 'Hey, heads up, I'm interested in working on elevating my House' the liege would be all 'Awesome, we can deal with that, ICly, full disclosure we'd be trying to keep your vassals under our umbrella, this is something we can work out, ICly, yeah?' 'Yeah, for sure, we can see how it plays out.' et fin.
That's not how it works though. According to Apos's lore post the former liege doesn't proactively try and snipe all the vassals out from under the newly elevated house -- how would an elevated house even stake their claim to their new position if all their land was taken from them? That doesn't make sense, and would likely just be seen as trying to prevent the elevation period.
The vassals of the elevated house are simply given the option to remain with the house or swear directly to their liege's liege instead if there's some sort of extraordinarily good reason for doing so, which -- given the extreme disadvantages of being geographically separated from a liege -- is the exception, not the rule. The reassessment of fealty is way more a traditional formality than anything that is expected to actually involve a change every single time.
The only reason vassals came up as such a big deal in the case of Pravus is that their elevation to a brand-spanking-new Great House is conditional on their success in taking new land for the King, who will then lease it to them and expect them to populate it. Their vassals can't hold lands in the mainland Lyceum and the Saffron Chain, it's one or the other, so those specific vassals on the mainland are going to be in a very tight spot when it comes reassessment time. Give up everything and start from scratch, or stay with Velenosa and their traditional holdings.
