Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-29773086-20190711235537/@comment-32705314-20190712095647

I totally agree. I think at the very least you should be able to partially swear into service with a faction that is allied to yours. Eg. I am a Lord of Gondor, sworn into Gondor’s service that wishes to support the Rangers, so I partially swear into service with the Rangers to help them fight Angmar and Gundabad while still officially being a Lord of Gondor and not of Arnor or whatever.

Another reasonable idea is dual-pledging within factions that are likely to encourage inter-factional pledging. For example I am someone who enters the service of the Woodland Realm, it seems reasonable that I should also be able to enter the service of Lothlórien and hold prestigious titles with both while simultaneously doing tasks for both factions. After all they both have the same enemy in the same neighbourhood.

Again I can suggest another one; Dale and Erebor. We know almost certainly that Dale and Erebor collaborated with each other, and it seems reasonable that a Dwarf-hero of Erebor be able to enter the service of the King of Dale alongside the King under the Mountain to defeat the threat from the Easterlings, and vice versa.

Lastly one more example; High Elves and Rangers. It’s highly reasonable to assume that an Elf-lord in Elrond’s service would be able to enter service of the Rangers to help lead a join effort against Angmar in the north, and similarly a Captain of the Dúnedain would reasonable be able to enter Elrond’s service.

When looking at factional relations and pledges, it seems most reasonable to me that factions with common neighbour threats (Rivendell and Rangers, Angmar)(Dale and Erebor, Easterlings)(Lothlórien and Woodland Realm, Dol Guldur) etc. would allow for individuals to pledge service to both factions.

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