7 Strategies Houses Use to Control Vassals

Get weekly worldbuilding tools, frameworks, and examples straight to your inbox: https://www.thegrainbound.com/ In this video, I break down the seven tools Great Houses use to keep their vassals loyal and why their methods create new vulnerabilities. This is the "sister video" of a previous video, where I introduced the three layered politics system. Watch it here:    • Your Fantasy Politics Need This Middle Layer   #FantasyWorldbuilding #FantasyPolitics #Worldbuilding #FantasyWriting #Storytelling #Vassals #GreatHouses #LoyaltySystems #PoliticalFantasy Chapters: 0:00 Introducing the concept 0:38 Often made mistakes 0:53 Use this approach to loyalty and understanding the maintenance game 1:14 Seven mechanisms used to build loyalty 4:51 Stacking the loyalty mechanisms 5:06 Example of loyalty mechanisms in use 6:01 Break the loyalty 7:24 Multiple vassal problem 7:54 The three outcomes when loyalty maintenance fails 8:14 Step-by-step — applying this system to your world 9:11 My request to you!