The Decision
Choose Your Side
Both sides are right. Both sides are wrong. England paid for nineteen years. Who do you serve, and why?
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The case for the King is real. The case for the Empress is real. Read both, and then choose. The choice is binding only when you sign the war roll at the gate; everything before that is just thinking.
Two Armies
Pick a Door
Each army’s full case lives one click away. Read whichever moves you first; read the other if you want to be sure.
The King’s Host
House of Blois
Order · Pragmatism · The world as it is
An anointed king cannot be unmade.
Norman lords with land to defend. Church-aligned figures who hold that an anointed king is not unmade by a deathbed report. The merchants and citizens of London who chose Stephen and would not see that choice unmade. The pragmatists who measure rulers by what they hold, not what was promised.
Read the King’s Case →
The Empress’s Army
House of Anjou
Principle · The sworn word · The world as it should be
Three oaths. Sworn on relics. Broken in a month.
Gloucester-allied lords who followed Robert into the war and never recanted. The Scottish contingent under David I, sworn to the Empress by blood and by oath. Reformers and scholars who hold that a vow on relics is binding. Anyone who looks at the man wearing the crown and refuses to call him king.
Read the Empress’s Case →
At the Gate
The Oath Stone Is Where It Becomes Real
Reading is not commitment. The army you serve is the one whose name you sign on the war roll at the gate, and not before. Take your time. Read both pages. The choice is yours until the moment you make it, and binding only after.
Choose well. England will remember.