Ramifications from HFQ- Speculations-Spoilers!

Expert snuggler wrote:If the Church has to commandeer its war supplies it will lose not only good will but respect also. Scurrilous propaganda with caricatures of a Vicar with a begging bowl would make the man in the street angry at the caricature, but it would also stick in his mind. A marketing campaign to people with money would use the talking point "Tithes were bad enough, why are they plundering us too?". They could then make the leap that Charis doesn't plunder when it wins.
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An excellent idea! I'd also suggest showing Clyntahn mugging a group of poor to average people at gunpoint. If Safehold has the equivalent of a robber's mask wearing a convict's uniform, that image would plant the idea that the double tithes are robbery, Clyntahn is robbing the populace, and robbers belong in jail!

I can't visualize how I'd draw it, but I'd want to convey the idea that Charis is prosperous without the double taxation and one-time taxes that the nations subject to the Jihad are being hit with.

A lot of people are grumbling and wondering why God doesn't seem to be on their side if they're fighting for Mother Church. So mentioning the "Church of Clyntahn" on the broadsheets whenever referring to the CoGA would plant the idea in the common man that they aren't fighting for God, they're fighting for Clyntahn, and if a more venal, sadistic, vicious man ever existed on Safehold, he certainly never held the reins of the Inquisition to enforce his will with a reign of terror - and that's what's coming until somebody puts a toad-sticker through the Grand Fornicator.

Phandys, where are you?

Also, whenever an inquisitor appears in a image, make sure he has a knife in his hand to constantly remind people that the tortures of the Punishment hang over the heads of anyone who comes to the attention of the Inquisition for questioning the Jihad, the double tithes, or why Mother Church keeps losing.

One last image - show the bloodied bodies of people tied to racks undergoing the Punishment, with each person labeled as a country: "Dohlar," "Desnair", "Harchong", all the border states, etc., with Clyntahn holding a bloody knife in one hand and the beating heart of the country in which the broadsheet appears in the other, his arms raised in exultation as he tortures all of Safehold that he has under his control...

Aivah ought to hire me to design these things!

>But the leaders, at least Rainbow Waters and his nephew, do seem to be less than impressed with their directions from Zion

They will be even less impressed when their Intendant goes certifiably insane after an OWL remote injects a psychotomimetic drug. (Goodness I'm having nasty thoughts these days).