🎯 Ambitions and Goals -

At the start of the day in Babayaga, every noble, House Player, is aligned either with the Loyalist Covenant or the Volchenks Rebels. Every House has, by the start of the game, thrown their lot in with, and signed the various declarations that have led to this brewing conflict. With the arrival of the Babayaga things have become more...malleable.

As is so often the case, every member of the aristocracy is bound by certain expectations and the power of primogeniture is absolute. Beyond this, each noble has a responsibility to their House and family, their lands, but ultimately to themselves and their own advancement.

Before the day, each Player and House will have received their briefings on where their House sits ideologically, and how the realities of their particular position, and holdings may have led them to side with the alliance which they have chosen. Some are fiercely loyal, others driven by opportunism. What is universally true is that every House has arrived in their position, believing that their coalition has the best chance of victory and are determined to come out of this in a position of greater influence or power.

With the revelation from the Babayaga that another, third, clamant to the throne exists; Not only will some Houses begin to reevaluate those positions, but indeed question: "If the true heir may be anyone in the aristocracy, then who is best positioned to take advantage of that information?"

Not to put too fine a point on it, but if the Baba is to be believed and any one Player could prove to be the erstwhile ‘True Heir.’ Their emergence would upset the two sided balance of power between the existing factions significantly. Players are encouraged to think about how to prepare for and act on this information. Perhaps your House chooses to further ingratiate itself to the Babayaga, or perhaps these are lies designed to weaken both sides. Maybe she has a more complex ulterior motive, or maybe none at all. At any rate, the time for that reveal grows ever closer and it may be worth a Player using that time to figure out who their House’s true allies and enemies are.

Players and Houses are only as strong as the coalitions which they can build, and in this new reality those treaties may have to be redrawn, and fast.