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An idea which I'd developed maybe a year before this campaign, be it in normal prose fiction, comics, or TTRPG writing was to have one of the focal points of a story be a member of the landed aristocracy who lavishly patronizes the Sciences, while knowing next to nothing about them themselves. I decided that here was where I would use the idea.
The drawing on the bottom is of the Domus Agrippa, the main center of the patrician aristocracy within Polis Agrippa. It's drawn as a Minoan palace, but which has, over the past few decades, received various refurbishments to enhance its scientific use, namely the observatory on the highest terrace, modeled off of one in India, the various observation towers around, the greenhouse inspired, but not directly modeled, off of the Orangerie in Versailles, and the giant orrery in the central terrace.
The drawings above are of the various scientist-courtiers present at the palace, including the aged, painted patron of the Gens Agrippa itself, his chronically ill adult daughter who, instead of marrying, has spent her life applying the new developments in Calculus to measuring and calculating the routine movements of planets and stars, and a court botanist, attired like a druid or an ornamental hermit, who looks almost exactly like Renaldo Malpractice.
After multiple years, I've finally developed the *exact* look of the clothes of Hypermarinos's aristocracy, that being the hairstyle visible here, banged in the front, netted at the top, and tied into three braids in the back, and the lavish use of the color purple, which I had described as the classes privileges in my notes as early as 2021. I've decided that the Serene Republic of Hypermarinos is a fundamentally hypocritical, unintuitive society, being one in which the patrician aristocracy, having the least power and influence of any landed class in the Unmaïre region, occupy the largest section of the public imagination through the long list of elaborate rituals and customs surrounding them (legal differences of dress, prohibition from marrying commoners, overrepresentation in the military and elected positions, high society banquets and feudal rivalries, and so on and so forth). Like with Europe in the 19th century, they're effectively capitalist bourgeoisie who are distinguished only by titles and idiosyncratic last names.

Description
An idea which I'd developed maybe a year before this campaign, be it in normal prose fiction, comics, or TTRPG writing was to have one of the focal points of a story be a member of the landed aristocracy who lavishly patronizes the Sciences, while knowing next to nothing about them themselves. I decided that here was where I would use the idea.
The drawing on the bottom is of the Domus Agrippa, the main center of the patrician aristocracy within Polis Agrippa. It's drawn as a Minoan palace, but which has, over the past few decades, received various refurbishments to enhance its scientific use, namely the observatory on the highest terrace, modeled off of one in India, the various observation towers around, the greenhouse inspired, but not directly modeled, off of the Orangerie in Versailles, and the giant orrery in the central terrace.
The drawings above are of the various scientist-courtiers present at the palace, including the aged, painted patron of the Gens Agrippa itself, his chronically ill adult daughter who, instead of marrying, has spent her life applying the new developments in Calculus to measuring and calculating the routine movements of planets and stars, and a court botanist, attired like a druid or an ornamental hermit, who looks almost exactly like Renaldo Malpractice.
After multiple years, I've finally developed the *exact* look of the clothes of Hypermarinos's aristocracy, that being the hairstyle visible here, banged in the front, netted at the top, and tied into three braids in the back, and the lavish use of the color purple, which I had described as the classes privileges in my notes as early as 2021. I've decided that the Serene Republic of Hypermarinos is a fundamentally hypocritical, unintuitive society, being one in which the patrician aristocracy, having the least power and influence of any landed class in the Unmaïre region, occupy the largest section of the public imagination through the long list of elaborate rituals and customs surrounding them (legal differences of dress, prohibition from marrying commoners, overrepresentation in the military and elected positions, high society banquets and feudal rivalries, and so on and so forth). Like with Europe in the 19th century, they're effectively capitalist bourgeoisie who are distinguished only by titles and idiosyncratic last names.