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It was the intention of Agon to implement several changes spreading across House protocol, the most noticeable of which was to deal with subordinates in a manner quite the opposite of that of Count Cesare. While Count Cesare never dealt personally with anyone lower than a member or representative of a House Minor or other member of the wealthy gentry, Agon had intended to even act as a Judge to the peasantry and bourgeoisie at least once a year. His untimely death prevented even that from coming to fruition.

This change in dogma might have been a harbinger for a slightly more humane doctrine towards the simple, however, it also earned Agon the reputation among those more inclined to cling tightly to the "old ways" of being soft, lackadaisical, and even weak. Agon viewed himself and his nobles as both servants to the Emperor and to their people for the greatness of the name of House Moritani. This is not to say that na-Count Agon was mellow and showed less force, on the contrary when the need arose he would discipline his people as the situation warranted for their own good. It was his firm belief that a Noble's right to rule is derived by the greater good of the people, as is portrayed in the following passage:

Therefore a wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.
--Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Lady Ophelia has not yet openly declared her own beliefs on the matter, though she has proven to perhaps have an ideology which falls in the middle between the extremes of Cesare and Agon. Nobility is earned by birth, but, in times of need it might also be purchased. Never one to turn her own back on the peasantry, however, the Matriarch of the noble House Moritani has exhibited signs of having a tendency towards the role of "universal mother."

She has also shown a particular penchant towards meting out punishments of her own devising, and has been seen to take great pleasure in doing so. But such punishments or sanctions are never given unjustly; the Lasy has, on many occasions, been heard to mutter, "...and let the punishment fit the crime."

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