Editing The Bloody Lords (section)

== ''Modus operandi'' ==
The Carmine Lords are meant to hold lordships while deferring things to the judges, effectively giving them back the power a lordship would steal from them.

They regularly hand off lordships to one another in rotation so that they're moving targets.<ref>“You’re on a collision course for settlements.  Moving from Lordship to Lordship, trading with whoever you run into.  Moving from A to B, give B’s lord A.  Move from B to C, give C’s lord B, and so on.  It’s messing with people, disrupting things.  Causing a lot of mess.  This works a lot better if you just go north.”
 - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/05/25 Excerpt] form [[Wild Abandon 18.z]]</ref> Withanotherr other recruited or created to take over if one is removed.<ref name=mp>“There is a group in position to take the lordship from the Multifaceted Pig.  When that happens, the Lord from this adjacent Lordship will move, taking that Lordship back, another will move into their place…”<br><br>Verona watched as shadows moved across the table, each stopping when they got to the center of a territory.  Leaving one territory not that far from Kennet, blank and unshadowed.<br><br>“With one left empty.  I have time to create an Other.  It may be the last proper Lord I create before Musser makes his initial move on Kennet, to soften it up further, and set up a Lord.  He’s probably going to pass through this territory on his way.”<br>[...]<br>“On your way.  You know where to go, what to do,” Charles said.  “A Lordship will be handed to you.”<br><br>“But the primary principle of administration will belong to the Judges,” the man replied, voice soft. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/07/05 Excerpt] from [[Crossed with Silver 19.12]]</ref>