The Open Furnace Question

The Open Furnace Question asks whether Drazakar should expand, fortify, or turn its immense machinery inward to prevent decay. Marshals demand campaigns, levy keepers fear overstretch, and governors know peace might leave too many armed men looking for purpose. The debate smells of furnace smoke, old maps, iron dust, ration grain, and anxiety hidden beneath command. Its cost is moral and structural: expansion devours provinces, fortification feeds paranoia, and inward purges may teach the machine to eat its own makers.