Jul-22-2012, 12:09 AM (UTC)
^ 
I agree, and this is well evidenced by what happened between the Six Duchies and the Out Islands once Dutiful and Elliania were wed, and those who were encouraging division, Kebal Rawbread and the Pale Woman, were done away with. Plenty of weddings, for both the nobility and common folk, and smaller political alliances were willingly made thereafter. Once the negative leadership element was squelched, it was as though the forging of the bond between the buck and the narwhal’s ‘royalty’ gave everyone within the two groups permission to put aside past grievances and overcome any cultural shortcomings or prejudices.
It’s surprising how quickly friendship can blossom when allowed or encouraged to do so, and this swiftness suggests that, for the most part, people are/have long been readily prepared to forgive…they just needed permission from the upper echelon to do so.
The same would be for Chalced. Delete the negative element (in this case the Duke) who is usually the leader or within the folds of leadership and replace it with an element willing to give Chalced permission to mingle in friendship with its neighbours. I think it will have to come in the form of Chassim as she is the Duke's daughter and in a potential leadership position. Whilst she is a woman and, as we have found out in CoD and through Kyle in LST etc, women are not considered 'leader material' in Chalced, maybe change is coming for Chalced in the form of a strong woman (Chassim) with a group of strong women behind her. If she is wanting to create change and build an army of sorts with housewives etc, imagine how formidable she would be and how much change she could help create in the realm given unlimited resources and the power of a leadership title behind her? She obviously wants to lift the shroud of suppression that *she* lives under, by any means that she is able to do so, and so is likely to want to lift it from all of those who are suppressed in Chalced (women, slaves, Skilled ones etc).
Likely I should be carrying on about all of this in the CoD thread though.
(Jul-19-2012, 07:13 AM (UTC))thul Wrote: The ones with power there appear somewhat to suffer from slight to strong xenophobia...
The common people have no real choice but to obey. if the nobility were to die, they would probably develop into a different society. especially if "encouraged" by others to do so...
I agree, and this is well evidenced by what happened between the Six Duchies and the Out Islands once Dutiful and Elliania were wed, and those who were encouraging division, Kebal Rawbread and the Pale Woman, were done away with. Plenty of weddings, for both the nobility and common folk, and smaller political alliances were willingly made thereafter. Once the negative leadership element was squelched, it was as though the forging of the bond between the buck and the narwhal’s ‘royalty’ gave everyone within the two groups permission to put aside past grievances and overcome any cultural shortcomings or prejudices.
It’s surprising how quickly friendship can blossom when allowed or encouraged to do so, and this swiftness suggests that, for the most part, people are/have long been readily prepared to forgive…they just needed permission from the upper echelon to do so.
The same would be for Chalced. Delete the negative element (in this case the Duke) who is usually the leader or within the folds of leadership and replace it with an element willing to give Chalced permission to mingle in friendship with its neighbours. I think it will have to come in the form of Chassim as she is the Duke's daughter and in a potential leadership position. Whilst she is a woman and, as we have found out in CoD and through Kyle in LST etc, women are not considered 'leader material' in Chalced, maybe change is coming for Chalced in the form of a strong woman (Chassim) with a group of strong women behind her. If she is wanting to create change and build an army of sorts with housewives etc, imagine how formidable she would be and how much change she could help create in the realm given unlimited resources and the power of a leadership title behind her? She obviously wants to lift the shroud of suppression that *she* lives under, by any means that she is able to do so, and so is likely to want to lift it from all of those who are suppressed in Chalced (women, slaves, Skilled ones etc).
Likely I should be carrying on about all of this in the CoD thread though.
"I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves."
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