Potential RPG Idea

Nick22 · **Reply #100 on:** June 02, 2009, 02:20:50 AM

Her father and his allies.. which thanks to his children'smarriages are most of the important people in the region... Isla is in a very good position

Noname · **Reply #101 on:** June 02, 2009, 02:22:11 AM

She would be... as long as she keeps her father's favor; he is the source of her wealth. She will never really be independent in this set-up; she is either a part of the house of her father or her husband.

Nick22 · **Reply #102 on:** June 02, 2009, 02:25:05 AM

That is true, but since he has so many children, any "untoward behavior" will probably slip his notice. He's more concerned with his older, more important children then wondering what daughter 27 is doing, as long as she is not engaing in taboo and illicit conduct that would bring shame on the family, shje has more less a free hand..

Noname · **Reply #103 on:** June 02, 2009, 02:26:40 AM

That is true; her father would be concerned with running his estates and looking after his firstborn son more than daughter # 27.

Nick22 · **Reply #104 on:** June 02, 2009, 02:31:10 AM

Much in the way nobles ran things in the middle ages.. the poor and middle class were locked in service to thier lords. If you were born porr, you stayed poor, and everyone of your descendents did to. thee was no upwards mobility..

Noname · **Reply #105 on:** June 02, 2009, 02:31:52 AM

I know, it was bad... but some minor mobility existed for those who became knights, or those who entered the church... at least, a bit...

Nick22 · **Reply #106 on:** June 02, 2009, 02:35:42 AM

Mostly the church, much of our knowledge of the ancient works comes from copies writtens by scribes and monks.. many kings could barely read and write.. most church people could..

Noname · **Reply #107 on:** June 02, 2009, 02:38:08 AM

They had to know how to read; how else could you tell what was in the Bible otherwise? I know that illiterate people had to depend on the Church to tell them what was in the Bible, but the Church itself had to know..

Nick22 · **Reply #108 on:** June 02, 2009, 02:39:13 AM

I was refering to kings, not the church. the church was very literate, by the standards of the time..

Noname · **Reply #109 on:** June 02, 2009, 02:40:56 AM

Oh. I see.

In this setting, all Dracon kings of civilized areas are literate, although many tribal chiefs are not.

Most females are illiterate, even many noble ones, although it is not at all uncommon for a female noble to learn how to read and write.

Nick22 · **Reply #110 on:** June 02, 2009, 02:43:29 AM

Isla is literate and can read and write.. Her father believed in educating his children, and could afford to educate them..

Noname · **Reply #111 on:** June 02, 2009, 02:46:06 AM

That is good to hear; she wouldn't be such a good mage if she couldn't read her spells!

Nick22 · **Reply #112 on:** June 02, 2009, 02:47:43 AM

yes She wouldn't be much of a mage if she couldn't read..

Noname · **Reply #113 on:** June 02, 2009, 02:54:16 AM

True, although certain sorcerers in the Dracon lands cast magic by means of intuition and emotion, and don't need to learn how to read, although in practice, most learn how.

Nick22 · **Reply #114 on:** June 02, 2009, 02:55:19 AM

Emotions often lad to overcasting, that is putting too much power into spells..

Noname · **Reply #115 on:** June 02, 2009, 02:58:31 AM

True; a sorceress (for that is the emotionally-driven kind are among Dracons) has to be careful not too let out too much emotion, but cannot let out too little if her spells are to be effective.

Nick22 · **Reply #116 on:** June 02, 2009, 03:02:53 AM

I imagine spells have been used to steal wives and cause trouble right?

Noname · **Reply #117 on:** June 02, 2009, 03:07:27 AM

Not usually, but that can happen.

Nick22 · **Reply #118 on:** June 02, 2009, 03:08:45 AM

Yeah i imagine it would..

Noname · **Reply #119 on:** June 02, 2009, 03:11:39 AM

Magic can often be used to disrupt the social order... I will have to consider the implications of that in the RP world.