t.
>
> In the information about the Larnsti it says that
> they
> maintained the freedom of the Kingdom by remaining
> free in Mind and Spirit. Now, I think that might
> have
> something to do with why Broyan is all about the
> year-wives, but I also want to get people's
> interpretations of that. Is it some kind of geas
> ala
> Humakt or Yelmalio? Or something else. It sounds
> suspiciously like illumination to me.
>
> Also, is Larnste alive? Or has he died or faded
> away
> with all of the Celestial Court besides Uleria?
>
> t.
>
> --- donald_at_... wrote:
>
> > In message <d7q2rm+6uap_at_...> "Rob" writes:
> >
> > >Come on Jane, the society is not illiterate, its
> > just that most
> > >people (85%) can't read or write.
> >
> > That's usually what's meant by an "illiterate
> > society". Not that
> > they don't have reading and writing but that it's
> a
> > specialism
> > which only a minority can perform. I'm not sure
> > where the 15%
> > figure for literate individuals comes from either,
> > Lhankor Mhy
> > is only one of the many cults who make up the 15%
> > minority and
> > it's the only cult where literacy is required. So
> > I'd put the
> > figure at below 5% including all the people who've
> > learnt just
> > enough to write their own name and read some basic
> > words.
> >
> > >The ones that can, do it for a
> > >living, and generally are very, very good at it.
>
> >
> > You can make a reasonable living as a scribe in an
> > illiterate
> > society without being particularly good. An
> average
> > clan will
> > rarely have anyone with a decent written
> vocabulary
> > and what's
> > more I suspect the commonest written language in
> > 1620's Sartar
> > will be New Pelorian. Simply because there will be
> > more stuff
> > written in that language than anything else and
> the
> > clans will
> > have grown to distrust Lunar official's
> translations
> > of official
> > documents. Lunar missionaries will also be the
> most
> > common
> > source of such learning.
> >
> > --
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