Re: Fronela, The Abiding Book, and Castes

From: ttrotsky2 <TTrotsky_at_J63jzHAsQVTsP0Hu8Qd3aia4WCiBhuMwLeZAUTshpNDZFzv00f4uzptldLoaNVp_oNA>
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 17:22:24 -0000

>
> I can't help you with the technical details of who had the abiding
> book when and all that. Trotsky has a good diagram of how the Malkioni
> sects relate to each other.or descended from each other, on his
> excellent site.
>
> On castes, remember that the whole caste thing was 'designed' for an
> immortal populace of Brithini. The inheritance thing is a complication
> that is only required when there is death and birth mucking things up.
> This is what makes the rules vague and open to interpretation.

Exactly.

> The exact definitions of words are also made vague, although I
> understand that "Knighthood" is a specific Hrestoli status derived
> from Hrestol. The "fighting" caste is the soldiers.

Yes, knighthood is an invention of Hrestol. Whether knights are the entire fighting caste, just the upper echelons of it, or something else entirely, is the sort of thing that Malkioni sects like to argue and kill each other over.

-- 
Trotsky
Gamer and Skeptic

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