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.
> 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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> Donald Oddy
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