RE: Eurmali Plausible? (was Re: Eurmali)

From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_...>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:55:58 +0100

> > The Colymar can't really stop her, as queen she chooses her retainers.
> > Those retainers are not some sort of government employees although
> > indirectly the tribe pays to support them. I'm sure there are some
> > people who criticise her for keeping a trickster but other than
> > choosing a new king or queen there's nothing they can do about it.

And in the case of Leika, they did! OK, there were other reasons as well, but she did get kicked out by her own tribe.

> > There's also the fact that the trickster will be a member of the
> > tribe with family. I suspect many tricksters are bonded as a
> > favour to someone because the alternative is having the outlawed
> > or beaten to death.
>
> Here I disagree. As a rule, I think the trickster's kin disavows the
> trickster completely and in many cases would be first in the line for
> killing the trickster.

They might say that. I very much doubt if feelings would really change that fast overnight. There's this strange tendency for parents to defend their children no matter how outrageously they behave.