>> This is essentially correct. They get responsibilities on one
>> hand, and then they get the means to obtain income on the other
>> that will allow them to fulfill those obligations.
>
> Which, of course is how all systems are *supposed* to work - My
> suggestions were to look at the cases where this relationship was
> breaking down for some reason.
Yes. The system is essentially intact, up to now. Your game is about what happens next.
> When the kingdom was under the Ban,
> maybe they never did, as there ws no outside force, but with the ban
> lifting then not everything is as closely controlled. Whether the
> Loksalmi are prepared to admit that, of course is another matter!
The admission or not of Loskalmi shortcomings is of course a HUGE part of the story. Certainly many will hold tothe Old Way, others will stress the need to be practical.
> But now the Ban is broken and
> sometimes things go wrong. Maybe outsiders intrude - Krjalki,
> Soldiers from the Kingdom of War, Bandits, Barbarians or rapacious
> Foreign Merchants, or maybe a "natural" disaster strikes, - disease,
> blight, unusually sever weather (The rain bearing Orlanth Winds
> fail...) and so the manor fails to generate it's income of X, but
> the lord is still expected to meat his obligations.
At the moment, this is largely borne by the rest of his constituency. That is, the community is still willing to take their share of the loss. Everyone goes hungry when there is a food shortage, and the lords are not allowed to sieze their share at the expense of the peasantry. The lords don't have to maintain their pompous standard of living, etc.
> If the Loksalmi
> system can deal with this (or adapt to do so), then there is
> unlikely to be a problem - but if it fails to recognise that such a
> problem could arise then I was assuming the unfotunate lord would
> need to look elsewhere to make up the shortfall...)
A question worth investigating is:
Where would they look for this other income?
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