Well, I don't want it to be just like medieval Europe--in fact, I wish authors would more often think out different-from-Earth social and economic structures. But they have to make sense--I can't just accept "this is how it works here" if it seems illogical.
For example, if one family holds a throne for 300 years without any attempts at revolts or coups, without the main line dying out and it going to a cadet branch, without any of their enemies managing to conquer them even temporarily--well, sure I can buy it happening in a fantasy world, but it's so far from human nature (and not just medieval Europe) that I would want to know why.
(I don't know that this is what happened with the Contes, but I'm slightly suspicious that Jon's Coronation is the first real challenge the Contes have had to the throne, and that makes me go O_o).
I wouldn't object to the convent-finishing-school if the text didn't also tell us that noblewomen run fiefs.
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Date: 31 Dec 2010 06:05 pm (UTC)From:For example, if one family holds a throne for 300 years without any attempts at revolts or coups, without the main line dying out and it going to a cadet branch, without any of their enemies managing to conquer them even temporarily--well, sure I can buy it happening in a fantasy world, but it's so far from human nature (and not just medieval Europe) that I would want to know why.
(I don't know that this is what happened with the Contes, but I'm slightly suspicious that Jon's Coronation is the first real challenge the Contes have had to the throne, and that makes me go O_o).
I wouldn't object to the convent-finishing-school if the text didn't also tell us that noblewomen run fiefs.