[HQ Ignorance] Re : First Scene: Sog City, Syanorian attitudes etc

[Nic Hughes]

I meant to answer this earlier.

When I put bastard down on the narrative I had a few things in mind. One 
of them was my assumption that even where the Syanorian Church no longer 
holds power the cultural attitudes are pretty well established and it 
remains about the worst insult that you can direct at a man throughout 
the Janube valley and Jonatela.

One could almost wonder why a wet behind the ears courier ended up in 
pitched battle with demons from the Kingdom of War, hardly the most 
obvious choice to put in the forefront unless he is by far your most 
expendable asset - or even an outright embarrassment to powerful people. 
This may also be a commentary on what chances of success the Riverjoin 
rulers think this particular quest has.

In case anyone was wondering one of my other ideas is that when a crisis 
causes his illumination to turn to occlusion he will use bastard as a 
character trait and fully live down to the derogatory meaning of the 
word. You have been warned.

However I never thought there was much risk of him running into one of 
the 4 or 5 people in the world with the religious duty and magical 
ability to punish bastards for their birth with tapping. He'd have to be 
incredibly unlucky for that to happen :)

Nic

Andrew J. Weill wrote:
> I don't think Jonatelans as such have a bias against bastards; it's those
> really uptight, prissy Church of Syanor types from Timms who think bastards
> are an abomination and should be Tapped.
>
> However, Donalari is the Bishop of the Church of Syanor for Timms ...
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