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notbecauseofvictories · 3 months

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though, lingering over that last post....I wonder how easily this trips into horror story? I mean, in this world where there are child-producing marriages and then sisterhoods/brotherhoods for the rest, this obviously allows the family to keep a stranglehold on their collective assets and wealth. Therefore, I bet that family is an even more tightly-locked cage for those born into it.

Oh, you thought that if you could just escape marriage you'd be free, didn't you? You thought you could join the local order and letter manuscripts or tend goats or say prayers over the dying---but no. No, that's for other people's sons and daughters. You have no escape. You will serve your family forever, whether you will or no. You marry who they tell you to and live in your family's third-nicest castle your whole life; you can have as many lovers and bastards as you want, you can earn coin all on your own, if you can, but it will come to naught in the end. You will be cursed with absolute surety of where you fall: res nullius.

As it was and ever shall be, amen.

#and the reverse! no longer is becoming a monk or a nun a way to try and climb the ranks of a highly stratified system #because the wealthy nobles don't dump their spares into the church and pay for them to be abbot of wherever #instead they push them into brother/sisterhoods #where they don't have to worry about losing access to those familial assets long term #the question is then - if this system is so good at keeping everyone inside it #how does it break. where does it break.#I think you could do some real gender fuckery with this concept as well but I'd have to think about how #........also we'd probably have to change some probate law around. because there's no way that your third son #should be able to bequeath YOUR castle to his illegitimate son #even if you did give it to your son and his 'brother' on their wedding day.#I'd have to get really into medieval wills though and who has the time.#(I'm avoiding work can you tell?)

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