From: Alex Ferguson (abf@cs.ucc.ie)
Date: Fri 21 Sep 2001 - 15:39:10 EEST
I have a couple of "Orlanthi clan life" questions for the proverbial
The tribal kingship. How feasible is it to "depose" or "persuade to
Now, on a more (in)delicate matter... Let's suppose a clan has a
panel. All opinions and ideas solicited, canonical or otherwise.
step down" a king? My mental picture is that it's certainly possible,
pragmatically, but that it would be harder than voting out a clan
chief, due to the greater formality of ritual involved. (Not to say,
the greater amount of political horse-trading.)
tradition of keeping thralls. (I know, boo, hiss.) What's the legal
position of having "relations" (in the Clinton sense) with non-free
persons? What if one fathers a child on a thrall -- does one have
a moral or legal responsiblility to raise the mother from thralldom?
(The implications of coercive procreation, even if only coerced
"by implicitation", are not only a question of dubious taste, as I
appreciate, but do in principle seem rather un-Orlanthi as regards
their thoroughgoingly Dim view of rape.)
Cheers,
Alex.
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