From: Joerg Baumgartner (joe@sartar.toppoint.de)
Date: Thu 09 Jun 1994 - 16:23:40 EEST
Mike Dickison in X-RQ-ID: 4442
Me:
>>Royal lineage amongst the barbarians: Do you mean native barbarian royalty,
>>or imported Ralian royalty?
> Ralian. I make a distinction between Royalty (Trader Prices, Ralian,
> quasi-civilised families) and Barbarians (unwashed, Vorlani(Orlanthi)
> peasants). The Royalty rule in name, not in practice.
The what keeps them fed and provided? With trade as a source of income largely diminished, they'd need to rely on their serfs' produce to survive.
> I guess I think the Trader Princes are about as powerful as the British
> royal family are today (and we're still Monarchists down here in NZ!) I bet
> the barbarians just adore them to bits, dote on their fancy clothes, and
> gossip about their liaisons.
So they feed them out of free will? The fancy clothes need to be paid...
>> Don't the Trader Princes keep up the caravans as a religious duty....
> Yes, to some extent, though Esrolia has placed an embargo on trade with the
> barbarians (though there's some "gun-running" going on).
There still is Porthomeka, not-quite Esrolia, under Caladrian (male!) nobility, to trade with, as well as Gemborg.
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-- Joerg Baumgartner joe@sartar.toppoint.de
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