kings and queens and magical knights
Jul. 1st, 2023 11:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marycatelliA royal character who does not become a wizard -- and the amount of study means that course is discouraged -- becomes a magical knight.
Does he, or even a noble character, get more say than others in the power set he will get?
Rank hath its privileges, but one is controlling your children's lives in a way a less powerful parent can't, and magical medicine ensures that most of them have a living parent while being knighted.
Also, it's a lot harder to do something with someone of high birth and unusual power set. A commoner, gentry, or lower-ranking noble can be sent somewhere. Those of high rank have too many duties from their birth. An incompatible power set would be a real nuisance. Plus they want the respect because they still require social power as well as magical power. A fireball can only blast a peasant, it can't make him pay his rent.
It would be revealing of character, if they were allowed a free hand. Perhaps there are provisions for disinheriting unsuitable heirs, faster than they can bring disaster. On the other hand, the parents will want to cover up unsuitability, often.
Hmmm. . . and of course, they are still young. That aggravates the issue, but there is still, come to think of it, the issue of what powers their character would naturally gravitate toward, what powers the wizard tries to give them, and what powers they dream of. There need be no correlation between them.
Does he, or even a noble character, get more say than others in the power set he will get?
Rank hath its privileges, but one is controlling your children's lives in a way a less powerful parent can't, and magical medicine ensures that most of them have a living parent while being knighted.
Also, it's a lot harder to do something with someone of high birth and unusual power set. A commoner, gentry, or lower-ranking noble can be sent somewhere. Those of high rank have too many duties from their birth. An incompatible power set would be a real nuisance. Plus they want the respect because they still require social power as well as magical power. A fireball can only blast a peasant, it can't make him pay his rent.
It would be revealing of character, if they were allowed a free hand. Perhaps there are provisions for disinheriting unsuitable heirs, faster than they can bring disaster. On the other hand, the parents will want to cover up unsuitability, often.
Hmmm. . . and of course, they are still young. That aggravates the issue, but there is still, come to think of it, the issue of what powers their character would naturally gravitate toward, what powers the wizard tries to give them, and what powers they dream of. There need be no correlation between them.