the place of kings
Jan. 18th, 2016 12:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marycatelliSo I observed at one point that a status in a land is granted by the king. . . .
Kinda important what the king can do if I don't decide to revise it out. Could be a pure constitutional monarch with a figureheard; could even rip off Cordwainer Smith and have them all loyal to a king who vanished centuries ago, as there's no knowing, he might come back. Could be an absolute monarch, though not likely in other details of the society. Could be -- a magical position where the big job is keeping the land safe and prosperous.
A magical position, like that of absolute monarch, requires some capabiliities of the monarch -- though very different ones -- probably. You could just have a spell where the land is dependent on their being a person of the royal blood. (Which would explain why the evil usurper locks the monarch in a tower and blinds him without kililng him.) But such inklings as I have had point to this king needing to be a wizard, though not a great master wizard.
Still up in the air on it. It's only in the latter books that it may come to the front.
Kinda important what the king can do if I don't decide to revise it out. Could be a pure constitutional monarch with a figureheard; could even rip off Cordwainer Smith and have them all loyal to a king who vanished centuries ago, as there's no knowing, he might come back. Could be an absolute monarch, though not likely in other details of the society. Could be -- a magical position where the big job is keeping the land safe and prosperous.
A magical position, like that of absolute monarch, requires some capabiliities of the monarch -- though very different ones -- probably. You could just have a spell where the land is dependent on their being a person of the royal blood. (Which would explain why the evil usurper locks the monarch in a tower and blinds him without kililng him.) But such inklings as I have had point to this king needing to be a wizard, though not a great master wizard.
Still up in the air on it. It's only in the latter books that it may come to the front.