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inheritance and other problems
Feb. 21st, 2025 11:53 pmWas trucking along on a story. Carefully setting up the laws and customs of the kingdoms to move the characters around.
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super sons and daughters
Apr. 12th, 2023 10:53 pmOne important -- and much neglected -- issue in world-building is the generation of the next generation. And in superhero stories, that has to mean whether powers are inheritable.
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inheritance
May. 9th, 2020 11:51 pmI really ought to plot the novel before I work out the details of the denouement. . . .
But the heroine is going to, unexpectedly, discover that she will inherit after all. And another woman will learn she was the rightful heir all along.
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But the heroine is going to, unexpectedly, discover that she will inherit after all. And another woman will learn she was the rightful heir all along.
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raising the army
May. 29th, 2019 11:38 pmHmmm. . . .
Certain characters were going to be returning to their kingdoms only after the main villains were disposed of.
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Certain characters were going to be returning to their kingdoms only after the main villains were disposed of.
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Shortly before the story begins, the heroine's father became a noble.
I've yet to decide whether he was blindsided by an unexpected inheritance, or by the king's deciding to ennoble him. Blindsided is definite, he does not like the duties of the new role. . . .
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I've yet to decide whether he was blindsided by an unexpected inheritance, or by the king's deciding to ennoble him. Blindsided is definite, he does not like the duties of the new role. . . .
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hereditary magic
Oct. 29th, 2016 11:44 pmSo over here we've got a fairy woman who's vulnerable to iron and St. John's wort. And over there we have pixy lad who's vulnerable to people's turning their clothes inside out.
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fairy tales, kings, and succession
Sep. 19th, 2016 09:08 pmWas just about settled on partible inheritance for fairy tale kingdoms -- not only does it fit the fairy tales where there are kings who are brothers, it also helps split up the kingdoms after an only daughter princess marries an only son prince -- and if it would result in kingdoms the size of postage stamps, well, that would explain why a princess who sets out to seek her fortune can easily walk to the next one and get a job as a scullery maid.
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inheritance
Dec. 4th, 2015 11:09 pmThought I had it all worked out. In the fairytale kingdoms, inheritance is partible. Splits up all those kingdoms joined in matrimony so that future generations can work out fairy tales which end in such marriages again.
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worked, until it didn't
Mar. 6th, 2015 11:21 pmSo what is our hero thinking? About the succession or lack thereof, of course, and I was reflecting on how much history would be needed.
France for a long, long, long time had king after king succeeded by his first-born son. Some proclaimed it was divine providence, and it worked -- until it didn't, and the last Valois king died leaving his distant cousin his only heir.
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France for a long, long, long time had king after king succeeded by his first-born son. Some proclaimed it was divine providence, and it worked -- until it didn't, and the last Valois king died leaving his distant cousin his only heir.
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fairy tale kingdoms
Jan. 30th, 2015 11:41 pmSometimes the questions about how to develop a fairy tale revolve heavily about politics.
How did Sleeping Beauty's kingdom go on while she was sleeping, and the castle with her?
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How did Sleeping Beauty's kingdom go on while she was sleeping, and the castle with her?
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the theory and practice of succession
Apr. 13th, 2014 08:21 pmSo why on earth is this man here your overlord by succession? Whether king or noble?
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Jan. 25th, 2014 05:26 pmI have heard the principle of Chesterton's Fence propounded in many places. Explaining to young lawyers why a confusing wording and an apparently superfluous clause should be taken seriously and not just junked. Discussing why certain aspects of the tax code are the way they are.
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legitimacy and heirs
Dec. 23rd, 2013 10:37 pmRan across a tidbit about the False Dmitriys -- one of whom actually reigned as Tsar for some time, claiming to be the the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible. The tidbit was that the Russian Orthodox Church prohibited more than three marriages, and so Dmitriy was actually technically illegitimate. (Even though "Terrible" means "Inspiring Terror" -- still he went through a lot of brides.)
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which wife was she?
Dec. 14th, 2013 11:26 pmIn the backstory, there was this man. He went through seven wives, hoping for an heir.
During that time, he married my heroine's mother. Then he repudiated her because her dowry had been enchanted and so falsified. Then she had a baby.
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During that time, he married my heroine's mother. Then he repudiated her because her dowry had been enchanted and so falsified. Then she had a baby.
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So the heroine is facing off against her father's widow -- only recently widowed.
That's not the central problem, the widowhood. It's that through some shenanigans (and lack of alternatives), she's her father's heir. Installed and everything. And this woman is, of course, no longer the consort but the. . . .
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That's not the central problem, the widowhood. It's that through some shenanigans (and lack of alternatives), she's her father's heir. Installed and everything. And this woman is, of course, no longer the consort but the. . . .
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social status anxiety
Dec. 9th, 2013 08:43 pmSo I have my heroine off packing her luggage, at first. Once she got past what she wanted to keep secret, she called in the maids for the rest.
Man, she has a lot more anxiety about her sudden promotion than I had realized. Even when she was packing herself, without any company, it came out this draft.
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Man, she has a lot more anxiety about her sudden promotion than I had realized. Even when she was packing herself, without any company, it came out this draft.
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reflections on backstory
Dec. 5th, 2013 09:11 pmSlithering two pieces of info into the story with sufficient subtlety -- or trying to, at any rate.
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