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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Set" data-source="post: 3598869" data-attributes="member: 41584">Since most people wouldn't work both day and night, people would tend to gravitate to day jobs and night jobs, and quickly become visibly different in appearance and status.Darkvision users don't see colors, so they wouldn't be prone to wearing colorful clothing.  They'd be pale skinned.  Depending on the climate and the conditions, one class or the other would likely become an underclass.  Due to Vitamin D absorbtion problems, the night shift might be sickly (or not, depending on diet), and 'night work' and the 'night workers' regarded as lower class and expendable, a sort of heriditary untouchable caste.  Alternately, the day workers might end up tanned and leathery, and that sort of look be associated with common laborers, while the pale, flawless skin of the night workers might be associated with the similarly pale and flawless skin of the noble classes.  (In the real world, some noblewomen used small doses of poison on themselves to have paler skin...)There's sufficient rationale to go either way, depending on what the designer wants, and the actual nobility can just as easily spend more time hunting and hawking in the outdoors, if they want to avoid being pale-skinned.  A healthy golden tan, and 'being blessed by the sun' would then be associated with nobility, and some sort of pseudo-babble about noblemen being purified and closer to the noblest metal gold, than the commonfolk, would crop up to justify the ill-treatment of the night workers (and foisting night work off on people who are already ill-regarded, like slaves or foreign immigrants or criminals given work sentences or members of minority faiths / races / social groupings / etc).</blockquote>

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