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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Bowman" data-source="post: 7352166" data-attributes="member: 6925649"><p>Then again, why would a sword care about who one's parents are, because that is basically what makes a king. What humans do to organize themselves is of little concern to something as alien as an intelligent sword. Would an intelligent sword respect human institutions and customs such as kingship? Just because someone sits on a throne because of who his parents were doesn't not necessarily make him worth to rule a kingdom. You have to remember commoners outnumber monarchs and nobles, statistically among their number, you will find someone who is smarter than any king, and perhaps is a better fighter than any knight, or he has the potential to be such if developed. Feudal customs notwithstanding. The sword has his own ideas. Maybe the sword would like to rule the kingdom, or maybe the sword would like to overthrow it! The problem is, being a sword is sort of like a curse, you need someone else to do anything or to have awareness. A sword without someone to hold it cannot see, it cannot be aware of its surroundings unless it sees through someone else's eyes. If it gets picked up by someone it can't control of steer, then it is at the mercy of that someone. If it is picked up by a low level character, then through adventuring it can share experience points with that adventurer, thus the person advances in a level and so does the sword, and thus the sword's magical bonus increases with each level. The person wielding the sword would advance more slowly, as he is sharing experience points with the sword.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thomas Bowman, post: 7352166, member: 6925649"] Then again, why would a sword care about who one's parents are, because that is basically what makes a king. What humans do to organize themselves is of little concern to something as alien as an intelligent sword. Would an intelligent sword respect human institutions and customs such as kingship? Just because someone sits on a throne because of who his parents were doesn't not necessarily make him worth to rule a kingdom. You have to remember commoners outnumber monarchs and nobles, statistically among their number, you will find someone who is smarter than any king, and perhaps is a better fighter than any knight, or he has the potential to be such if developed. Feudal customs notwithstanding. The sword has his own ideas. Maybe the sword would like to rule the kingdom, or maybe the sword would like to overthrow it! The problem is, being a sword is sort of like a curse, you need someone else to do anything or to have awareness. A sword without someone to hold it cannot see, it cannot be aware of its surroundings unless it sees through someone else's eyes. If it gets picked up by someone it can't control of steer, then it is at the mercy of that someone. If it is picked up by a low level character, then through adventuring it can share experience points with that adventurer, thus the person advances in a level and so does the sword, and thus the sword's magical bonus increases with each level. The person wielding the sword would advance more slowly, as he is sharing experience points with the sword. [/QUOTE]
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