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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 73175" data-attributes="member: 891">Because it's a class-based social system where you were brought up to believe those people had a natural place to authority just as much as you were brought up to do your business in the outhouse rather than on the kitchen table.The mere idea of presuming yourself outside of your station would be as abhorant to you as the idea of presuming you could have a bunch of slaves would be to a 21st century westerner.There is no concept of 'I deserve this or that because you came to me for help' in this kind of society. There is rather a gratitude for being picked out (at least publicly) and shown to be a 'good doggy'.You might get granted some kind of minor title (knighted for instance) for your deeds. But you would never presume you had the right to demand such a reward. And getting more than such a minor title would be absurd.The cases of such presumptiveness on any large scale are rare enough in the historical record. They tend to result in things like the French Revolution or the American Revolution.On a smaller scale they result in people cast out as bandits or 'food for the gibbet'.This concept of 'I deserve to be ranked by merit of my abilties' is modern and is generally not present in fantasy. It tends to completely rip apart any social system based on nobility or class by birth.A society where adventurers started getting this idea into their heads would very quickly find itself rent apart in social chaos until a new order was put together without any nobility.</blockquote>

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