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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 9440330" data-attributes="member: 6802378">We are talking about fiction, but I don't feel confortable with this threat about child soldiers. If some detail may be too unconfortable or controversial, then the coherence with the continuity has to be sacrificed From TV tropes: Child Solider - Real Life.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ancient Sparta is one of the most infamous examples, with boys as young as 7 entering a formalized and brutal training system known as agoge. Although actual combat duties didn’t start until years later, this arguably produced the toughest soldiers in the Greek world.</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheMiddleAges" target="_blank">The Middle Ages</a>: The training of a <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KnightInShiningArmor" target="_blank">knight</a> usually began at the age of seven (7), and it was claimed after twelve, the boy is fit only for a priest. When a <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KidSamurai" target="_blank">young nobleboy</a> turned 14, he was expected to serve his master on the battlefield as a squire. Around age 20, he would serve as a full-fledged man-at-arms. It's noteworthy, though, that while training did begin at seven, the first years were generally spent under the tutelage of the wife of the knight the boy would eventually serve, where the boy was taught things such as proper etiquette and conduct, chess, music and other societal skills. They weren't expected to actually fight in battle until reaching squirehood unless the fight came to them, for the practical reason that most children that age wouldn't have the strength to make a meaningful contribution in the battle line anyway.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Most feudal systems with a warrior-aristocrat caste, such as Japan's samurai and India's rajputs were raised in a similar manner.</li> </ul></li> </ul></blockquote>

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