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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 5823608" data-attributes="member: 9037">In the Katherine Kurtz book the incident was what spurred the Deryni Duke of that area to help put a human King back on the throne. Which he and his family did accomplish. Of course once the humans had power they turned on the Deryni and butchered them and passed laws that prevented them from becoming priests and other restrictions. It took 200 years since the humans came back to power for the abuses of the Deryni to stop and that was because the new King is half Deryni through his mother. They are excellent novels with a lot of historical accuracy on the weapons and armor and how the Catholic church operated. The reason the nobility often had more power was because they were the ones that had the brute force they had the knights and the edged weapons while the serfs did not nor were the serfs trained in combat. In my roommate's game while the nobility have  more power then the peasants not all the nobility treat their peasants as subhuman but have a more outlook of they are responsible for their people's well being. Nobility who mistreat their people are considered tyrants and if the party wanted to go after them she would be fine with that.The settings though requires you to realize if you play a commoner you don't have the freedom to just mouth off to a noble born and expect to get away with it. If you want to do something to this noble you need to use cunning and guile to accomplish it especially at lower levels. I think the biggest mistake is when people try and use well it is not historically accurate as an argument for things like this. Once you add magic both divine and arcane into the world there is no real world historical culture to base it on.What is cool about a fantasy setting is the ability to add things to it like Kings who really do rule from divine right as the gods who are very real granted them that right.</blockquote>

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