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<blockquote data-quote="Bluenose" data-source="post: 8425632" data-attributes="member: 49017">Revolts happen. Not necessarily successful ones, but some are (usually if they're supported by the wealthy urban peasantry, who can afford time to train as part of their militia duties and can hire mercenary professionals from outside the realm to do some of the harder fighting). I will note that I over-simplified by talking of &quot;Western&quot; culture. It's true from the point of view of how they approach magic (officially), and something of the caste system is found in nearly all places where that's true. But like Christianity or Islam, there's a lot of different cultures that practice the religious/magical aspects - and some of them are rather strange about it in the way the Taiping were &quot;Christian&quot;. Some of them encourage caste progression, so a peasant who excels in their militia exercises might be approached to try to become a knight, and maybe later a wizard and even a lord. Although if you start off as the son of a knight then your chance of having the skills that are needed to become a knight yourself are much higher, but officially you will also start your career in some sort of peasant career.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bluenose, post: 8425632, member: 49017"] Revolts happen. Not necessarily successful ones, but some are (usually if they're supported by the wealthy urban peasantry, who can afford time to train as part of their militia duties and can hire mercenary professionals from outside the realm to do some of the harder fighting). I will note that I over-simplified by talking of "Western" culture. It's true from the point of view of how they approach magic (officially), and something of the caste system is found in nearly all places where that's true. But like Christianity or Islam, there's a lot of different cultures that practice the religious/magical aspects - and some of them are rather strange about it in the way the Taiping were "Christian". Some of them encourage caste progression, so a peasant who excels in their militia exercises might be approached to try to become a knight, and maybe later a wizard and even a lord. Although if you start off as the son of a knight then your chance of having the skills that are needed to become a knight yourself are much higher, but officially you will also start your career in some sort of peasant career. [/QUOTE]

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