Let's talk about Lacrymas' homebrew fantasy setting where paladins are eunuchs

[Lacrymas]

Oh, btw, we still need one more person for the one-shot.

 

[Bara]

far more likely nowdays than banning crossbows on medieval periods.

Didnt a buch of nobles try that by getting the pope to declare the cross bow un-christian? Or some such.

 

[Sharpedge]

Oh, btw, we still need one more person for the one-shot.

Maybe S0rcererV1ct0r?

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Considering some of the guards are paladins with magical powers, and the general population don't have any weapons, that militarized police force would be easier to come by than it looks at first glance.

Imagine thinking that the state in a pseudo-medieval setting would have enough resources and manpower to waste on training a magical paladin police force large enough as to impose such arbitrary laws across the countryside.

Not like the elites of such a state would be interested in imposing such measures in the first place since there's no material incentive to do so, but I guess that you can conveniently brush that aside by making them religious fundamentalists.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Considering some of the guards are paladins with magical powers, and the general population don't have any weapons (let alone guns in an ancient setting)

What do they plow the land with? Cut logs with? Their hands?
even the fat fuck who wrote witcher was smart enough to realize that enough peasants armed with farmtools could kill Geralt

 

[Cryomancer]

Maybe S0rcererV1ct0r?

Only if I can play as a epic level sorcerer with a succubus familiar/pet. hu3h3uh3u3hu3

 

[Sharpedge]

Maybe S0rcererV1ct0r?

Only if I can play as a epic level sorcerer with a succubus familiar/pet. hu3h3uh3u3hu3

You could always play the sacrificial paladin.

 

[Lacrymas]

Considering some of the guards are paladins with magical powers, and the general population don't have any weapons, that militarized police force would be easier to come by than it looks at first glance.

Imagine thinking that the state in a pseudo-medieval setting would have enough resources and manpower to waste on training a magical paladin police force large enough as to impose such arbitrary laws across the countryside.

Not like the elites of such a state would be interested in imposing such measures in the first place since there's no material incentive to do so, but I guess that you can conveniently brush that aside by making them religious fundamentalists.

It's not an arbitrary rule with no material incentive, it's deliberate population control so that everyone has enough food and water.

 

[Bara]

Wait is this a post apocalyptic setting or some such. Whats justifying this resource scarcity?

Is this theocracy a major kingdom or is it really just a city and castle?

That I could see justifying the poplation control stuff if its a city-state only sorta deal in a messed up world.

 

[Storyfag]

the general population don't have any weapons (let alone guns in an ancient setting)

Pitchforks.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

It's not an arbitrary rule with no material incentive, it's deliberate population control so that everyone has enough food and water.

So arbitrary, since local demographic trends would self-regulate. Not to mention dumb since a one child policy would lead both to a shrinkage of the population and risk famine for the latter if you have too many youths die due to sicknesses, wars or what have you. And even on an individual basis, father is growing old and his teenage son just died - who do you think is going to do the farm work needed to feed the family?

Not to mention that the interest of the state is for the peasantry to overproduce their goods in order to feed the cities (and the manors of the elite if we are talking about a feudal system), so good luck sustaining that without enough of an agrarian labor force employed in labor intensive farming.

 

[Lacrymas]

Wait is this a post apocalyptic setting or some such. Whats justifying this resource scarcity?

Is this theocracy a major kingdom or is it really just a city and castle?

That I could see justifying the poplation control stuff if its a city-state only sorta deal in a messed up world.

It's a desert world...

 

[Lacrymas]

one child policy

There is no one child policy.

 

[Lambach]

Resource scarcity would mean local communities would police themselves in terms of undesirable births (e.g. by drowning unwanted infants or chucking them from cliffs or what have you, as has been the case throughout history) with no need of some external militarized force or Lacrytard's cockless Paladins to enforce such an order of things. The only scenario in which I see a government-like entity, like the churches in the aforementioned setting, would interfere is the one in which it's expected of said entity to actively provide for all people under its care, yet they cannot afford to do so because of resource scarcity. This is not very typical of medieval times, where the higher authorities were thinking more in the lines of "Have 10 kids if you want, lmao, but if 6 of them starve to death, it's on you, fuccboi"

 

[Heroic Liberator]

one child policy

There is no one child policy.

Less children policy then. The same issues remain.

 

[Lacrymas]

Killing anyone is extremely forbidden and taboo, you can't drown your unwanted babies. It's not a medieval world.

 

[Bara]

It's a desert world...

Ah completly missed that my bad. But how big is this theocracy anyhow in terms of regional control and population?

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Killing anyone is extremely forbidden and taboo, you can't drown your unwanted babies. It's not a medieval world.

And if you do kill them or have them aborted by forcing a miscarriage, who is going to know?

 

[Lacrymas]

Ah completly missed that my bad. But how big is this theocracy anyhow in terms of regional control and population?

In order for a village to be made, it has to have at least 1 of each type of priest, along with the necessary guards/paladins.

 

[Lacrymas]

And if you do kill them or have them aborted by forcing a miscarriage, who is going to know?

You can certainly do that, you just hope you don't get caught. There's also the fact you can't really hide the fact you are pregnant, especially while doing your daily routines/duties and sometimes attending festivals/rituals.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Ah completly missed that my bad. But how big is this theocracy anyhow in terms of regional control and population?

In order for a village to be made, it has to have at least 1 of each type of priest, along with the necessary guards/paladins.

So your setting has forced resettlements too? There's no incentive for anyone to move and found a new village if your benevolent theocratic dictatorship already has solved the scarcity issue through population control.

 

[Lambach]

So your setting has forced resettlements too? There's no incentive for anyone to move and found a new village if your benevolent theocratic dictatorship already has solved the scarcity issue through population control.

Wait a fucking second. Desert setting. Resource scarcity. Theocracy. Forced resettlements. Oh my god.

Lacrymas' setting is Israel.

 

[Lacrymas]

So your setting has forced resettlements too? There's no incentive for anyone to move and found a new village if your benevolent theocratic dictatorship already has solved the scarcity issue through population control.

It has only solved water and food, other resources aren't magically enough. They also want to expand their influence and geographical control. They allow more children when a new village is made, so people who do want more children have an incentive to move as well. The military wants to keep an eye out for the orcs and bandits. There's no forced resettlement.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

that does explain the dick cutting part

 

[Ataraxia]

So your setting has forced resettlements too? There's no incentive for anyone to move and found a new village if your benevolent theocratic dictatorship already has solved the scarcity issue through population control.

Wait a fucking second. Desert setting. Resource scarcity. Theocracy. Forced resettlements. Oh my god.

Lacrymas' setting is Israel.

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