ANST - Nobility/peerages

[Raymond Catz]

> Whew!  That would be interesting....I know it has been brought
> up before, especially in the context of the White Scarves being
> brought to the actual peerage level.  Wonder how that kite would
> fly now?

Well, there are only three ways to do it.

1. Elevate the entirety of the existing Order into a new peerage.  This is
a big problem and I doubt the existing peerages would sit still for it. 
And rightly so.

2. Pick and choose from within and without the existing Order and create an
entirely new entity.  Personally, I would rather not be involved in the
civil war that would almost certainly cause.  To stand a chance of
preventing it, you would have to close the WSA first.  Not good.

3. Expand the Chivalry to accomodate knighthood for fencers.  Far and away
the most attractive of the options, but try convincing the Chivalry.  Truth
to tell, I think that once in the misty past there may have been a path
that we could have taken that would have led there, but we've long since
passed the opportunity.

>From a purely logistical standpoint, I think that the fourth peerage idea
is impractical at present.
 

> >  I therefore think that fealty should be incumbent on us all.
> 
> I gotta problem with that....Although I love this game, there have
> been those who have sat the thrones, to whom I would not be
> bound to with an oath of fealty. And there have been those for
> whom I would gladly perform the Herculean Tasks!   I would rather
> have the option to stay silent than be forsworn.

This is the dilemma of the Knight and the TB.  And many has been the time
that, as a WS in fealty, I have had to make some pretty difficult choices. 
Fealty, for some, is part of the landscape, and part of the glue that binds
a peer or noble to his people.  A poor monarch does not necessarily affect
the nature of the oath.  Fealty also comes in more than one variety.  This
does not have to be the problem you think.


						Jeremy
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