#so they were freehold. and their lords.... fled? the war? and now they pay taxes to the crown and are. fortress. servants. | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

unopenablebox · 14 days ago

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now of course the real reason that doesn't work is because keladry of mindelan's actual role in this situation would be to convey and impose the requirement for state-mandated fantasy valentine's day on a population of war refugees

#relatedly what's their deal. does 'refugee' map onto something that would have existed in castle times comma unspecified #who were these people paying taxes to exactly #are they.... serfs who've been repossessed by the crown? well not entirely at least because some of them used to own mills.#so they were freehold. and their lords.... fled? the war? and now they pay taxes to the crown and are. fortress. servants.#they are farming. different land. attached to a fortress. that. works i guess #i mean clearly the intent of the book is that they are in fact getting refugee benefits but i have no idea how to assimilate that concept #new hope will eventually become the fortress/manor associated with a town or several towns???? but kel holds it in her #capacity as an extremely junior officer of the king's army not as her own land #fuck. i don't know ANYTHING about the past ever #i'm going to go look for publications about the effects of the hundred years war on farming and land ownership i guess.#sorry for posting thru it #bookbox #box opener

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