[Discuss] Stripping characters of their nobility

[Thomas Dalton]

> Well, there is two problems that I've seen.  A:  You're only given 250
> characters to describe why you are doing it.  That's not even CLOSE to
> being enough to do it.  B:  What defines being a noble over a peasant?
> Dictionaries define nobleman as being of the highest social class.
> Well, why can't you be kicked out of the highest social class?  As I
> explained to Thomas, in realm, why would someone question someones
> birthright as a noble when every noble in Europe was related to every
> other noble in Europe, they were all inbred.  There isn't a single line
> that wasn't related to another line, even from different countries.  If
> you questioned their birthright it would be the same as questioning your
> own birthright.  It is impossible in BM to prove that someone's not
> actually from a family in battlemaster because they are from that
> family, it's not like in Europe when they could prove it because some
> people weren't.  So to me you're questioning the person based on their
> actions, not their actual birthright.  Also when using the option you do
> get mini-protested by the game.  I lost 7 honour and 3 prestige with the
> event that Thomas is talking about.  4 honour and 4 prestige the second
> time.  It already isn't a light option even without the two (maybe three
> with a silent protest) protests.

Why do you keep repeating that "everyone was inbred" argument when
I've explained 3 times already (this is the 4th) that you question
someone's nobility by calling them a bastard, not by saying they're
lying about their parents nobility. You can have 2 half-brothers one
of which is a nobleman and the other isn't, as their father was
married to one's mother but not to the other's. Those mothers could
have been sisters themselves, meaning the half-brothers are both
descended from the same set of 4 grandparents, all of which could be
noble, but if one of them was illegitimate, that one isn't a nobleman.