[Discuss] "Strip titles" recommendations

[Timothy Collett]

On Nov 5, 2007, at 10:00 PM, Rob McDonald wrote:
> Why not just have it based on a vote by the nobles? Nobility has to  
> be recognised by many people for you to be considered a noble. If  
> only a minority supported the king, and he claimed someone to be a  
> commoner, why should everyone suddenly treat the accused as such?

Because the players are only a minority of the nobles.

Remember, we are the elite: the nobles with ambition, power, drive,  
money, etc.  There are thousands of lesser nobles whose collective  
opinions are the ones that dictate honour, prestige, etc.

And nobility, if you will recall, is not even decided by opinion.  It  
is decided by bloodline.  Whether or not you *believe* in that  
bloodline is another matter, but it *is* decided by something that is  
documentable fact.

Timothy Collett
Anaris Family

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"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an  
hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.  
That's relativity."
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