[Discuss] Dwilight, SMA and Powergaming

[Samuel Knowlton]

>> The Oath of Fealty was a serious matter that was not entered into nor 
>> revoked lightly.

I wrote that page on the wiki.

It would have a very different application in a colonial place like 
Dwilight. Remember that, during pretty much the entire medieval era, there 
was no 'colonization.' That didn't happen until early renaissance. You had 
the Crusades, sure, which did involve nobles leaving home and starting new 
in the Holy Land for a while, and they probably had all kinds of short-term 
deals with other nobles in the area that weren't exactly oaths of fealty - 
but even then, it wasn't 'travel through the wilderness on your way 
somewhere.' The Holy Land was a lot smaller than Dwilight.

I don't know any details about what's going on in this specific case, but 
you can't just cut-and-paste the context of an oath of fealty in Medieval 
Europe, where one of the largest problems was primogeniture and a shortage 
of land to go around, to Dwilight, with the completely opposite problem. The 
oath might be the same but the sheer opportunity of a place like Dwilight 
would make a lot of nobles say and do things they might not otherwise do 
somewhere like FEI where land is in short supply.