Post by SummerWolf on Nov 13, 2003 1:09:40 GMT -5
Well, I'm obviously an incest whore (and yes, I've seen cases where it went wrong, so back off), so take anything I say with a grain of salt.
From a storyteller's perspective, I agree with Iris and North2. It'd be incredibly stupid of the writers to suddenly write that conversation the way it was written, and then have nothing come of it but Claude saying Sylvia's cute.
From a scientist's perspective, although the Crusader's blood did spread out for a bit, it doesn't seem likely for Edda's priestly blood to spread out to commoners and orphans. Unless she was a bastard, and they dumped her at a monastery. That kind of behavior isn't totally unknown of (helllo, Florence), but the time is just....too right. IF Sylvia is an isolated case, we might be able to assume that she's a bastard. But her being at almost the same time as Claude's sister's abduction? You'd think there'd be some investigation on behaviors of court locals. Or if her mother is a whore somewhere, she's not likely going to end up alive. (And would Edda have whores, who's high classed enough to get a lordling?) Or, in another possibility, one of her parents IS a bastard, and another is a commoner. I don't know about the genetics of diluted blood, since we only get to see the F2 series of such pairings, but I think we can assume that they go away in time, except for major. (Judging from the degree of intermarriages. If Hilda marries into Freege, it can be assumed that there are a lot of that going around) but it is possible, if we're going to look at all cases.
But, back to a storyteller's perspective, that isn't likely. In writing, one uses as few needless facts and plot threads as possible. That conversation opens a plot thread about Claude and his sister and Sylvia and left it unresolved, ONE chapter after how it left Elto dead with Lachesis's name on his dying lips. At that point, the player's mind (unless they are against incest so much that they wouldn't believe EltoLache is 'something' and not brotherly/sisterly) is still fixated on the incest, since Elto's story is a major plot point. Any writer worth his paycheck knows this. From a story progression perspective, that's implied that they're brother and sister. If they're not, then the logical thing for the author to do is to CLARIFY something about it. Something as minor as having Claude say "Yeah, I remember how her hair was the most beautiful gold..." or something along the lines. And remember Nanna? She told Aless that "Mother and King Eltoshan wasn't wrong/strange, since they are from different mothers." Maybe that's how Grandbellians take it. As long as you're not both trueborns, you're fine. It is plausible.
I don't think the rate of bandits abducting a simple village girl would be high. Nobles should be higher, because they're worth something. Commoners would simply be killed.
There IS a hidden, deleted out conversation between Levin and Lynn, but since they're hidden, I don't know if it's triggered by Levin x Sylvia or not. I can give you Boo's version of it and the other hidden convos, although I WISH somebody can dump me the Japanese text. =P You know THAT translation is....well.....
From a storyteller's perspective, I agree with Iris and North2. It'd be incredibly stupid of the writers to suddenly write that conversation the way it was written, and then have nothing come of it but Claude saying Sylvia's cute.
From a scientist's perspective, although the Crusader's blood did spread out for a bit, it doesn't seem likely for Edda's priestly blood to spread out to commoners and orphans. Unless she was a bastard, and they dumped her at a monastery. That kind of behavior isn't totally unknown of (helllo, Florence), but the time is just....too right. IF Sylvia is an isolated case, we might be able to assume that she's a bastard. But her being at almost the same time as Claude's sister's abduction? You'd think there'd be some investigation on behaviors of court locals. Or if her mother is a whore somewhere, she's not likely going to end up alive. (And would Edda have whores, who's high classed enough to get a lordling?) Or, in another possibility, one of her parents IS a bastard, and another is a commoner. I don't know about the genetics of diluted blood, since we only get to see the F2 series of such pairings, but I think we can assume that they go away in time, except for major. (Judging from the degree of intermarriages. If Hilda marries into Freege, it can be assumed that there are a lot of that going around) but it is possible, if we're going to look at all cases.
But, back to a storyteller's perspective, that isn't likely. In writing, one uses as few needless facts and plot threads as possible. That conversation opens a plot thread about Claude and his sister and Sylvia and left it unresolved, ONE chapter after how it left Elto dead with Lachesis's name on his dying lips. At that point, the player's mind (unless they are against incest so much that they wouldn't believe EltoLache is 'something' and not brotherly/sisterly) is still fixated on the incest, since Elto's story is a major plot point. Any writer worth his paycheck knows this. From a story progression perspective, that's implied that they're brother and sister. If they're not, then the logical thing for the author to do is to CLARIFY something about it. Something as minor as having Claude say "Yeah, I remember how her hair was the most beautiful gold..." or something along the lines. And remember Nanna? She told Aless that "Mother and King Eltoshan wasn't wrong/strange, since they are from different mothers." Maybe that's how Grandbellians take it. As long as you're not both trueborns, you're fine. It is plausible.
I don't think the rate of bandits abducting a simple village girl would be high. Nobles should be higher, because they're worth something. Commoners would simply be killed.
There IS a hidden, deleted out conversation between Levin and Lynn, but since they're hidden, I don't know if it's triggered by Levin x Sylvia or not. I can give you Boo's version of it and the other hidden convos, although I WISH somebody can dump me the Japanese text. =P You know THAT translation is....well.....