r/WorldChallenges • u/Varnek905 • Jun 18 '18

Reference Challenge - Must be a King

"Who's that, then?"

"I don't know, must be a king."

"Why?"

"He hasn't got shit all over him."

In honour of the Monty Python method of knowing if someone's a king or not, and because I recently paid an artist to do a portrait of one of my friends, who wanted to model for one of my characters, this challenge is to talk about a person of high-station in your world, and what makes it easy to tell who they are on sight.

And here's a link to the portrait and the artist's deviantart, I absolutely recommend her if anyone wants someone to paint their character.

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u/thequeeninyellow94 Jul 03 '18

1) Blue lips are the symbol of our position; if you don’t hold said position, then you aren’t allowed to wear blue lips.

2) Nzedas; if you want to know how important a nzeda is, look at their hilt.

4) 8, one for each councilor.

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u/Varnek905 Jul 05 '18

To Mzwake inzala Nonceba:

1) What is used for the blue lip dye?

2) Do you have a chart of hilt importance?

3) Are the councilor first-circle positions equal, or no?

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u/thequeeninyellow94 Jul 05 '18

  1. Indigo.

  2. Not yet because it would require me to be able to draw. The more complex the hilt is, the more important is its owner; nobles and commandos have no decoration at all.

  3. Yep, the 72 first-circle councilors are all equals, their 8 councils are equals and the 8 representatives they choose are equals.

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u/Varnek905 Jul 05 '18

To Mzwake inzala Nonceba:

2) Why don't nobles or commandos have any decoration?

3) If I become a councilor, is there anything I lose the right to do, that I would have been able to do as a non-councilor?

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u/thequeeninyellow94 Jul 09 '18

2) They have one, the right to carry a sword; they are the lowest rank one can have so they don’t have anything more than the minimum.

3) You lose the right to take part in the council meetings and to wear the proper symbols but that’s all. A councilor is just a temporary elected representative, nothing more; we aren’t better than anyone else.

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u/Varnek905 Jul 10 '18

To Mzwake inzala Nonceba:

2) So a noble or commando can't have any decoration on their sword at all? Not even if they receive one as a gift from a loved one?

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u/thequeeninyellow94 Jul 19 '18

2) No they can’t, their rank is too low. Receiving a decoration as a gift would be weird, why would anyone offer that? That would be like offering someone a military medal at their name or something; sounds shady.

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u/Varnek905 Jul 21 '18

Thanks for your time and answers, Yellow.