Message #74271

[Anaris]

But Anaris..what about SMA? Wouldn't it be blatanlty obvious that during war time things like monuments and other superficial items would be frowned upon. Now this isn't an excuse for peace time granted, but well aurvandil won't be seeing peace for a while probably.

Ah...no. No, no, no. Very no.

You've got to remember, in the real medieval period, the idea of a "realm" as a true unified nation just didn't exist. There were so many more personal agendas and conflicting loyalties, and so much more politicking that had to be done just to convince any given Lord to bring his knights to the war, that it barely resembles even the most rigorous roleplaying of it today.

If you want to get picky about SMA, a knight's right to build a monument to who or whatever he pleased would probably be just about as strong as his duty to provide troops to his liege-lord when called upon in time of war. He'd almost be expected to be trying to either promote himself, or curry favour with whoever he was building the monument to.

No, Lanyon; sorry to break it to you, but the kind of unity that Aurvandil displays is, at best, just barely within the bounds of what could be considered "acceptable" under SMA, and at times I would say it definitely strays over them. It's definitely not the kind of behaviour that one would expect under SMA.