Author Topic: The Marrocidenian war  (Read 553211 times)

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Re: The Marrocidenian war
« Reply #1305: February 09, 2013, 06:55:22 PM »
Um, no.

Noctus prima kids.

Knights were serial rapists too.

It's not called "raping and burning" for idle reasons.

Codes of Chivalry were drafted as prescriptive correctives to a problem– not as descriptive accounts of behavior. Now, certainly many knights did try to aspire to such things. But it's tough to rule the peasants without raping and mauling some here or there.
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