About literacy...
There's a character in my realm who writes/speaks very, very bad. I don't know if it's because he is trying to represent an accent, or that his character doesn't know to write, or that he just isn't good with the language himself, or any combination of these. I don't know, and I honestly don't really care. He never speaks unless spoken to directly in public, but he's a very important asset to me. So really, I just plan on using (in a mutually beneficial way) him at the best of his abilities, while reducing the number of times he must speak in public, especially to foreigners. Totally seems like something that would be done in the times. Not every nobles had an IQ of 120, you know. And it's not because a person (read: character) has poor communication skills that he's completely useless and must be driven off the island.
