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25 minutes ago, Quantus said:

Aha, but without an established family lineage you'd default to a Tenner, which is basically the same quality of life as the average Darkeyes.

Except that you get paid twice as much money, and are allowed to use a sword.

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15 minutes ago, Llstml said:

Except that you get paid twice as much money, and are allowed to use a sword.

I didnt remember the Sword thing at all, but I thought that the Half-pay rule was for Slaves vs Freemen, not for Light vs Darkeyes.  Coppermind has no mention either way, Ill see what I can find. 

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2 minutes ago, Quantus said:

I didnt remember the Sword thing at all, but I thought that the Half-pay rule was for Slaves vs Freemen, not for Light vs Darkeyes.  Coppermind has no mention either way, Ill see what I can find. 

It is just Slaves vs Freemen, my bad. I was getting it mixed up with when it is mentioned that Kaladin is getting paid three times as much as a regular soldier in WoR.

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On 1/15/2020 at 0:27 PM, Quantus said:

Aha, but without an established family lineage you'd default to a Tenner, which is basically the same quality of life as the average Darkeyes.

Still your chances of being made a slave or something along those lines is much lower and life just tends to be easier if you have light eyes.

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Probably Purelake or Reshi, they seem very relaxed and give off an island kind of idea. Azir seems nice, but their laws are kinda weird, even though I kinda like the order. 

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If I could change some things then depends. I'd love to be a duelist, and if i was Alethekar seems like the place to be. I'm not positive if my current eyes would allow for that though, they act oddly and sometimes seem pretty light and other times darker. Also not a huge fan of the whole vorinism thing, but I could deal if I had to. Otherwise i'd probably choose Azir or Kharbranth. If I would have access to the Palaneum and what not I'd love to be in Kharbranth, would never run out of anything to read. Azir, seems appealing because of the laws and everything. 

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On 1/15/2020 at 3:14 PM, Quantus said:

I didnt remember the Sword thing at all, but I thought that the Half-pay rule was for Slaves vs Freemen, not for Light vs Darkeyes.  Coppermind has no mention either way, Ill see what I can find. 

Lighteyes(even teners) are payed based on their rank same as darkeyes.  The Vorin legal code establishes clearly how much each group makes and what kind of work they can be expected to do while employed.

On 1/18/2020 at 2:21 PM, The Deity said:

Probably Purelake or Reshi, they seem very relaxed and give off an island kind of idea. Azir seems nice, but their laws are kinda weird, even though I kinda like the order. 

They have one or two culture specific laws but other then that can you point to any actually weird ones?

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1 minute ago, Karger said:

Lighteyes(even teners) are payed based on their rank same as darkeyes.  The Vorin legal code establishes clearly how much each group makes and what kind of work they can be expected to do while employed.

This is certainly true.  I guess my point is that the Lighteyes/Darkeyes split is not a simple Nobility Vs Serf sort of model, there's a more gradual distribution than that, and in the middle there is a lot of overlap.  That's not to say being a Lighteyes certainly is a leg up and bypasses an awful lot of potential caste system hardship, but being Lighteyes alone doesnt guarantee an easy or even comfortable life (despite what Kaladin originally thought).  

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5 minutes ago, Karger said:

They have one or two culture specific laws but other then that can you point to any actually weird ones?

Gay people have to file for social reassignment, which I'm pretty sure means they have to transition.

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17 minutes ago, Bearer of Agonies said:

Gay people have to file for social reassignment, which I'm pretty sure means they have to transition.

That is a pretty weird one yeah.

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In Azir, you'd find something like existed in middle-ages India. (Some societies there had this curious system where a gay man would be given "social reassignment" so that he was treated like a woman, dressed like one, and had relations with men--even if he wasn't actually transsexual.)

 

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My options would be Azir, Purelake, Alethkar, Shinovar, or jah keved. Azir would be fun and good, problem is not sure i would like all the restrictions, i would have a hard time keeping strictly to them, purelake well it wouldnt be good for books but it does seem peaceful and rather enjoyable, Alethkar sounds fun, except the wars it seems quite nice and rural, although i certainly wouldnt really follow vorinism as i like to read withought being a slave. Shinovar because of how it is similar to earth and jah keved because it seems interesting from what we've seen. So Azir, or Alethkar, not sure what alethi rank i would be my eyes aren't dark but aren't too light.

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