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02-13-2014, 01:33 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-13-2014, 07:09 PM by The Philosopher.)
By Lore, only wealthy Mulan nobles ever even get the chance to be Captains or above.
Thay is not a meritocracy. Nobles and Red Wizards have all the power. The highest a Thayan Rashemi could hope to reach is Thayan Knight or Lieutenant in the Legion, perhaps Captain if exceptionally gifted.
That said.
Mulani are already an overplayed ethnicity in the server, precisely because it is the only ethnicity that has any chance of getting anywhere socially and gets all the chances and the opportunities. There are a pittance of Rashemi or Rashemi-descended people around, even though they are the greater numbers, easily, both in the Legions and in almost every corner of the lower and middle classes of Thay.
We have a decent amount of high-ranking foreigner humans to boot walking around, as well.
The picture one gets is that players will follow the path of least resistance in order to draw more enjoyable play. Personally, I would not like to see a server running rampant with Mulani everywhere, yet that is exactly what restrictions of this kind are pushing us towards. Few people want to play a gimped-by-default character. And I can't say I can blame them, one doesn't usually engage in roleplay to feel utterly disempowered.
The question beckons; how far down the rabbit hole of authenticity do we want to go? Because if we were to do so to the fullest, we might as well do away with the notoriety system altogether and make playing Mulani characters an application-only thing.
Thay is not a meritocracy. Nobles and Red Wizards have all the power. The highest a Thayan Rashemi could hope to reach is Thayan Knight or Lieutenant in the Legion, perhaps Captain if exceptionally gifted.
That said.
Mulani are already an overplayed ethnicity in the server, precisely because it is the only ethnicity that has any chance of getting anywhere socially and gets all the chances and the opportunities. There are a pittance of Rashemi or Rashemi-descended people around, even though they are the greater numbers, easily, both in the Legions and in almost every corner of the lower and middle classes of Thay.
We have a decent amount of high-ranking foreigner humans to boot walking around, as well.
The picture one gets is that players will follow the path of least resistance in order to draw more enjoyable play. Personally, I would not like to see a server running rampant with Mulani everywhere, yet that is exactly what restrictions of this kind are pushing us towards. Few people want to play a gimped-by-default character. And I can't say I can blame them, one doesn't usually engage in roleplay to feel utterly disempowered.
The question beckons; how far down the rabbit hole of authenticity do we want to go? Because if we were to do so to the fullest, we might as well do away with the notoriety system altogether and make playing Mulani characters an application-only thing.