In the Necromancer Empire, the Caliphate of Azithan ...
The lifeless produce sufficient grain and wheat/rice/corn to feed everyone. A week's worth (50 cups) of flour is handed after church services. Services are three times a week. Much of the rest of the time, the priests are tending to their flock.
Ensuring the lifeless do as they ought is a major occupation among the Faithful. A major publication, The Art of Pure Reason, was published in four volumes. These hefty tomes cover much of the nuanced art of lifeless control, but do so at a level most cannot understand.
The Art (as it is often called) does not concern itself with such high level commands as Attack, Defend, Carry, or even Stop. Rather, it delves into how these commands work through the lifeless host. These rhythms form together to create commands that the population is familiar with.
This treatise was a major breakthrough; the priest who wrote the book was immediately offered a position in the House of Lords. Before, he was a Don -- a sequestered priest who has chosen a life of research rather than leadership. Don Kuth accepted the title of Baron.
(With apologies to Donald Knuth. Who, so far as i know, is not a necromancer.)
As per usual, ask questions and I shall attempt to elaborate. Also, give elaboration your own self!
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(And no Apologies or fucks given to Immanual Kant, who is probably a lich.)
ReplyDeleteHow does the (known) need to have acolytes who can understand these sorts of texts inform early childhood education (if any) in the Caliphate?
ReplyDeleteTony Lower-Basch Great question!
ReplyDeleteSunday school for kids: So that parents of children who are too young to be a part of the Faithful may participate in Service, there is a day car service during the services. This doubles as teaching kiddoes what the Church needs them to know.
Those who show inclination or desire can continue learning more as they get older, and can come to other learning events through the week. The Church does not need most people to be able to read much Latin or whatever, but every Parish ultimately needs to create new ministers, handlers, and such.
Seems like a natural situation for using education (or the lack of it) to reinforce class divides from one generation to the next.
ReplyDeleteWell, sure. Who do you think gets selected for additional training?
ReplyDeletePeople still be people.
But, since the worse backbreaking labor is down by the lifeless, there's a greater chance of social mobility than in a normal feudal state.
ReplyDeleteA realization this morning: the lifeless don't do all the agriculture. Instead, the church has developed a vertical monopoly from wheat/rice/corn/other grains to flour. The Church is not concerned with growing lifestock, mining salt (though, assuredly, rented lifeless do just that), or fruit.
The church is by default vegan. Unfortunately, scurvy and anemia. People absolutely eat fruits and veg and lifestock, they just are not produced by the church. There's even a demand for higher quality goods, made by human artisanal labor.