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N 20:51 | The Contested Ground 3 changes hist +6,518 [Madelineblackbart (3×)] | |||
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14:03 (cur | prev) +6,547 Madelineblackbart talk contribs (Created page with "{{Bible|section=2.5}} right|thumb|300x300px|The argument, as it is held every evening somewhere in the Known World. The argument over slavery in Teraell is old, earnest, and entirely unresolved. It is held in salons, guild halls, before magistrates, and on street corners, and no city-state has produced an answer. This page lays out the positions as the world holds them. Nothing here is settled, and the wiki does not settle it.{{Con...") Tag: Visual edit | |||
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N 20:39 | Teraell 6 changes hist +3,138 [Madelineblackbart (6×)] | |||
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12:15 (cur | prev) +2,691 Madelineblackbart talk contribs (Created page with "{{Bible|section=1}} thumb|right|300px|The Known World: six cities on one coast. '''Teraell''' is the name of the world in the Common Reason Tongue, and the name its people use for the planet they live on. The parts of it that have been explored and settled are called the '''Known Lands''' or the '''Known World'''. The present year is '''917''', in the age its people call '''the Age of Oath and Brass'''. == The Known World == The Known Wor...") | |||
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| N 16:59 | The Slave Market diffhist +8,117 Madelineblackbart talk contribs (Created page with "thumb|300x300px|A premium-sale catalog from Shining Reach. People keep them. Slaves are sold constantly in every city. Most sales are unremarkable transactions in a market building. A few are events. == The houses and the guild == A '''slaver house''' buys, holds, trains, and sells slaves — a business like any other, living on its reputation, because a buyer misled once does not return and tells everyone. An '''auctioneer guild''' runs the...") | ||||
| N 16:59 | Male Slaves diffhist +8,190 Madelineblackbart talk contribs (Created page with "Male slaves are a rarity, and none of the reasons is a rule against it. A man expected to fight is expected to die fighting, so few survive capture. The social cost of debt slavery is high enough that most men exhaust every reasonable avenue and a few that are not. And men whose nature is genuinely submissive enough to choose a collar are rare to begin with. Nothing in the law distinguishes them; once collared, a male slave is property exactly as a female slave is. What...") | ||||
| N 16:58 | The Network diffhist +2,683 Madelineblackbart talk contribs (Created page with "Separately from the bands there is a way for a person to reach a city instead. It is not an organization — no leadership, no membership, no infrastructure — but a scatter of individuals who help when they have the chance, most of whom do not know each other and are connected only by having reached the same conclusion independently. That is what makes it hard to break: there is nothing to destroy, and exposure takes out a link rather than a structure. == Who helps ==...") | ||||
| N 16:57 | Frizdoeen diffhist +7,381 Madelineblackbart talk contribs (Created page with "A slave who runs has almost nowhere to go. The broken circle makes her a slave in every city, the network that can close it is small and slow, and what is left is the Frontier. Most who run are caught within days; most who are not die out there. The survivors are the '''wild ones''' — a small number of a small number — and they are not alone. In the deep Frontier, in forest interiors and mountain valleys nobody visits and coastal wilderness far from any settlement, t...") | ||||
| N 16:57 | Hearth Keeper's Guild diffhist +1,779 Madelineblackbart talk contribs (Created page with "The '''Hearth Keeper's Guild''' — the ''Choema Gwyld'' — is the closest thing in the Known World to an institution for the protection of slaves, and it is not one. It is an association of owners holding each other to a standard, which is a narrower thing than an advocacy body and more effective than it sounds. Membership signals something; expulsion signals much more. Slaver houses prefer to sell to members, so the sanction has money and reputation behind it. When a...") | ||||
| N 16:57 | Protection and Its Failures diffhist +5,484 Madelineblackbart talk contribs (Created page with "A slave has no rights. She holds no Oathbond, cannot testify, cannot bring a case, and nothing is owed her. Everything her owner is obliged to do, she cannot enforce. What protects her is others. == How it works == By being seen. A household is watched continuously and without anyone intending it: neighbors see her at the door, guests see how she is spoken to, a physician sees her body, the market sees what she wears and whether she is thin. None of them is looking for...") | ||||
| N 16:56 | Nyvra and Children diffhist +3,754 Madelineblackbart talk contribs (Created page with "'''Nyvra''' is birth control — the preparation and the practice, and the only word for it. A physician writing a prescription and two women talking in a kitchen use the same word; the Known World does not find the subject taboo. One dose holds until it is reversed. Free women choose whether to take it and the vast majority do. Slaves are on it as a matter of course. == The reversal == ''Wynyvra'' is the dose that undoes it, from an apothecary and not cheap. Two things...") | ||||
| N 16:56 | Travel and Restraint diffhist +3,827 Madelineblackbart talk contribs (Created page with "Moving a slave is not complicated. What varies is whether she travels with someone or is shipped. == Alone == She does not travel alone, and neither does anyone else with any sense. The Fyndrecht is part of it: a slave found alone beyond the walls belongs to whoever finds her, and nothing about her collar prevents that. Usually she is returned — the collar carries her owner's sigil, name, and address, and the Oathbond asks it of the finder — but a finder who wou...") | ||||
| N 16:55 | Health, Injury, and Correction diffhist +7,393 Madelineblackbart talk contribs (Created page with "A slave's health is her owner's expense and obligation, and the two are not the same thing. The expense is what treatment costs. The obligation is that she gets it. == Health and injury == ; Telling him : She is required to say when she is unwell. It is not a favor and not a complaint; looking after her health is part of what she is for, and a slave who hid a fever until she collapsed has failed at something. She is generally believed, because the alternative is a hous...") | ||||
| N 16:55 | What Each Owes the Other diffhist +3,782 Madelineblackbart talk contribs (Created page with "The arrangement between ''Jor'' and ''daes'' is not one-sided, though it is not equal. Both owe the other something, and what each owes is different in kind. == What he owes == ; Provision : Food, clothing, shelter, medicine, and rest — everything her keeping requires, at whatever standard he can afford, and that standard is visible to everyone who looks at her. ; Judgment : She has handed him the decisions. He must make them, make them well, and keep making them. A...") | ||||
| N 16:54 | Household Rank diffhist +1,109 Madelineblackbart talk contribs (Created page with "Where a household keeps several slaves, one of them is the '''''senpei'''''. She is whoever the owner has put there — usually the oldest or longest-serving, because experience is what the position needs, though the choice is entirely his. She trains the others, answers for the work, and gives instructions that hold; her word stands in for his, because she knows what he wants better than any other slave in the house and was chosen for exactly that. A junior slave who t...") | ||||
| N 16:54 | Kinds of Service diffhist +3,441 Madelineblackbart talk contribs (Created page with "There is no fixed set of slaves. There is a fixed set of things households need done, and a slave does whichever she was purchased for. Roles are assigned by skill and temperament, which is the obvious way to buy and is also the philosophy applied: placing a person where her nature fits is what the whole arrangement claims to do, and a slave visibly wrong for her work is a mark against whoever put her there. The role is advertised at sale by the ribbon system (see The...") | ||||
| N 16:54 | A Slave's Day diffhist +5,309 Madelineblackbart talk contribs (Created page with "No two slaves' days are alike; what a slave does depends entirely on what she was bought to do. This is the shape a day has rather than its contents. == Waking == Most slaves wake before their owner — someone has to light the fire, make breakfast, and wake him, and in most households that is the same person. In a large house a companion may wake when he does or later; the fire is somebody else's morning. == Hair == Done every day whether she has bathed or not. A work...") | ||||
| N 16:53 | Commands and Forms diffhist +7,478 Madelineblackbart talk contribs (Created page with "A '''command''' is a single word that produces an action. They exist because a household should not need a conversation to run, and because a word carries across a room where an explanation does not. A '''form''' is a shape the body holds; the commands name them. Most forms are never commanded — a household that had to be told every time would be a household in difficulty. Forms exist so that nothing has to be said and things still get done; the commands are for except...") | ||||
| N 16:52 | Address and Titles diffhist +4,684 Madelineblackbart talk contribs (Created page with "Some of the most spoken words in the Spraecha are the words of address. See also Common Reason Tongue#Address. == Addressing the free == ; Jor : What a slave calls any free person, without distinction — a magistrate, a guild master, an elder, and a child of the house are all ''Jor''. ''Jwygor'' in the formal register. ; Moejor : What a slave calls her own owner: ''Jor'' with the possessive ''Moe-'' fused on, and among the most frequently spoken words in the langu...") | ||||
| N 16:52 | Manumission diffhist +6,573 Madelineblackbart talk contribs (Created page with "alt=woman in a single plain wrapped garment standing before an elder and a priest in a hall of red-brown stone and carved wood, with witnesses at the side and an opened iron ring lying on a table. If the modera|thumb|300x300px|The completion of the circle. Witnesses attest that it happened and was lawful. '''Manumission''' is the completion of the circle. The broken circle at the nape of her neck is closed, and from that moment she is free in...") | ||||
| N 16:50 | Becoming a Slave diffhist +6,926 Madelineblackbart talk contribs (Created page with "There are several ways into slavery. Two account for most slaves, and the defenders of the system point to one of those. == Voluntary submission == The most common route and the one the whole philosophy rests on. Every person is encouraged to follow their own nature, and a person whose nature is to serve will often present themselves and ask to be collared. Within one's own city it is a legal act with a process and a record: Clearhold examines the applicant and records...") | ||||
| N 16:50 | Koeler diffhist +1,038 Madelineblackbart talk contribs (Created page with "The '''Koeler''' is the mark: a broken circle tattooed at the back of the neck, where the collar sits and where no free person wears anything. Unlike the Sigring it cannot be removed, which is the point of it. A slave without her collar is still marked, and a magistrate settling a dispute looks at the nape rather than the throat. On manumission the circle is completed rather than struck out. A freed person carries a closed circle for the rest of her life, and an...") | ||||
| N 16:50 | Sigring diffhist +2,528 Madelineblackbart talk contribs (Created page with "alt=Two neck rings on a workbench, one plain iron and one worked silver, each with an engraved emblem plate at the front and a small brass clockwork clasp at the back, beside a maker's tools and a pattern ledger.|thumb|300x300px|Plain iron, worked silver, or ornament matched to the household: none of it makes it more or less a collar. The '''Sigring''' is the collar. Worn at the throat and never removed, it bears the owner's The Sigil|Oathbond sigi...") | ||||
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| N 12:54 | Slavery diffhist +3,414 Madelineblackbart talk contribs (Created page with "A slave in Teraell is '''property''': owned outright and transferable by sale, gift, inheritance, or seizure, in the same legal category as a Dorath or a house. Not a person with reduced rights, not a servant under a hard contract, not a citizen of a lower order. == The two marks == Every route into slavery ends in the same two things. The Sigring is the collar, worn at the throat and never removed, bearing the owner's Oathbond sigil; it says who she belongs to...") | ||||
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12:44 (cur | prev) +4,478 Madelineblackbart talk contribs (Created page with "{{Bible|section=3}} right|thumb|300x300px|A sigil: emblem for the family, color for the city, accent for the station. The '''Oathbond''' is the spine of Teraell. It is a free person's standing: who answers for them, what they answer for, and what they must keep doing to hold it. It is not a possession, a rank, or a document. It is what a free person ''is''. == What it is == A person is born into their family's and city's Oathbond....") Tag: Visual edit | |||
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11:35 Madelineblackbart talk contribs deleted page The Slave Market (content was: "{{Bible|section=7.14}} thumb|300x300px|A premium-sale catalog from Shining Reach. People keep them. Slaves are sold constantly in every city. Most sales are unremarkable transactions in a market building. A few are events. == The houses and the guild == A '''slaver house''' buys, holds, trains, and sells slaves — a b...", and the only contributor was "Madelineblackbart" (talk)) | ||||
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11:34 Madelineblackbart talk contribs deleted page Slavery (content was: "{{Bible|section=7.1}}A slave in Teraell is '''property''': owned outright and transferable by sale, gift, inheritance, or seizure, in the same legal category as a Dorath or a house. Not a person with reduced rights, not a servant under a hard contract, not a citizen of a lower order. == The two marks == Every route into slavery ends in the sa...", and the only contributor was "Madelineblackbart" (talk)) | ||||
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11:33 Madelineblackbart talk contribs deleted page Manumission (content was: "{{Bible|section=7.11}} thumb|300x300px|The completion of the circle. Witnesses attest that it happened and was lawful. '''Manumission''' is the completion of the circle. The broken circle at the nape of her neck is closed, and from that moment she is free in every city under the Pact. It can be don...", and the only contributor was "Madelineblackbart" (talk)) | ||||