11-27-2019, 06:24 PM | #41 |
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Re: How much for royal blood?
I know . My Aunt's husband is . They met indirectly via ancestry website/forum .
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11-27-2019, 06:45 PM | #42 | ||
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Re: How much for royal blood?
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11-27-2019, 06:50 PM | #43 |
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Re: How much for royal blood?
Okay got it & thanks .
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11-27-2019, 10:21 PM | #44 |
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Re: How much for royal blood?
I'm a Lord of Sealand; does that count as noble blood?
I can see different points here. But let's face it, in real life I don't think there's some genetic test than can say "The noble blood of France, England, Germany, Japan, Ethiopia, India, etc. all has these characteristics, and the commoner blood of those countries all has these other characteristics." As has been pointed out, "royalty" was often decided by whoever killed whom. The assumption I'm going by is that for a fantasy campaign there is such a thing as "royal blood." Maybe it's not genetic; maybe the gods bless royalty and their descendants. That could be an interesting discussion of its own. I appreciate the different perspectives that have been offered. Again, I realize I'm asking a completely subjective question, but the concepts presented here have given me a lot of ideas. So thanks!
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11-28-2019, 03:33 AM | #45 | |
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Alternatively you could use the descent model, tracing your royal blood from divine figures as the pre-Christian kings of Europe did (whether that was Odin, Bel or Mars...). This makes heredity important and would argue for concentrating the blood by inbreeding … this would take fantasy as we know it doesn't work in real life (unless it's just not concentrated enough - lab rats, for example, have apparently come out the other side of inbreeding compression...). Mixing the two might allow a certain number of generations removed from a royal investiture to have (declining) levels of power, but would still favour in breeding unless you have a lot of royal houses about. So, this being a GURPS board, we end up giving the helpful advice of "first figure out your world building, then chose what rules apply". |
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11-28-2019, 03:37 AM | #46 |
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Re: How much for royal blood?
And pretty much anyone from Europe can claim descent from Charlemagne … as that wombat-ghost put it in Digger, concerning the coincidence of the main character being his descendant "not much of a stretch, I had five sons a thousand years ago … do the math".
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11-28-2019, 04:07 AM | #47 |
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Re: How much for royal blood?
I would've thought that royals would be opposed to creating a market for their blood. They don't want people thinking there's any profit in kidnapping one to keep in a dungeon and milk indefinitely.
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11-28-2019, 04:26 AM | #48 | |
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If they don't do that, and if royal bastards have royal blood, the best royal to keep thus in durance might be one whom the authorities don't know exists.
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11-28-2019, 06:38 AM | #49 | |
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Granted, she has to raise the child(ren) into dysfunctional adults who think their purpose in life is getting bled every few months to support their aging mother, but that's doable. Hardly moral or ethical, of course, but that's kind of a given with the scenario.
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11-28-2019, 07:11 AM | #50 |
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Re: How much for royal blood?
In Charlaine Harris's True Blood Novel universe , the Royal Houses & minor noble houses of Europe & beyond make a ton of cash from selling their blood to the revealed Vampires .
Not sure if it was in the books or graphic novel (possibly fan fiction?) , but $3,000 for magnum of top quality 'Swedish' or $400 for 'blended Polish' . In a parody of wine tasting connoisseurs , conversations were something like "Ah you can take the Victoria in that devine vintage!" & "Reasonable Bourbon infusion notes." You could imagine Discworld Vampires setting up business ventures around this sort of theme !
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