I haven't pushed this point in Sythyry's Journal, but in the World Tree sourcebook, we discuss slavery on the World Tree. It's a minor facet of Ketherian prime civilization, and has a rather fuzzy boundary with other low social statuses. However, it's not the lowest social status around. For most slaves, it's simply a job with crappy terms of employment, slightly worse than most people who have that job. There are several worse facets of Ketherian prime civilization.
And yes, that's in part to perplex whatever admirers of the D&D-crossover novels where fighting slavers is the greatest good possible, and others who think that the honest-to-gods awful variations of slavery that have shown up in the last few centuries (possibly together with the ridiculous ones of Gor) are the only choices.
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Date: 2005-11-25 03:13 am (UTC)I haven't pushed this point in Sythyry's Journal, but in the World Tree sourcebook, we discuss slavery on the World Tree. It's a minor facet of Ketherian prime civilization, and has a rather fuzzy boundary with other low social statuses. However, it's not the lowest social status around. For most slaves, it's simply a job with crappy terms of employment, slightly worse than most people who have that job. There are several worse facets of Ketherian prime civilization.
And yes, that's in part to perplex whatever admirers of the D&D-crossover novels where fighting slavers is the greatest good possible, and others who think that the honest-to-gods awful variations of slavery that have shown up in the last few centuries (possibly together with the ridiculous ones of Gor) are the only choices.