Some incoherent mumbling about LoZ: Twilight Princess
This is all elanaranne's fault. I deny any responsibility for my getting sucked back into Legend of Zelda fandom when I have a ton of work to do. Nope. I'm not choosing to procrastinate, it is being forced upon me. Curse you, Naranne, destroyer of productivity.
(I'm pretty sure it's abundantly clear already, but just to be on the safe side: I'm only teasing and don't actually blame you for my inability to get anything done today)
(I'm pretty sure it's abundantly clear already, but just to be on the safe side: I'm only teasing and don't actually blame you for my inability to get anything done today)
- Wealth, Class, Status
- Viability of commercial establishments for games/entertainment at Castle Town (STAR) and Lake Hylia (Rafting, being shot out of a cannon) suggest existence of a fairly broad set of people with disposable income.
- Important to note: at no point in game do we actually encounter hereditary nobility outside the queen. No evidence that if there is hereditary nobility they exercise formal control over territories or land.
- Shad, Auru, suggest however that the crown is perhaps very active in patronage in scholarly pursuits. No evidence of scholarship sponsored outside Castletown. Scholarly positions as quasi-nobility? (Important question: how much of Sheikah lore survives from OoT era? How well do Hylians know their own history?) To what extent does the monarch have authority to confer status on current non-nobility.
- Gender Norms, Family
- Positive law.
- Mythos, Monarchical thought
- Popular opinion, and its influence
- I have no damn idea how this works, the best I can say is that there doesn't appear to be a printing press in Hyrule yet and the elite may exercise a tremendous amount of influence on what knowledge is public, making popular opinion more malleable to elites than in our days.
- Miscellany/outstanding questions
- To what extent are political elites (monarch/others) involved in promulgating doctrine (religious/academic)? How, in what circumstances? (Oddly, we see Princess Zelda spoken of in overwhelmingly secular terms, despite being one of the Goddesses' elect. Possibly Hyrule never developed organized religion in the same way as our world because the Goddesses made far less use of intermediaries and when they want a person to know or do something they see to it themselves? So maybe not so much religion, academic/scholastic doctrine is an open problem)