>>515359432>because it was taught to all university students and anyone who spent any time studying in a abbey or other religious institutionDo you mean to reeinforce my argument?
>that’s a lot of people with working Latin who are nevertheless utterly irrelevant if you’re a snooty chamberlain of a high lord.If a man in rags approached you, claiming
>to be of noble birth>to be a messenger of the enemy requesting parley>to have fallen victim to bandits in your wartorn realmand recited Latin at a level well beyond that of a beggar or simple peasantry, you'd not capture him and investigate the matter?
What are the greatest risks you take with either descision? If you capture him:
>you execute or throw him out on another dayIf you let him go:
>he returns to the league of lords and the deal, that you have had no buisness negotiating to begin with, is voided>he dies enroute back home and his disappearance is blamed on your lord, thus not just voiding the deal but escalating the conflictThere's a limit to how comically evil, oblivious, obstinate and retarded antagonists (and protaganists for matter) can be to facilitate the plot. If you exceed that limit, then the plot turns into a contrived mess and an incoherent sequence of unnecessary drama and conflict, and the characters regress into soulless, inagentic plot devices.
