A battle without swords, Lady Bella or Protectorship in Treve ...

May 2012

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May 28 - Memorial Day

Ok, im just going to post here because from what i understand it theres some confusion about the rights of free women within a city and her caste.

Ok for one, Free women are treasured and highly respected they have the protection of the homestone and the rights it offers. So Bella has every right to the will. This whole business about male relatives and male caste members is the biggest load of un resourced guessing ive ever seen. I dont mean to be mocking but when i see this line about male relatives always being in charge ill refer to Witness of Gor, and forgive me for not looting through books at 8am but if you dont trust me ill get extracts here later. A woman is kidnapped from her city by treve and demanded a ransom. Her brothers dont pay. Now its deliberately mentioned that the reason her brothers are given the ransom isnt because their her next of kin infact their her younger brothers, she is the leader of a merchant company dealing in jewelry which she became leader of after her father died. She ran the company and was its driving force her brothers do not pay the ransom so that they inherit her wealth and power. Notice what i said there oldest male doesnt matter in terms of inheriting a family business.

Another example straight from fighting slave of Gor several women in that book all owned large ranches. They were each rich and powerful with no male representitive or companion. They were each equal members in their caste.

Women on Gor particularly high caste women have every right to wealth and jobs as men they may have some limitations in caste work but in no means do they have to obey male relatives. Nomads of Gor, a female baker has lost her brothers and her father and her family owned a bakers shop. She hires men from the caste of bakers to work in her shop as she runs it.

I could go on also about the business of this will. Such things as coins wealth wills etc would fall under merchant law its quite common for one city's merchants to write a note of credit where in another city a man might take money from a bank with that note. To say that a will wouldnt be honoured is petty as documents of slavery made in one city is honoured in another.