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Something simple to get me out of artblock

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yeah let's have more gifs of this, why not. you know you can't stop me. you know you don't want to.

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samorost

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Желание создать новый аккаунт всё выше

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Is Henry a page or a squire or an armiger? And what is the difference exactly?*

I've been waiting for a while for someone more educated to make post like this but since no one has done it yet... Henry has been called interchangeable Hans' page and Hans' squire** and it's been bothering me a bit for a while.

To make it very simple, a page (páže) was usually a boy from age 7-14 sent to court to get education, doing job of servant, messenger and maybe learning how to fight but he's not expected to partake in any battles. Page is at most taking care of horses and weapons and usually they are not even assigned to one knight or lord in particular.

From age of 14 page usually becomes a squire (panoš) and usually serves just one knight or lord, taking care of all the equipments, horses continuing their studies and training with weapon and accompanying their lord or knight to battles while still also taking care of all the other possible needs of the lord or knight they are serving. At age 21 they can make their oath and be knighted after performing some knightly deed. The squires were usually noble born as in medival times only noblemen could be knights.

Then there's also an armiger/armorer/shield-bearer (zbrojnoš), as far as I've checked, Henry is not called that in English only in Czech dubbing. The role of armiger is similar to one of squire, the difference is that as far as I understood a man of any social status could be an armiger. The difference between an armiger and a squire is that armiger is not of a noble class and also he mostly only took care of their knight/lord equipment and served them in battles without all the additional tasks squire was expected to perform.

So now to the question - what exactly is Henry? Technically by all the things he's performing the role Henry is assuming is Hans Capon's life, by all means he should be called his squire. His role in what tasks he's doing is more versatile than the one of armiger and he's fighting by his side and too old to be a page.

Now to the questions everyone in the fandom keeps asking - could Henry ever become a knight? Well, actually, yes! As far as I know from my research though bastards of nobles could not get any inherentence from their noble parent, their relations should be enough to allow them to be knighted if they proved themselves.

So only the reason he would be called a page is if the way to knighthood really required one to go through all the stages "page - squire - knight" and so even though Henry is older than page is supposed to be, he would need to assume the role of one to progress further, since his circumstances are quite unusual.

*Or does the game elaborate on that more somewhere and I've just missed it? (there's one dialogue check with Klara regarding knighthood but it does not really clear Henry's position much...)

**at least in Czech version he's called both his page (páže) and armiger (zbrojnoš) and I'd swear he's called squire (panoš) at some point too (well, if nothing else I know for certain Henry calls himself that at least once in kcd1). Feel free to correct me if he's never actually called squire in English original though.

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But it really is so brilliant making Henry Radzig's bastard. Because at core it is still a story of nobody of just a peasant who got accidentally due to unfortunate circumstances involved in things way above his level. It is no story of glory, just a average guy fighting battles which he should not be involved, he is at core still no glorious hero, no knight in shining armor. But there is that plausible deniability of which are the nobles sometimes treating him better than they would otherwise early in the game and why he should play a role in this conflict and if you wish to you can imagine him as a noble hero and as far as I know he could technically be knighted one day. It's so much not the point of his story, but it adds just yet another layer to it though...

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the silliest lads in all of bohemia

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henry leaning down while astride his horse to give hans a kiss accidentally loses his balance and falls onto hans instead

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im sooooo obsessed with this game yall

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It's so damn wierd to be done with school for the next three months because I was preparing for the next big thing basically since December last year and I was so busy with in all parts of my life since September last year like what the hell do I even do with all my free time now??

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How do fanfic writers feel knowing that people might have been masturbating to their work?

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It's interesting to stop from time to time and realise how much of the discourse (or debate points) on this webbed site are US-centric

Like:

No one can take your organs even if you're dead and don't need them anymore - my country is an organ transplant opt-out, so unless you write a formal letter to the government (or your relatives strongly protest), any of your organs can be automatically passed on to someone else after you die

Criminals should be able to vote - in my country voting is considered a democratic right of every citizen, and there are committees that go to places with people with difficulty reaching the voting room (such as hospitals, prisons or nursing homes)

People under 18 are (not) basically children - we split the upper teen milestones to sexual consent (15yo), driving car with a certified chaperone (17yo) and voting/driving/drinking (18yo), which makes the 18th birthday less of a clear-cut line.

It's always morally correct to ... - until coming to tumblr, I had never been led to consider the morality of anything apart from thought experiments, I'm still baffled at what made you be aware of this at all times

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jonah

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I know I have been shit posting quite a bit. Bear with me for a little longer, I need this for academic research purposes.