Recent content by Voryn

Ok, yeah looks like they are basically going to make up despite the reservations of the brother and they'll act like he'd just had a light scuffle with the husband and after maybe a bit of back and forth they'll be invited back to the house for some food. The joke is probably going to be the...

I hope the resolution of this conflict isn't going to be a competition to see who can plant rice faster. Hopefully they get back on track next chapter as if they go back into filler then I'm going to have to assume that the brother forgot why he was there and started working a part time job in...

I thought I explained it before but as it effects his sister it effects him (e.g. the foreign or not nature of other parties is irrelevant) and like most of the people who've talked about it in this thread so far he most likely is simply imposing his own natural response without really thinking...

No, you don't. It is something to be expected with societies that are aristocratic monarchies however, or indeed any societies which are largely decentralised and based on family structures. I wasn't particularly making value judgments other than my belief that liberal societies aren't any...

I'd recommend the book 'The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages' by Katherine Harvey as a source on what I've been talking about, Ruth Goodman also has excellent social histories on Tudor and Victorian England, 'The Rise of Respectable Society: A Social History of Victorian Britain' by F. M...

If the offence was involving strangers then they likely won't have intervened (though they likely wouldn't have anyway due to it being someone else's family matter, this is pathological in Asian cultures but Europeans never had the same view of intervention so long as it was under the law, was...

I'm just happy that something is happening, the fact that they had those two sitting in the wings the whole time as very little in terms of plot progression was happening was getting on my nerves. The pregnancy happening at the same time probably means that something lit a fire under the author...

Yeah, that's probably the authors intention but we'll see. Certainly from the perspective of a fantasy world they are justified in their actions however and holding them to very westerncentric standards is weird and the fact basically the entire thread is pearl clutching was annoying me. Plenty...

People in here are so far being quite unreasonable, I know that the main characters are the ones you naturally are the most accustomed to and thus empathise with but there is slightly more going on. Think of it from the perspective of their moral standards. Even if it is a different world...