Ryuu to Yuusha to Haitatsunin - Vol. 1 Ch. 1 - The Elf, the Wizard, and the Demand Letter

[InfiniteVerisimilitude]

Makes me think of enclosures.

Nevertheless, always be friendly and respectful to support staff and service workers. Don't make their job hell and don't do shit that would put them out of a paycheck. Be pissed off at the people in charge but the poor sod you're taking you anger out on is generally even more of a victim of the system than you are.

Down with wizards! Down with clerics! Down with capitalists and landlords claiming "unproductive" common land!

Side note, the City of London (not to be confused with the city of London) is a fascinating political entity which has enjoyed a privileged status for nearly a millennia, documented from the time of Edward the Confessor around 1000 CE. Its rights are "ancient beyond memory or record" by English common law since they stem from before 1189. One of the three clauses of the Magna Carta still extant in British Common Law specifically calls out the City of London and its privileges (IX. THE City of London shall have all the old Liberties and Customs which it hath been used to have. Moreover We will and grant, that all other Cities, Boroughs, Towns, and the Barons of the Five Ports, as with all other Ports, shall have all their Liberties and free Customs.).

It's an interesting examples of a set of rights and customs being transferred from the oral to the written era and then into the modern one.

 

[Grimmycoffee]

It's a nice look to real life history in a way. Sure, letters and writing are much more dependable when looking for legitimacy, but you can't expect the whole world to just change without any friction.


Also, that's a girl?

 

[Ibri]

But is very much still is a world where might makes right, the city has decided that the area is their territory and you have to have documents they accept to claim otherwise. Guy lived there for generations and now someone powerful decided they want the land. At most collections of humans have become too strong for lone wizards to hold off. (If you are not part of the system but they decide you are bureaucracy is very much might makes right just with more complex rules. Or rather it literally is using your collective might to impose a system of rights on an area.)

 

[Edgekin]

The work ethics of all Skyrim couriers

 

[4V29LN0n]

Not a good first chapter.

 

[angry_noodles]

Interesting concept. Execution perhaps not to my taste- the humor is... a little painful, actually.

But! I really do like the portrayal of both sides. They're both asses. Everyone's an ass. It... it probably is just too real-life to be enjoyable is all. It reads like a political cartoon.

For y'all complaining about the wizard, for the most part I saw where he was coming from more. Sure I don't condone mistreating service workers, but for the rest- it evoked a lot of "former residents of a land get displaced by big new 'civilization' because they didn't keep track of land the same way" cough colonization cough indigenous peoples cough vibes. That's called greed. That's called a government saying "we think we 'own' this land now, so move", not "old man who is a resident in a country and citizen of it hoards his land to be rich and not share with people".

 

[Grimmycoffee]

People complain about it but it's not like they're (the government) is completely baseless. Evidence is very much necessary, especially in this world where literacy spreads like this. Something similar seems to happen with countries that become independent after WW2.

Plus.... claiming an entire mountain for yourself is a pretty big deal.

 

[Miestwin]

This thing, one amongst many, never made sense to me in most Japanese fantasy. They somehow insist on using Japanese monetary values. In a world where gold is much more present as a value indicator, even a currency, who the hell would stamp "100" or even "1000" on a coin or a banknote, instead of "1"?

 

[mq003at]

@Miestwin Asians use banknotes and paper currencies since 7th century, so I found it normal for me.
1000 ratio maybe because of inflation.

 

[Wolfie_Fenri]

Didn't expect that 'bonk'.

 

[Tidel]

However much they pay her, it isn't enough.