> AntaeusFeldspar
Polar bear: Wow, someone in a kitchen sliced meat thinly. Obviously, anyone who is able to slice meat thinly must be a combat monster against whom I should test my martial skills.
Me: WTF WTF are you smoking polar bear do you have a chemical imbalance do you really think skill in slicing unmoving lumps of cured meat translates into battle prowess
*pant pant pant*
Seriously, I was willing to roll with all the video game logic, but the idea that a trained knight would automatically regard someone who can carve meat in a kitchen as a martial peer -- that's the sort of mistake you make when your idea of worldbuilding begins and ends with "wouldn't it be fun for my protagonist or funny if ----??"
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That's cause as explained...
in this World, only Chefs that works for the Noble and Royalty have good knives to carve meat.
You try carving meat with a Dull Knife, tell me how that goes.
Since they also explained when summoned, they have no idea what the word "Kitchen" stand for, meaning they don't even have the concept of this "kitchen" it's literally just fire place and pots an pans like in Medieval age.
So when someone showed a meat that requires sharp knife to be carved, they would think you need a good technique to balance the crappy knife. (which is usually sword techniques) Their swords are probably sharper than knives in this world. That's why the Polar Bear suggested a practice match.
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This is not a "video game logic" but rather realistic world logic, you just have to think out-side of the current modern age and back to Medieval age and you'll easily understand everything.
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BTW, definition for Medieval age "kitchen"
Kitchens, Pantries, Laders and Butteries. In most households, including early castles, cooking was done on an open hearth in the middle of the main living area, to make efficient use of the heat. This was the most common arrangement for most of the middle ages, so the kitchen was combined with the dining hall.
IE: There was no kitchen.