Several points to cover!
If I may step in here just briefly as the Rohan Moderator, I would like to comment on the use of the term "Game Owner." I know that term is used widely in BD, but so also is the term "Game Founder." I prefer the latter, which is used with "Game Manager" in The Golden Hall.
Why? Because I do not believe, with experienced gamers in Rohan, that a game is "owned" by the person who runs it or who proposed it. The game is created through the responsible and independent interaction of all the gamers who write it. No gamer "owns" the writing of another gamer.
Fordim's desire to encourage all of us to game actively rather than passively is thoroughly in keeping with this vision of co-operative gaming. I would thus ask that everyone keep in mind that all of you, all the game players, are game owners here.
*puts on other hat as gamer*
Alak, please do not feel your character must become part of the court retinue with the Queen. My use of the tapestry example is in part based upon the role of courtly women in medieval society. The Queen would need a retinue because she will require "ladies in Waiting", attendants, someone to help her manage her daily work and obligations. I had thought it might be a natural for the General's wife to be given the role of "overseer" of the Enemy Queen. as she would also be a way to help Bekah learn about this foreign culture. Bekah, after all, was raised in a culture which banished elves. They were terrifying foreign entities to her when she first arrived. Has she come to know them, understand them, trust them, like them?
Kransha's comment about how he harbours mistrust of Faroz for marrying an enemy raised an interesting question to me. I had assumed that Faroz and Bekah were given to this marriage of alliance by their parents/ ruling monarchs. I had not considered that Faroz had been king during the last war. If the marriage was the will of his father (presumably) why would the General object so strongly to Faroz's accepting it? So, how much older than Bekah is Faroz? and was he king during the last war? Was Kransha's General the military leader during the last war or has he onver the last twenty years risen to this rank?
And, to be honest, as a gamer, I am wondering if all of these questions aren't something which would more interestingly be brought out in game posts rather than in discussion here. Just an idea.
